Expert Paints Picture of Steady Worldwide Growth for Colocation Providers
The first half of 2017 alone saw $18.2 billion invested in Mergers & Acquisitions, up from $7.6 billion in all of 2016 and $6 billion in 2015. Sounds like the very definition of a hot market, doesn’t it? Colocation Growth – No White Elephants Those numbers came from a presentation by Andrew Jay, Head of Data Centre Solutions for Europe, the Middle East and Asia for the commercial real estate firm CBRE. His talk at the recent Schneider Electric International Colo Club meeting in London painted a clear picture of a growing colocation market with lots of opportunity. The biggest market by far is the U.S., particularly Northern Virginia, with 949MW of data center capacity, followed by Dallas/Fort Worth (360MW), Chicago (293MW), and Silicon Valley (264MW). In addition to those four, CBRE also tracks markets in Phoenix, Atlanta and Seattle. Altogether, the markets account for 2700MW of capacity. The four largest markets in Europe – London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris – coll...