Too Many Bytes And Not Enough Bricks For Datacenters
Register, Wednesday, July 26,2023
The European datacenter industry is facing issues meeting the growing demand for capacity with materials and heavy equipment to build sites in short supply, among other factors.
A report produced by power generator supplier Aggreko [PDF] claims that demand is outstripping supply in the datacenter market, but there are a number of barriers to getting facilities built on schedule, such that the majority of contractors are having to extend timelines in response.
The report cites UK real estate services company Savills which claimed that there is an insufficient pipeline of datacenter development planned in Europe over the next three years to meet the forecast increase in demand. It gauged that more than 3,000 new sites will be needed by the middle of the decade to meet the expected requirements for data storage and processing.