Report: Silicon Valley and Washington DC Are The Highest Growth U.S. Colocation Markets
In addition, growth in Dallas is also outpacing the national average.
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that six metro areas account for 59% of U.S. retail and wholesale colocation revenues, with New York and Washington DC alone accounting for 30%. Among these six metros Silicon Valley and Washington have seen the strongest revenue growth rate over the last year, with Silicon Valley growing at twice the speed of the national market. Growth in Dallas is also outpacing the national average. Equinix is the market leader in four of those six major metros and would also have been the leader in New York but for Digital Realty’s acquisition of Telx which enabled it to leapfrog Equinix. Digital Realty is also the market leader in the Dallas metro. Other operators that feature strongly in the market share rankings for the six metros include CyrusOne, DuPont Fabros, CenturyLink, Verizon, Coresite, SunGard, NTT, AT&T and Infomart.
The research also shows that New York is the largest metro market for colocation in the world, though it is closely followed by London, Tokyo and Washington DC. In addition to these four, the ranking of the top ten metros in the world for retail and wholesale colocation is rounded out by Silicon Valley, Dallas, Singapore, Frankfurt, Chicago and Los Angeles.