Data Center

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.

Executive Summary


Wholesale colocation data centers across the primary U.S. markets of Northern Virginia, Dallas, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Phoenix, New York Tri-State and Atl

New data centre supply in the four tier I Asia Pacific markets (Greater Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR) totalled 305MW in H2 2021. This marked the highest total for a six-month period since CBRE’s records began.

Demand for data centers by global investors remained robust in the second half of 2021, with record-breaking M&A activity.

Data centers are at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as the digital economy.

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.

Industry experts discuss robotics, future of human factors and realities of near-term automation.

As humans become less involved in data centers, QHSE management becomes more critical.

Mitigating the unique risks of executing projects in a live data center.

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.

Explore ways to achieve more sustainable data center operations from CBRE’s expert teams, which manage more than 800 data centers globally.

Gender, ethnic and generational talent strategies for comprehensive talent planning.

The computational demands being placed on data centers is increasing exponentially, putting pressure on operators to “future-ready” their assets.