The installed base of operational data centres is set to exceed 1,200 by 2026, according to research from Synergy.

The research was based on analysis of the data centre footprint and plans of 19 of the world's largest cloud and internet service firms, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.

There are currently 314 future new hyperscale data centres in the pipeline according to the research and there were 728 hyperscale data centres in operation globally at the end of 2021.

The US currently accounts for almost 40 per cent of operational hyperscale data centres and half of all worldwide capacity according to the research.

In addition, the US is also the country with the most data centres in the future pipeline, followed by China, Ireland, India, Spain, Israel, Canada, Italy, Australia, and the UK.

The research predicted that the installed base of operational data centres will continue to grow at double-digit percentage rates each year, and the capacity of those data centres will grow even more rapidly as the average size increases and older facilities are expanded.

"The future looks bright for hyperscale operators, with double-digit annual growth in total revenues supported in large part by cloud revenues that will be growing in the 20-30 per year range,” said John Dinsdale, a chief analyst at Synergy Research Group. “This in turn will drive strong growth in capex generally and in data centre spending specifically."

"While we see the geographic distribution, build-versus-lease distribution, average data centre size, and spending mix by data centre component all continuing to evolve, we predict continued rapid growth throughout the hyperscale data centre ecosystem.”

He added: “Companies who can successfully target that ecosystem with their product offerings have plenty of reasons for optimism."

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