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Data center statistics
Key numbers on the data center market — capex, capacity, pricing, AI demand — each with a source. Free to cite with attribution.
Coloprice figures, computed from our datasets
Each figure is calculated from the Coloprice data files at build time and links to its page and CSV. Quote the number with its date.
1 The Coloprice catalogue lists 6,119 data centers from 2,295 operators in 184 countries.
coloprice.com/data-centers/ · as of
2 1,719 of 6,119 listed facilities publish IT power; together they total 118,664 MW.
coloprice.com/data-centers/ · as of
3 50.7 GW of data center capacity is under construction and 34.6 GW is announced across 590 tracked projects (published capacity only).
coloprice.com/pipeline/ · as of · CSV ↓
4 United States leads the construction pipeline with 33.4 GW under construction across 178 projects.
coloprice.com/pipeline/ · as of · CSV ↓
5 Wholesale colocation ranges from $160 per kW per month in São Paulo to $403 in Singapore across 23 index markets (H2 2025 – Q2 2026).
coloprice.com/index/ · as of · JSON ↓
6 The median wholesale colocation price across 23 index markets is $200 per kW per month (H2 2025 – Q2 2026).
coloprice.com/index/ · as of · JSON ↓
7 NVIDIA H100 on-demand rental runs $1.3–$12.29 per GPU-hour across tracked providers, median $3.9; 10 GPU models tracked.
coloprice.com/gpu/ · as of · JSON ↓
8 NVIDIA GB200 is the most expensive tracked GPU: median $13.25 per GPU-hour on demand, $10.58 on a one-year commitment.
coloprice.com/gpu/ · as of · JSON ↓
9 Chinese BESS tenders average $83/kWh for 4-hour and $104/kWh for 2-hour systems, against a $117/kWh global turnkey benchmark; 19 systems tracked.
coloprice.com/bess/ · as of · JSON ↓
10 Commercial electricity for data centers spans $0.014/kWh in Angola to $0.454/kWh in UK across 126 markets.
coloprice.com/energy/ · as of · CSV ↓
11 61 government and grid-operator restrictions on new data centers are on record in 16 countries; 45 are in force.
coloprice.com/restrictions/ · as of · CSV ↓
12 47 data center tax incentive programs are catalogued across 44 jurisdictions in 9 countries.
coloprice.com/incentives/ · as of · CSV ↓
13 141 data center incidents are documented from 2015 to 2026; the leading cause is power, 23% of cases.
coloprice.com/incidents/ · as of · CSV ↓
14 1,166 facilities hold a third-party tier certificate across 116 countries; India leads with 92.
coloprice.com/tiers/ · as of · CSV ↓
15 Greater Jakarta is the largest metro market by facilities tracked: 118 data centers, 3,510 MW published, 74 operators.
Market figures from primary sources
Market size & capex
16 Global data center capex has been raised to more than $1 trillion in 2026 and is now forecast to surpass $3 trillion annually by 2030 — nearly double Dell'Oro's January 2026 outlook of $1.7 trillion.
17 Cumulative data center investment need for 2025–2030 is estimated at $6.7 trillion, of which $5.2 trillion is for AI capacity.
18 The colocation market is worth $91–104B in 2025 and is projected to reach $165–204B by 2030 (14–16% CAGR).
19 About 100 GW of new data center capacity will be delivered worldwide in 2026–2030, creating roughly $1.2 trillion of real estate value.
Capacity & demand
20 Global data center demand is projected to nearly triple to 219 GW by 2030; ~70% of new demand is AI workloads.
21 AI-ready capacity is set to grow from ~54% of global data center capacity in 2025 (44GW of 82GW) to ~71% by 2030 (156GW of 219GW).
22 North America primary-market vacancy hit a record-low 1.4% in H1 2026; Northern Virginia sits at 0.2%.
23 80.4% of all primary-market data center space under construction is already preleased, up from 74.3% a year earlier.
Pricing
24 North American wholesale colocation for 250–500kW requirements is on pace to exceed $215/kW/month for full-year 2026, up from a H2 2025 record of $196/kW/month, as CBRE raised its outlook on record-low 1.4% vacancy.
25 Ashburn (Northern Virginia) wholesale rates for 10MW+ blocks averaged $173/kW/month (range $160–185) in H1 2026, up just 1.5% YoY — a sharp deceleration from H2 2025's record pace as record-low 0.2% vacancy collided with fewer large deals closing.
26 Singapore is Asia-Pacific's most expensive colocation market at $330–475/kW/month (avg ≈ $403).
27 A retail colocation rack (3–5 kW) in the US typically costs $500–1,500 per month.
Coloprice v1 aggregation
28 H100 on-demand rental spans $1.49–6.98/GPU·h (Q2 2026); 1-year contracts rebounded 40% to $2.35/GPU·h between Oct 2025 and Mar 2026.
Southeast Asia
29 Southeast Asia's data center market will grow from $15.72B (2025) to $35.08B by 2031 (14.32% CAGR).
ResearchAndMarkets, Southeast Asia Data Center Market Landscape 2026-2031
30 Thailand is the region's fastest-growing market: 0.77 GW (2025) to a projected 2.93 GW by 2030 (~30.6% CAGR).
31 Thailand's BOI approved a new record THB 958 billion (~$29B) of investment in May 2026 — six projects, three of them data centers, led by TikTok's $25B expansion.
32 TikTok/ByteDance's approved investment in Thai data centers has grown to roughly $25 billion — the largest project in the country.
33 Johor, Malaysia's data center market is now valued at $39.11B with a pipeline of 8,542 MW and colocation vacancy at just 0.7%; build costs reached $12M/MW.
34 From February 2026 Malaysia restricts new non-AI data centers over grid and water constraints — a window for Thailand and Vietnam.
35 Vietnam has Southeast Asia's cheapest data center construction at $6–8M per MW; a data-localization law takes effect Jan 1, 2026.
Power & energy
36 Big tech has contracted ~9.8 GW of nuclear capacity across 13 deals: Microsoft (Three Mile Island restart, 835 MW), Google (Kairos SMRs, 500 MW), Amazon (X-energy, up to 12 SMRs), Meta (5.2 GW), plus 2.2 GW from other data-center operators.
37 The first 'nuclear electrons' dedicated to AI data centers are expected in 2027 (Crane Clean Energy Center).
38 Grid connection — not floor space — is the binding constraint on new data center supply in every major market.
39 Modern AI halls are designed for 60–130+ kW per rack, making liquid cooling the default for new AI capacity.
Coloprice v1 aggregation
40 Thailand's commercial electricity rate is ~THB 4.20–4.55/kWh (≈ $0.12) — 15–20% above Malaysia and Vietnam. A separate green tariff (UGT2) for large users incl. data centers went live in March 2026 at ~THB 4.56/kWh, requiring a 10-year supply agreement with MEA/PEA.
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