The Florida Legislature and Governor put the final signatures on its tax package (HB 7109) that includes a sales and use tax exemption for property and equipment and electricity for qualifying data centers. With this legislation, Florida becomes the 27th state to have data center tax exemptions and is one of only four states to … Read more
VC investment activity jumped in 2014 by 53% over 2013, growing from $45 billion to $69 billion. The market has sustained momentum with $79 billion in 2015 and $71 billion in 2016. 2017 activity is anyone’s guess at this early stage. Software companies are some of the biggest consumers of data centers. For Q1 2017, … Read more
2016 wrapped up for the data center Big 6 public providers (EQIX, DLR, CONE, DFT, QTS and COR) with stable to modestly improving price dynamics, and a supply/demand balance in most markets. While pricing has been stable for the last few years, it is the industry’s continued commitment to underwriting deals based on sustaining ROIC … Read more
Aggregate development CAPEX over the next four years is estimated at $20 billion. While the top 10 global investment banks will capture the lions share of the credit/debt financing sought by these companies, the remainder of the data center market will need capital too.
In today’s world an Infrastructure Demand Response (iDR) approach to data center capacity management of application workloads and physical infrastructure is key to cost and risk management. “Demand Response” has been used for decades in the power industry to manage just-in-time power resources to fulfill demand. This approach in the power industry is analogous to … Read more
WiredRE has recently completed an international multi-market assessment for a top 5 international investment bank. Data center market research and advisory for investors, investment banks as well as data center operators or allied industries is a key consulting activity for Wired Real Estate Group. Each assessment includes supply and demand characteristics, pricing dynamics, competitive set … Read more
Colocation services giant Equinix recently purchased land in Silicon Valley for a possible future San Jose data center.
The global containerized data center market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 20.91 percent from 2015 to 2019.
Communications and colocation data center services provider CenturyLink announced mid-July that it now offers around 2.6 million square feet of raised-floor space.
The global colocation market is expected to be worth $51.8 billion by 2020.
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