Dallas And Washington DC Now The Highest Growth U.S. Colocation Markets
Washington DC overtook New York in Q416.
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the top ten metro areas accounted for 74% of U.S. retail and wholesale colocation revenues in 2016, with New York and Washington DC alone accounting for 31%. Among these top metro areas, Dallas and Washington have seen the strongest revenue growth rate over the last year, closely followed by Chicago. Dallas and Washington both grew at almost twice the rate of the national market. It is notable that the revenue growth rate in Chicago, Dallas, and Washington all picked up strongly in 2016, while the growth rate in Silicon Valley actually cooled down. Across the ten metros Digital Realty is the leader in five, helped by its acquisition of Telx, while Equinix is the market leader in three. Other operators that feature strongly in the market share rankings for these metros include CyrusOne, DuPont Fabros, QTS, CenturyLink, Verizon, Coresite, SunGard, NTT, AT&T, and Infomart.