Cushman & Wakefield has identified the most popular emerging locations for data centers in Europe — this group of cities includes Berlin, Reykjavik, Oslo, Warsaw, Zurich, Milan, Vienna, Madrid and Prague.
The European data center market has long been dominated by the so-called FLAP-D markets, which include Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin, i.e., cities with extensive business and financial sectors. FLAP-D markets are still key to the data center ecosystem as entry points — they are building facilities with a capacity of more than 500 megawatts (MW) — but interest in them is currently adversely affected by physical constraints, including a lack of energy to power data centers, limited supply and the need to operate closer to regional users.
Due to these constraints and in response to operators’ demand from customers across the region, new locations have emerged in the data center market. The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated this trend
