Worldwide and U.S. Datacenter Installation Census and Construction Forecast, 2024–2028
This IDC study reveals significant growth in the datacenter industry, driven by digital transformation and the rise of generative AI, with a shift in measuring datacenter capacity from square footage to power. This growth is accompanied by challenges such as resource scarcity and rising costs, yet offers opportunities for innovation, particularly in sustainability and hybrid multicloud architectures. The forecast anticipates a compound annual growth rate of 12.6% in installed IT datacenter capacity from 2023 to 2028, highlighting the industry's rapid expansion and growing power density."Datacenters are the backbone of the digital economy and will benefit from continued investment in digital transformation, cloud technologies, and artificial intelligence." — Sean Graham, research director, Cloud to Edge Datacenter Trends
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Sustainability
- Hybrid Multicloud
- Expertise in New Technology
- Supply Chain
- Market Forecast
- 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
- Related Research
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