Global recovery in Data center markets

The 2008 recession has not only affected the server market, but also slowed the development trend of data center network construction. Although the server market has started to rebound at the end of 2009 and has returned to its pre-crisis level in 2011, it will take some time for the data center to recover. After all, the server does not mean the whole of the data center, the data center is a brick and cement construction of the physical building, and at least now the parts of prefabricated modules have begun to pick up.

Google to deploy three new data centers in Asia-Pacific region

Although Google is one of the world's largest data center operators, it is not having an unlimited supply of cash and electricity, and recently, the company revealed to the Wall Street Journal that Google will invest $200 million in deploying 3 data centers, mainly for search services and other Internet services.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google plans to build three data centers in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has bought land in the three areas. It has bought a 2.45 hectares of land in Singapore's Jurong West, with 15 hectares and 2.7 hectares in the area of Changhua County and Hong Kong Kowloon respectively. With three data centers covering a total area of over 20 hectares, Google expects the three data centers to operate in one to two years.

It will be the first time Google has built its own data center in the Asia-Pacific region. The company currently has its own data centers in the US and Europe. Tajmeadows, the company's Asia policy communications manager, says the number of users and Internet use in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. He said Asia also has a large number of new Internet users, and the company hopes to better serve them.

Google has 15 offices and thousands of employees in the Asia Pacific region, including the Singapore office. Data centers are usually made up of computer communications equipment and are equipped with security systems and power off support systems. "Setting up a data center in Singapore will help users in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia to gain faster and more reliable access to Google's services," Google said. Internet users in Asia are growing more quickly than anywhere else in the world, so setting up a data center here is Google's next major investment in the region. ”

Google has just completed two data centers in Europe, one in Belgium using an air cooled data center, the other in Finland, on the basis of an old paper mill and using seawater to cool it. Google already has six separate data centers in the United States, which are built at different times. The six data centers are located in Oregon State, Iowa, Georgia State, North Carolina State, South Carolina State and Oklahoma – areas that share the common features of cheap power supply and convenient power lines.

The global recovery of the data center market

It has been reported that, 3 years after the recession, global data center construction levels will return to their pre-recession levels, with a forecast of $45 billion trillion in the 2011 data Center market.

The data center can be seen as a concrete glass house filled with servers and network facilities, and it is these concrete glass houses that give people all the information they need to live. To understand the trends in data centers, Datacenterdynamics, the world's largest data center conference provider, surveyed and collected information on 770 server racks in more than 100,000 infrastructures worldwide. These surveys were completed between June and July of this year. According to the survey report, data center vendors want to add 7% more infrastructure (about 7,000 new data centers) next year, with a 15% increase in racks (about 1.2 million new racks), and an increase in power by 19% (about 37 MW). In 2011 the entire data center market was invested at $30 billion trillion, which grew to 35 billion dollars next year.

The growth in the data center market and the total amount of input are very different. In the data center market input, Turkey ranked first, from 2011 to 2012, its data center capacity will increase by 60%. The next fastest-growing market was Brazil (45%), Colombia (up to 40%), Argentina (up to 36%), Russia (29%) and China (28%). The eastern U.S. market growth is expected to be only 13%, the middle of 12%, while the West only 3%. UK Data center growth is at the bottom of the line, only 5%.

Source: DatacenterDynamics2011 Annual Data Center Industry Survey Report

In the data centre market, the total amount of input is almost the opposite. The United States is ranked first, and the entire data center market will reach $9.3 billion trillion, followed by Britain's $3.35 billion trillion. China ranked third, with a projected investment of $3.1 billion trillion in 2012. The next largest market-invested countries were Germany's $2.6 billion trillion, Australia's $2.45 billion trillion and Brazil's $2.15 billion trillion, and the market investment in France, Italy, Canada and Southeast Asia was around 1.9 billion dollars. (Source: Engine room 360)