Collaborative Study Quantifies UK Data Center Market Size at 81 Million Sq Ft
As one of the largest global markets, it is estimated that the UK houses up to 7.6 million square meters (81m sq ft ) of data center space—an area equivalent to 14 U.S. Pentagons (one of the world’s largest buildings at 6 m sq ft) or 900 football pitches.
In order to estimate the UK data center market size, DatacenterDynamics Research used data from the Global Data Center Industry Census 2011, and built a predictive model to determine IT-based demand for data centers in a given location and the context in which they operate. Other input factors such as organizational size and IT dependence were also considered, and taken together with known and observed information about data centers and data center portfolios.