Data center operators
A market and competitor shortlist to guide expansion and commercial qualification.
View use caseEquinix
Digital Realty
Product
Turn market evidence into your next decision
Compare data center markets, qualify sites and track supply, power, timing and anonymised demand in one workspace.
Review available sources, observation dates, verification dates and confidence alongside each record.
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What it helps you decide
Question, data examined, output
- 01
Screen markets
- Question
- Which markets deserve a closer look
- Data examined
- Sourced supply by stage, capacity basis and country, with power and electricity references
- Output
- A comparable market shortlist with the evidence behind each figure
- 02
Qualify sites
- Question
- Is this site worth a deeper technical review
- Data examined
- Stage, reported IT capacity, timing, mapped power assets nearby and dated sources
- Output
- A site record that separates verified facts from unknowns, such as grid headroom
- 03
Prioritise commercial projects
- Question
- Which projects match a buyer or capacity need
- Data examined
- Anonymised demand signals matched against supply with explained criteria
- Output
- A ranked set of candidate matches with reasons and gaps to verify
The workflow
Five stages, one continuous evidence workflow
Track market change → Review the evidence again
Qualify supply
Compare documented site stage and available capacity evidence, keeping sourced and modelled IT separate
Practical output · A supply shortlist with capacity basis and unknowns
All stages
- Qualify supply · Compare documented site stage and available capacity evidence, keeping sourced and modelled IT separate · A supply shortlist with capacity basis and unknowns
- Compare electricity economics · Sourced country-level EUR/MWh benchmarks are set side by side with their period, band, tax basis and verification date · Comparable electricity benchmarks with period and tax basis
- Structure demand · Qualified searches are captured as anonymised signals: power range, markets, timing — never an identifiable requirement · An anonymised, structured demand signal
- Match on evidence · Commercialisable supply is set against active demand under explicit eligibility rules, with the rationale stated · Explained candidates for analyst qualification
- Track market change · Monthly cycles freeze dated snapshots so every movement between two reviews is visible and auditable · A dated comparison between research cycles
Decisions by segment
One evidence base, applied to each market role
Map • Compare • Monitor • Match gives each team a relevant view of the same qualified market, project, power, demand and timing evidence
Cloud, AI & GPU providers
A deployment shortlist with the technical and commercial questions to confirm with operators.
View use caseAmazon Web Services
Microsoft
Enterprise occupiers
A structured provider and location shortlist for an internal sourcing brief.
View use caseBNP Paribas
Developers & site owners
Development priorities and a clear list of assumptions to validate locally.
View use caseVIRTUS Data Centres
Vantage
Investors & lenders
A prioritised diligence shortlist with comparable project and market evidence.
View use caseBrookfield
Blackstone
Market research & strategy
A traceable evidence base and assumption set for market studies and strategic analysis.
View use caseIDC
Construction & EPC
A project pursuit shortlist for business development and bid/no-bid research.
View use caseMercury
Engineering & technical advisers
A focused technical prospecting list and an evidence checklist for initial scoping.
View use caseArup
Real estate & transaction advisers
A market-backed shortlist for site searches and transaction discussions.
View use caseJLL
Energy, utilities & renewables
Geographic and account priorities for energy development and commercial qualification.
View use caseENGIE
RTE
Equipment & technology suppliers
An account and project plan for equipment and technology prospecting.
View use caseSchneider Electric
Vertiv
Telecoms & connectivity
A geographic and account shortlist for connectivity qualification.
View use caseOrange
Commissioning & operational services
A service prospecting shortlist linked to documented delivery and operating milestones.
View use caseSPIE
Public agencies & economic development
A territory positioning brief and a checklist for investor discussions.
View use caseBusiness France
Illustrative market participants. Logos do not imply customer, partner or endorsement relationships.
The modules
Market Overview
What does coverage look like right now, and what moved since I last looked?
- — Live aggregates across the tracked universe
- — Capacity charts by country and status
- — Verified IT capacity and indicative IT capacity, never blended
- — Freshness flags on records overdue re-verification
Data Center & AI Factory Supply
Which sites are real, at what IT capacity, and on what evidence?
- — Qualified sites with live, under-construction and in-development status
- — Verified IT MW from named, dated sources
- — Modelled IT MW labelled as directional, kept separate
- — Review available sources, confidence and verification dates alongside site records
- — Map and explorer views with country and zone filters
Hyperscale & AI Factory Demand
Who is searching for capacity, for how much, without breaking confidentiality?
- — Anonymised qualified searches, never identifiable requirements
- — Power ranges, target markets and timing
- — Buyer category without counterparty names
- — Activity status maintained signal by signal
Electricity Cost & OPEX
How do electricity economics compare between the markets under consideration?
- — Sourced country-level EUR/MWh business and non-household benchmarks
- — Review source period, consumption band, tax basis, confidence and verification date alongside benchmarks
- — World map and price ranking across covered countries
- — Annual energy-only spend modelled at 10, 50 and 100 MW constant electrical draw × 8,760 hours
- — Electrical draw is not IT MW: actual cost depends on contract and site-specific factors
Monthly Market Cycles
What changed between this cycle and the last?
- — Dated monthly snapshots with a stated source cutoff
- — Supply, demand and match counts per cycle
- — An auditable history of how the market moved
Market Analyses
What is the structural read behind the data?
- — Editorial market analyses from the Powerland Map desk
- — Published openly alongside the tracked dataset
- — Grid, permitting and demand context per market
Decision guides
Start with the question you need to answer
Site selectionPower and gridPlatform evaluationCost comparisonEuropean markets
Data center site selection: build an evidence-based shortlist
A practical data center site selection workflow covering capacity, power, land, permits, timing and the evidence required to qualify a shortlist.
Power infrastructure for data centers: what a map can establish
Understand how generation, substations and transmission maps support data center screening, and what must be confirmed by the network operator.
Compare data center intelligence platforms by the decision you need
An evaluation framework for PowerlandMap, DC Byte and Baxtel using coverage, capacity definitions, evidence, power context and commercial requirements.
Compare data center CAPEX and OPEX without mixing cost scopes
A practical framework for comparing facility CAPEX, IT hardware and electricity OPEX, with a clearly labelled worked energy example.
European data center market intelligence: compare markets on evidence
Screen European data center markets using stage, capacity basis, power context, electricity references, timing and evidence completeness.
Power and Matching modules
Power Intelligence
Examine mapped transmission infrastructure and separate power-generation observations. Proximity does not establish a connection, headroom or available capacity.
- Transmission Grid & Site ProximityExplore fictional demo
- Power GenerationExplore fictional demo
Matching Intelligence
Connect demand signals, qualified supply and spatial and grid context to support site and opportunity matching. Matches are analytical, not a guarantee of availability.
- Supply–Demand MatchingExplore fictional demo
- Mapping analysisExplore fictional demo
Power Intelligence · Coverage evidence
Power Intelligence, backed by a measured corpus
Compare generation, understand the surrounding network and focus the questions that require operator-led due diligence.
- Generation records
- 109,764
- 160 countries with generation records
- Generating units, including some plant aggregate records — not unique physical plants
- Mapped substation records
- 126,706
- 159 countries with network datasets
- Mapped station records for network context — not a certified infrastructure census
- Mapped line segments
- 704,781
- 159 countries with network datasets
- Individual mapped segments, not unique circuits or a measure of grid headroom
Snapshot calculated · 14 Oct, 21:27 UTC
Mapped infrastructure and generation capacity do not certify available grid connections. Connection capacity, delivery timing and conditions must be verified with the operator. Network geometry includes attributed open mapping; source scope and completeness vary.
Live coverage
Full coverage breakdown6,402
Supply sites tracked
4,507 live · 607 under construction · 1,189 in development · 58 unclassified · 41 Other recorded statuses
93,083 MW
Sourced IT capacity
293,983 MW total indicative IT capacity — sourced plus modelled fallback, with no double counting
54,142 MW
Sourced IT capacity in development
160,775 MW total indicative IT capacity in development — sourced plus modelled fallback, with no double counting · 1,189 sites
6,825 MW
Maximum stated demand
Upper bound of 39 active qualified searches across 7 countries — not contracted demand
109,764
Generation records
Electrical generation units and installations across 160 countries — counted separately from data centre supply
Other recorded statuses include statuses outside the four displayed stages; this is not additional active supply
Sourced IT capacity is published by an operator, authority or source document. Indicative IT capacity adds a modelled fallback only where sourced IT is unavailable. The two layers never overlap; site, campus and electrical capacity are excluded from IT MW · Database updated 14 Oct 2026 · Supply last verified 14 Oct 2026 · Demand last verified 02 Oct 2026
Built through more than two years of structured research, validation and expert analysis, and enriched daily. The value lies in the normalisation, evidence trails, verification and cross-market comparability behind each figure — not practically reproducible through a short-term scrape or simple public-source aggregation