Cloud Data Centers Get Bigger, Denser Amid AI Building Boom
CIODIVE, Friday, March 21st, 2025
AWS, Microsoft and Google accounted for 59% of all hyperscale compute capacity as the number of large facilities grew to more than 1,100 last year, Synergy Research Group said.
The number of data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to 1,136 last year, up from 992 at the end of 2023, according to research published Thursday by Synergy Research Group.
The companies with the broadest data center footprint are the leading cloud providers - Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Together, the three now account for 59% of all hyperscale data center capacity, SRG said.
'The average size of newly opened data centers has increased recently and will continue to increase, meaning that total hyperscale data center capacity increases even more rapidly than the data center count,' John Dinsdale, SRG chief analyst, said in an email.