UK Data Centres Market Report 2023

Mintel’s UK Data Centres Market Report 2023 analyses the current and future landscape of the UK Datacentre market, including market size, forecast, and industry structure.

Key Issues Covered in this Report

• How market demand is changing after the extreme COVID-19 related growth.
• How colocation coexists with hyper scale development.
• How the high number of market drivers will impact the sector.
• Why the sector is so attractive to third party investment and the high levels of M&A activity.
• How the industry structure is changing.

UK Data Centres Market Landscape

Demand for data centre was in strong growth before the pandemic, largely driven by a continued and almost ubiquitous move to digital processes itself supporting the growth of cloud computing. The pandemic served to accelerate the already strong growth. As businesses looked to sustain business under new circumstances of social distancing and remote working, the trend to digital processes was accelerated. Notwithstanding the wider challenges to the economy from geopolitical forces and the cost-of-living crisis the generation of data looks to gain a specific growth from the introduction of generative AI.

Purchase our full report to learn more about the growing UK data centre market, packed with market-leading analysis of the industry, granular data, and detailed information on industry structure and company profiles. 

Expert Analysis from a B2B Specialist

This report, written by Terry Leggett, a leading B2B analyst, delivers in-depth commentary and analysis to highlight current trends in the UK data centre market and add expert context to the numbers.

Demand for data centres has grown rapidly along with the digitisation of both business and consumer behaviour. Even though 90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years, and every two years the volume of data is doubling, the development remains in its infancy when the transformational technologies being introduced become mainstream. Volume demand is accelerating, while locational requirements are also extending beyond London and the main metropolitan areas. The myriad of technologies contributing to these changes are all at various stages of integration and include cloud computing; 5G; web 3; AI; IoT; AR; VR; MR; the metaverse, blockchain, edge computing. With such growth prospects, and strong recurring income, the sector has become a magnet for private equity and third party finance while data centre development is very expensive.

Terry Leggett
Principal Analyst