Data center investments will continue to grow in Asia Pacific, with investor interest rising in the emerging markets of China, India and Indonesia, according to JLL. With a growing demand for data storage, many companies are looking to rent a share of facilities, rather than own a center. This demand means that Asia Pacific revenue for shared or colocation data centers is expected to overtake the United States, rising to 40 percent of global share by 2020.

Driven by the region’s rapid urban population growth and adoption of e-commerce, Asia Pacific is experiencing a surge in data generated from various digital products and services. To cope with the amount of information, businesses are shifting toward storing their data on cloud services. Leading cloud providers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba are competing to add cloud zones across the region, as Asia Pacific’s spend on public cloud services may hit $15 billion in 2018.

“As the cloud market mature