Enhanced on 02/12/2025

451 Research Data Center Knowledge Base

Release notes

The DCKB package now includes additional data points covering details on hyperscalers as well as increasing the data update frequency. This data set is available on Snowflake with an improved data model.

The 451 Research Data Center Knowledge Base is a comprehensive global database encompassing over 12,900+ data center facilities, including Hyperscale, Leased, Crypto, colocation, and wholesale data centers. Spanning 112 countries and 361 markets, this resource captures over 100 data points per facility, offering detailed site-level information from over 2,000 providers.

This dataset provides a current snapshot and historical tracking of facility and market-level capacity and utilization, enabling users to analyze past, present, and future datacenter growth. It facilitates the evaluation of energy supply and demand dynamics, including the impact on energy, ESG, cloud, and critical infrastructure markets. Firms can leverage this data to assess market opportunities, analyze Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) and service provider offerings against peers, identify key data center suppliers in regional markets, and evaluate areas for likely expansion.

This dataset includes:

  • Global Datacenter Location & Ownership: Detailed location, ownership, and size information.
  • Diverse Facility Types & Services: Data on Hyperscale, Leased, Crypto, colocation, and wholesale facilities, including services provided.
  • Capacity & Utilization Data: Quarterly site- and market-level insights into capacity, utilization, and revenue.
  • New Construction & Expansion Tracking: Information on new builds, under-construction facilities, and expansion pipelines.
  • Power & Operational Metrics: Power utilization, operational space, and data center density.
  • Sustainability & Market Analysis: Certifications, environmental ratings, and regional market segmentation for analysis.

Vendor information

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  • Primary Entity TypePhysical Asset
  • Coverage Count12,900
  • Geographic CoverageGlobal
  • Industry CoverageEnergy and Utilities, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
  • History Initiated2010
  • Earliest Significant Coverage2010
  • Point In TimeNo
  • Data Source451 Research Datacenter Channel Team
  • Field Count100s
  • Delivery ChannelCloud, Desktop, Feed
  • Delivery PlatformS&P Capital IQ Pro, Snowflake, Xpressfeed™
  • Reporting FrequencyQuarterly
  • Dataset LatencyAd Hoc
  • Dataset Size (GB)2


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