Worldwide and U.S. Datacenter Installation Census and Construction Forecast, 2024–2028

IDC Market Forecast Figure

• Figure: Worldwide Installed IT Datacenter Capacity Snapshot

Executive Summary

• Introduction

Advice for Technology Suppliers

• Sustainability

• Hybrid Multicloud

• Expertise in New Technology

• Supply Chain

Market Forecast

• Table: Worldwide Installed IT Power by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: Worldwide New Datacenter in Production by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: Worldwide New Datacenter Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: Worldwide New Build Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: Worldwide Retrofit Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: Worldwide New Build and Retrofit Capacity Spending by Segment, 2019–2028 ($M)

• Table: U.S. Installed Datacenter Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028 (MW)

• Table: U.S. Installed Datacenters in Operation by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: U.S. New Build Datacenter Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028 (MW)

• Table: U.S. New Datacenter Builds by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: U.S. Retrofit Capacity by Segment, 2019–2028

• Table: U.S. New Build and Retrofit Spending by Segment, 2019–2028 ($M)

Market Context

• Drivers and Inhibitors

• Drivers

• GenAI

• Digital Transformation

• Future of Work

• Inhibitors

• Power Scarcity

• Supply Chain

• Significant Market Developments

• Blackwell Platform

• Liquid Cooling

• Microgrids

• Nuclear Power

• Location Strategies

• Changes from Prior Forecast

Market Definition

• Service Providers

• Hyperscalers

• Cloud Service Providers

• Shared Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers

• Cloud Software-as-a-Service Providers

• Digital Service Providers

• Communication Services

• Dedicated Hosting and Managed Services

• Colocation Site

• Enterprise

• Core Versus Edge

• Core — The "Central Datacenter"

• Edge — Everything Between the "Core" and "Endpoints"

Methodology

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