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Global Data Center Trends 2024

A worldwide power shortage is limiting the global data center market’s growth and fueling price increases. AI is projected to drive future demand.
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Brief | Creating Resilience
Adequate Power Availability Remains Top Priority for Data Center Developers
September 9, 2024
The cost, source and available supply of electricity have become data center developers’ prime considerations for site selection.
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Article | Adaptive Spaces
Five Considerations to Prepare Data Centers for High-Density Computing
May 13, 2024
Explore five tips to successfully deploy high-density computing in legacy data centers
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Data Center Asking Rents Surged as Much as 54% Over Eight Months
March 28, 2024
Average asking rental rates in key North American data center markets increased by 20% to 54% over the last eight months.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Investing in the Future: Fiber Infrastructure is Critical for a Digital World
December 12, 2023
Robust fiber networks are at the center of today’s data center market, helping to power streaming services, autonomous vehicles, AI and other data-intensive applications, and improving the utility of many types of real estate, from offices to warehouses to shopping centers.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
High Demand, Power Availability Delays Lead to Record Data Center Construction
September 14, 2023
Data center construction activity across U.S. primary markets in H1 2023 increased by 25% year-over-year to a record-high capacity of 2,288 megawatts (MW), as developers responded to greater demand.
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Brief | Creating Resilience
Transmission solutions needed for data centers’ renewable energy transition
May 22, 2023
Plans to transition U.S. data centers to renewable energy power sources are impeded by current utility transmission infrastructure.
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Brief | Adaptive Spaces
Artificial Intelligence: What is its future and how will it impact data center markets?
March 17, 2023
As Fortune 500 companies hunt for the next frontier of business growth, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken center stage.
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Article | Creating Resilience
Alternative Data Center Solutions for Sustainable Water
December 14, 2022
In 2020 and 2021, major data center investors and operators committed to replenish more water than they consume by 2030 through improved water recycling, less water-intensive cooling methods and other strategies.
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Viewpoint | Creating Resilience
The Digital Revolution’s Hidden Challenge: Power-Hungry Data Centers
November 30, 2021
Data centers are at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as the digital economy.
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Podcast | Creating Resilience
Electric Slide: The Increasing Value and Efficiency of Data Centers
October 18, 2021
Data Centers are playing an increasingly integral role in the digital economy. Sureel Choksi, CEO of Vantage Data Centers, and CBRE’s Pat Lynch join Spencer Levy to discuss innovations that increase data center reliability, operational efficiency and value, including new forms of energy management.
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Article | Adaptive Spaces
From Dinosaur to Digital: A Practical Guide to Your Data Center Automation Journey
August 9, 2021
CBRE’s experts provide clients with a clear path for how to get their data centers from their operational realities today to the automated tomorrow.
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Article | Adaptive Spaces
Integrating QHSE Best Practices into Your Data Center Strategy
August 9, 2021
As humans become less involved in data centers, QHSE management becomes more critical.
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Article | Creating Resilience
The Greener Path: Operational Strategies for a More Sustainable Data Center
August 9, 2021
Explore ways to achieve more sustainable data center operations from CBRE’s expert teams, which manage more than 800 data centers globally.
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