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Regions · updated 31 Oct 2026
Data centres and AI infrastructure by region
China briefing
Asia Pacific briefing
Europe and UK briefing
North America briefing
Middle East and Africa briefing
Latin America briefing
Where AI computing and data centre capacity is being built, who is building it and the policy that shapes it, region by region. Each regional briefing starts with a short summary. Country detail stays on each market profile.
Six regional briefings
What we track in each region
Counts of our own records that name a country in each region. Tracked coverage, not the size of each market.
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| Region | Market profiles | Projects | Cloud regions | Policy records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Asia Pacific | 5 | 10 | 9 | 3 |
| Europe and UK | 14 | 58 | 19 | 11 |
| North America | 3 | 26 | 28 | 5 |
| Middle East and Africa | 8 | 26 | 11 | 1 |
| Latin America and other markets | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
China Full briefing
- China's intelligent (AI) computing capacity reached 2,592 EFLOPS at the end of September 2026, up 146% in a year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
- The IEA puts China at 25% of world data centre electricity use in 2024, second to the United States at 45%, and expects Chinese data centre electricity use to grow by about 175 TWh by 2030 (forecast).
- Alibaba (RMB67.7 billion) and Tencent (RMB52.8 billion) both filed capital expenditure for the June 2026 quarter that was up 75% or more on a year earlier, much of it for AI infrastructure.
Read the China briefing: capacity, companies, policy, chips, AI models, cooling and reported developments. Market records: China market profile.
Asia Pacific Full briefing
- Johor, which borders Singapore, had 20 operating data centres using about 920 MW of electricity in March 2026, and 5,628 MW of approved capacity across 28 projects, according to the Johor state government.
- India's operational capacity reached nearly 1.8 GW in H1 2026, up from around 400 MW in 2019, with a pipeline of nearly 3.9 GW, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
- Singapore still rations new capacity: in August 2026 EDB and IMDA provisionally allocated 200 MW to four operators under DC-CFA2.
Read the Asia Pacific briefing: Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Johor, India, Australia and Batam, with charts and every figure labelled Live, Confirmed or Projected.
Europe and UK Full briefing
- The UK had about 1.8 GW of installed data centre capacity at the end of 2025. Developers plan 5.7 GW more by 2030, but only 13% of that was under construction in September 2026 (Science Works).
- Ireland's data centres used 23% of the country's metered electricity in 2025, the highest share in Europe, so new sites must now bring their own dispatchable power (CSO, CRU).
- Germany, the biggest market in continental Europe, had about 2,980 MW of IT load in 2025 and a federal strategy that aims to at least double it by 2030.
Read the UK and Europe briefing: the UK pipeline and grid queue, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, the Nordics and Poland, with interactive charts.
North America Full briefing
- The eight primary North American markets held a record 10,903 MW of data centre capacity in mid 2026, up 33.7% in a year, yet vacancy fell to a record low of 1.4% (CBRE).
- Builders are racing: 7,481 MW was under construction in those markets, more than 80% already preleased, and Atlanta overtook Northern Virginia as the busiest construction market for the first time (CBRE).
- US spending on data centre buildings reached an annual rate of US$85.0bn in August 2026, 73% more than a year earlier, and that excludes the servers inside (US Census Bureau).
Read the US and North America briefing: capacity by market, construction, Texas and ERCOT, PJM capacity prices, Alberta and Mexico, with interactive charts.
Middle East and Africa Full briefing
- The Middle East is the fastest-growing data centre region in Knight Frank's 2026 forecast: live IT capacity from 1,195 MW in 2025 to 3,157 MW in 2027, led by first phases of gigawatt campuses in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
- Saudi Arabia's official operational capacity reached 467 MW in Q1 2026, almost seven times the 68 MW of 2021 (MCIT).
- Stargate UAE, the 1 GW first phase of Abu Dhabi's planned 5 GW AI campus, targets its first 200 MW in Q4 2026. It is not yet announced as in service.
Read the Middle East and Africa briefing: Stargate UAE, Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN, the AWS drone strikes, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, with interactive charts. Explainer: the AWS UAE and Bahrain data centre attacks.
Latin America Full briefing
- Brazil is the giant of the region's pipeline: data centre projects have asked for 38 GW of grid access (Ministry of Mines and Energy, June 2026), and the grid operator ONS has accepted 7,040 MW of them. Requests are not capacity.
- Brazil enacted the Redata tax regime on 15 September 2026, with conditions on clean power, water use and serving the domestic market. The rules that make it usable are still to come.
- The biggest single build is Omnia's campus for ByteDance (TikTok) at Pecém, Ceará: 300 MW per phase, first module due in July 2027, and a court challenge from federal prosecutors.
Read the Latin America briefing: Brazil's grid queue and Redata law, the TikTok campus at Pecém, Mexico's Querétaro cluster and Chile's capacity outlook, with an interactive chart.
Rest of Asia Pacific
Read the Asia Pacific briefing. Country records stay on these 5 market profiles.
- AustraliaIn Australia AEMO reports that about 165 data centres used about 5 TWh in FY2026, around 3% of operational consumption in the National Electricity Market, and expects strong growth.
- IndiaIn India Cushman & Wakefield reports nearly 1.8 GW of operational capacity and nearly 3.9 GW of pipeline in H1 2026.
- JapanFor Japan the IEA expects Japanese data centre electricity use to grow by about 15 TWh between 2024 and 2030.
- MalaysiaMalaysia, led by Johor, has become one of Asia's fastest-growing data centre markets.
- SingaporeSingapore is a mature, land and power constrained hub that rations new capacity.
Europe and UK
Read the UK and Europe briefing. Country records stay on these 14 market profiles.
AustriaIn Austria Microsoft opened its Austrian cloud region in 2025 with three data centres in Lower Austria.
BelgiumIn Belgium Google runs a data centre campus at Saint-Ghislain in Wallonia and in October 2025 announced EUR 5 billion for 2026 and 2027 to expand it.
DenmarkIn Denmark Microsoft opened Denmark East in March 2026 with campuses in Høje Taastrup, Køge and Roskilde, and Køge expects surplus heat for district heating.
FinlandIn Finland Fingrid reported in August 2026 nearly 5 GW of planned final capacity from data centre projects with signed connection agreements.- FranceIn France RTE signed an accelerated connection contract in January 2026 for the Campus IA site at Fouju, with 240 MW by the end of 2027 and 700 MW before the end of 2029.
- GermanyGermany is the largest data centre market in continental Europe, centred on Frankfurt/Rhein-Main.
- IrelandIreland has the highest data centre share of national electricity use among the focus countries.
- ItalyIn Italy the Italian Datacenter Association puts commercial live IT capacity at about 460 MW in 2025 and forecasts 2.0 to 2.3 GW by 2031.
- NetherlandsIn the Netherlands the Dutch Data Center Association reports about 935 MW of operational colocation IT power in Q2 2026, up 6.6% in a year, and says grid congestion, permits and a lack of sites now limit growth.
NorwayIn Norway NVE reports that data centres used about 3 TWh in 2025 and forecasts about 8 TWh in 2030, with about 10 GW of data centre capacity reserved or queued in the Statnett transmission grid.- PolandIn Poland the government announced in February 2025 a Microsoft investment of almost PLN 3 billion, and Atman opened its WAW-3 campus with 14.4 MW of IT power in September 2025.
- SpainIn Spain SpainDC counts 439 MW of installed colocation and hyperscale IT power at the end of 2025 and sees up to 2,537 MW by 2030.
SwedenIn Sweden Svenska kraftnät puts data centre electricity use at about 3 TWh today, with 2050 scenarios from 9 to 41 TWh.- United KingdomThe UK is Europe's largest colocation market by the government's own estimate, heavily concentrated in London.
North America
Read the US and North America briefing. Country records stay on these 3 market profiles.
- CanadaIn Canada Microsoft said in December 2025 it is investing CAD 19 billion between 2023 and 2027 to expand its Canada Central and Canada East regions, with new capacity from the second half of 2026.
- MexicoIn Mexico ODATA launched the first 72 MW (IT) facility at its QR03 campus in Querétaro on 30 April 2025, after energising 200 MW of campus power infrastructure in February 2025.
- United StatesThe US is the largest data centre market and the centre of AI campus construction.
Middle East and Africa
Read the Middle East and Africa briefing. Country records stay on these 8 market profiles.
- EgyptIn Egypt Vodafone Business, Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies announced Africa Data Centres Egypt in September 2026, a sovereign AI data centre targeting 20 MW within three years and a path to 200 MW.
- IsraelIn Israel, Globes reported in November 2025 that AWS leased land near Netanya for a possible 35 to 40 MW data centre that could double its Israeli capacity, probably by 2030.
- KenyaIn Kenya the Microsoft and G42 plan for Olkaria, announced in May 2024 with an initial 100 MW, was reported as stalled in May 2026 because a 1 GW site would need about a third of national supply.
- NigeriaIn Nigeria Equinix announced its USD 22 million LG3 site in November 2025 and Kasi Cloud launched LOS1 in May 2026, described in the press as the largest data centre in West Africa.
- QatarGoogle launched its Doha cloud region in Qatar in April 2023 with three availability zones, and Microsoft opened its Qatar datacenter region in August 2022.
- Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia is scaling data centre capacity from a small base as part of its AI and digital strategy.
- South AfricaFor South Africa, Daily Maverick reported in February 2026 that announced expansions would push IT load above 1,200 MW.
- United Arab EmiratesThe UAE is positioning itself as a regional AI infrastructure hub.
Latin America and other markets
Read the Latin America briefing (Brazil, Mexico and Chile). Country records stay on these 1 market profiles.
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