Japan Datacenter Census Forecast, 2023-2027

This study forecasts the number of datacenter sites, total floor space, DC space footprint, and power capacity (IT load) in Japan by datacenter size, location region, and year of building completion."The rush to build hyperscale DCs will continue for the foreseeable future and is gradually taking on the appearance of large-scale real estate development," says Mimei Ito, research manager, Software and Services, IDC Japan.

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Market Forecast

• Japan Datacenter Number of Sites, Total Floor Space, Datacenter Space Footprint, and Power Capacity Forecast
• Number of Sites, Total Floor Space, DC Space Footprint, and Power Capacity Forecast in Japan
  • Forecast by Scale
  • Forecast by Location
  • Forecast by Age of Completion
  • Forecast by Facility Operator Type
  • Hyperscale Datacenter Capacity Forecast
• Japan Enterprise Datacenter Number of Sites, Total Floor Space, DC Space Footprint, and Power Capacity Forecast
  • Forecast by Scale
  • Forecast by Location
  • Forecast by Age of Completion

Market Context

• Drivers and inhibitors
  • Drivers
    • Hyperscale Datacenter Expansion by Cloud SPs
    • Inflow of Real Estate Investment Money
  • Inhibitors
    • Slowdown in Large-Office Building Developments in Tokyo and Osaka City Centers
    • Reduction in Infrastructure Scale for Routine Business Systems
• Significant Market Developments
  • Trends in New Construction and Expansion of Commercial DCs
  • Possibility of Decentralization of Commercial Datacenters to Rural Areas
• Changes from Prior Forecast

Market definition

• Datacenter Definition
• Installation-Based Definition
• Number of Sites Definition
• Definition of Total Floor Space
• Definition of Datacenter Space
• Definition of Power Capacity
• Definition of Location
• Definition of Year Completed
• Definition of Facility Operator Type (Business Datacenter Only)
• Datacenter Service Definition
  • (1) Collocation
  • (2) Hosting

Methodology

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