Silicon Valley Named No. 2 Market for Data Centers

<p>Silicon Valley is the No&period; 2 market in the country for data centers&comma; tied with Singapore and behind Northern Virginia according to a study by real estate services firm Cushman &amp&semi; Wakefield&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cushmanwakefield&period;com&sol;en&sol;insights&sol;global-data-center-market-comparison">2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison is <&sol;a>the third edition of this annual study which identifies and ranks the top data center markets globally and covers key emerging trends in the sector&period; For 2022&comma; this report has been expanded to 55 global markets&comma; including 1&comma;333 data centers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Cushman &amp&semi; Wakefield&comma; Silicon Valley ranks high despite the lack of available land for construction while Singapore has had a moratorium on data center construction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The changes that began throughout 2020 with companies and government agencies alike moving to the cloud or determining their hybrid IT strategy became permanent during 2021&comma;” said Kevin Imboden&comma; Cushman &amp&semi; Wakefield’s Director of Research for the Data Center Advisory Group&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Major cloud service providers continue to battle for market share in large and small markets alike&comma; with an ever-growing number of markets becoming hubs&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The study shows that construction totals continue to grow globally&comma; with 4&period;1 gigawatts &lpar;GW&rpar; currently underway in the markets covered&comma; up from 2&period;9 GW in the previous study and 1&period;6 GW in the year before that&period; The largest clients continue to require larger builds&comma; with 100 megawatt campuses becoming increasingly common&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cushman &amp&semi; Wakefield assessed data center markets across the globe within 13 different categories&comma; including fiber connectivity&comma; market size&comma; cloud availability&comma; and more to determine the top overall markets as well as the top performers in each of the 13 categories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Top 10 Data Center Markets<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"table-0" class&equals;"bw-release-table-js">&NewLine;<table class&equals;"bwtablemarginb bwblockalignl bwwidth100" cellspacing&equals;"0">&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"bwwidth10" colspan&equals;"1" rowspan&equals;"1"><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td class&equals;"bwvertalignt bwpadl0 bwwidth31" colspan&equals;"1" rowspan&equals;"1">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"bwcellpmargin"><b>1&period; 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