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Colocation providers able to provide the highest rack densities and access to liquid cooling will now have the upper hand in the market for data center space .
Between them they operate over 700 data centers and have over 100 construction projects underway as covered in Omdia ’ s Data Center Building Tracker – 1H23 .
These three companies represent 33 % of the total 2022 revenue of $ 41.6 billion , according to Omdia ’ s Colocation Services Tracker – 2023 .
Not all data centers can handle AI or HPC equipment , but these companies and numerous other noteworthy colocation service providers have been anticipating this emerging growth trend .
Depending on how the acceleration in AI hardware deployments materializes , colocation data center revenue could see a significant boost over the next few years .
Data centers built over the last couple of years , and many of those under construction , have been designed and architected to accommodate these high-power density equipment racks .
These data center design and architecture properties include high-density power distribution management and precision cooling for thermal management to protect servers .
In some cases , colocation customers require direct to chip liquid cooling which requires special data center plumbing designs to provide customers access to a liquid cooling loop or the option to install immersion cooling tanks where the hottest servers are sunken into a bath of non-conductive fluids .
Howard said : “ Achieving these advanced data center operating characteristics are not for the faint of heart , or those companies with an aversion to high capital expenditures ( CAPEX ). Colocation companies like Equinix , Digital Realty , NTT GDC , Flexential , DataBank , Compass , Aligned , Iron Mountain and a host of others are in the business of taking that capital risk to build data centers so that enterprises and cloud service providers don ’ t have to . p
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