451 Research’s Datacenter KnowledgeBase regularly looks at global data center markets to shed light on the current and future state of the industry. Instead of just looking at the overall size of the market per city, 451 Research took a more nuanced approach and identified the top five cities for each of these categories:
Sliced this way, 17 cities appear in the top five. Most only rank for one category, but five markets make multiple appearances:
In the report, 451 Research dives a bit further into each criterion, exploring why certain markets appeared and what that might actually mean for the market.
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