Project Insight - Global Data Center Construction Projects (Q3 2025)

This report provides a detailed analysis of data center construction projects globally, based on projects tracked by GlobalData.

GlobalData is currently tracking a global pipeline of large-scale data center projects with a total value of $157.8 billion. The pipeline of projects includes those with a value above $25 million, from pre-planning through to execution stages. The pipeline of projects is levelled at 36% in the pre-execution and execution stages, and 64% in the early stages of pre-planning and planning. North America is the dominant region, with a data center project pipeline totalling $800.7 billion, of which $159.9 billion relates to projects already in the execution stage. Major US hyperscalers, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, continue to invest substantially in hyperscale facilities and the provision of cloud services. Meanwhile the increased need for localised data center infrastructure to support latency-sensitive applications has driven increased investment in "edge" data centers. By the middle of the decade, most enterprise-generated data will be created and processed in remote data centers or the cloud. The next few years will also see increased mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, with special purpose acquisition companies already being created to buy up data centers. Western Europe's pipeline amounts to $351.7 billion, considerably ahead of North-East Asia with $149.5 billion

Scope

• The report provides analysis based on GlobalData's construction projects showing total project values and analysis by stage and funding for all regions. The top 20 projects per region are listed giving country, stage, value of projects. Ranked listings of the key operators for the sector are also provided showing the leading contractors, consulting engineers and project owners.

Reasons to Buy

• Gain insight into the development of the data center construction sector.
• Assess all major projects by value, start date, scope and stage of development globally, for the regions to support business development activities.
• Plan campaigns by country based on specific project opportunities and align resources to the most attractive markets.