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Global investment in data centers more than doubled in 2021 with similar trajectory this year
Research - JUNE 13, 2022

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Global investment in data centers more than doubled in 2021 with similar trajectory this year

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The total investment in global data center infrastructure more than doubled last year, from $24.4 billion in 2020 to $53.8 billion in 2021. The total number of data center transactions increased by 64 percent in the same period, from 69 in 2020 to 113 in 2021, according to DLA Piper in its report,The meteoric rise of the data center: Key drivers behind global demand. The report surveys 100 senior executives from infrastructure, equity and debt-provider firms and data center developers from around the world and follows a similar report carried out in 2020.

The extraordinary growth is expected to continue this year supported by the fact that there have been 41 transactions, worth $21.3 billion, for the current year to June 7, 2022. This is an increase of more than 100 percent compared to the same period last year and almost as much as the combined annual value seen in both 2019 and 2020. According to the report, 45 percent of developers, 56 percent of debt providers, a

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