The total capacity on offer from the world’s hyperscale datacentres has doubled over the past four years and is set to do so again over the next four years, primarily to support growing demand related to generative AI (GenAI) workloads, according to Synergy Research Group.
New data collated by the research firm shows that the number of large hyperscale datacentres in operation worldwide hit 992 at the end of 2023 and passed the 1,000 mark early this year. Not only that but the capacity of those datacentres has been increasing, and there’s more to come.
“Despite the super-massive size of the datacentre network, its capacity is doubling every four years,” according to the Synergy Research Group team, which expects that that growth rate will continue throughout the rest of the decade. “While there are many different deployment scenarios at play, in aggregate the average capacity of hyperscale datacentres continues to grow,” explained John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research Group.
