Project Insight: Global Data Center Construction Projects (Q2 2026)
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Explore the global data center construction market with GlobalData’s in-depth industry analysis covering project pipelines, hyperscale infrastructure growth, regional investment trends, construction activity, funding analysis, and major data center development opportunities. Understand how accelerating AI adoption, cloud computing demand, digital transformation, and hyperscale expansion are driving a $2.5 trillion global pipeline of large-scale data center projects across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The report provides detailed insight into project stages, regional construction activity, leading contractors, consulting engineers, project owners, and funding trends shaping the global data center infrastructure sector. Built on GlobalData’s proprietary construction intelligence and supported by expert analysis, this report helps contractors, investors, developers, suppliers, and strategy teams benchmark market trends, identify high-value opportunities, and support long-term business planning across the rapidly expanding data center construction industry.
This report provides a detailed analysis of data center construction projects globally, based on projects tracked by GlobalData.
GlobalData is currently tracking a global pipeline of large-scale data center projects with a total value of $2.9 trillion. The pipeline of projects includes those with a value above $25 million, from pre-planning through to execution stages. The pipeline of projects is levelled at 37% in the pre-execution and execution stages, and 63% in the early stages of pre-planning and planning. Americas is the dominant region, with a data center project pipeline totalling $1.6 trillion, of which $445 billion relates to projects already in the execution stage. Europe’s pipeline amounts to $602 billion, considerably ahead of North-East Asia with $205 billion.
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The report provides analysis based on GlobalData's construction projects showing total project values and analysis by stage and funding for all regions. The top 20 projects per region are listed giving country, stage, value of projects. Ranked listings of the key operators for the sector are also provided showing the leading contractors, consulting engineers and project owners.
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Gain insight into the development of the data center construction sector.
Assess all major projects by value, start date, scope and stage of development globally, for the regions to support business development activities.
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