Data Center Equipment & Infrastructure Market Report 2025-2030

• What is a data center, and what types of data centers exist?
• What is behind the recent data center spending uptick?
• What building blocks are used to build data centers?
• What is the size of the data center infrastructure market by infrastructure type (7 types of infrastructure analyzed) and what is the projection until 2030?
• What are the market shares of leading data center facility infrastructure vendors (by type of equipment: electrical systems, cooling systems, cabling infrastructure, security & fire protection systems)?
• What are the market shares of leading IT infrastructure vendors for data centers (by type of infrastructure: servers, networking, storage)?
• What are the key trends in the data center space?
• What are the key challenges in the data center space?

ABB

AMD

Belden

Carrier

Caterpillar

Cisco

Commscope

Corning

Cummins

Daikin

Dell

Eaton

Flex

Foxconn

HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

Honeywell

IEIT Systems

Intel

Johnson Controls

Juniper Networks

Legrand

Lenovo

Micron

MiTAC

Motivair

NetApp

Nexans

NTT Data

NVIDIA

Oracle

PureStorage

Quanta

Rolls Royce

SanDisk Corporation

SAP

Schneider Electric

Seagate

Siemens

Supermicro

Trane

Vertiv

Western Digital

Wiwynn

Massive investments from tech giants and governments are transforming the global data center landscape, driven primarily by the computing demands of Generative AI . This report details the market for data center equipment, including IT infrastructure (servers, networking, storage) and facility infrastructure (electrical, cooling, cabling, security), providing market projections, competitive landscapes, and analysis of key trends and challenges .

Report at a glance

• Technology Overview: Details the two foundational infrastructure types (IT and Facility) and their 7 sub-categories, covering components from chipsets and AI servers to liquid cooling types and electrical distribution systems
• Market Size & Outlook: Provides a global market sizing and forecast to 2030, with detailed breakdowns by region and key infrastructure segments . Includes analysis of key market drivers (e.g., AI adoption, hyperscaler CapEx) and inhibitors
• Competitive Landscape & Vendor Profiles: Presents current market shares for key segments. Includes a deep-dive on NVIDIA’s market impact and features detailed profiles for key vendors in the ecosystem
• Deep-Dive: Colocation Data Centers: Analyzes a large sample of colocation facilities to benchmark location, size, and reliability tiers
• Trends & Challenges: Investigates key trends, including the critical shift to liquid cooling for high-density racks, waste heat re-use, and modularization. Also details major challenges, such as grid capacity limits and high lead times for components

A data-driven foundation for key business functions

For IT & Facility Infrastructure Vendors:

• Strategy & Competitive Intelligence: Benchmark against competitors with current market shares for key segments. Use the in-depth vendor profiles to analyze competitors’ strategies and product portfolios
• Product Management & R&D: Align product roadmaps with critical technology trends, such as the shift to high-density liquid cooling and the demand for modular, prefabricated power systems
• Business Development: Identify partnership opportunities by understanding the ecosystem, particularly NVIDIA’s outsized influence and its MGX platform, which is shaping vendor roadmaps

For Hyperscale & Colocation Operators:

• Procurement & Sourcing: Mitigate supply chain risks by understanding market-wide challenges, such as high lead times for generators and switchgear
• Infrastructure Strategy & Capacity Planning: Inform site selection and build-out strategy based on key constraints like grid capacity limits and regulatory compliance
• Design & Engineering: Use the colocation deep-dive to benchmark facility design for reliability and redundancy

For Financial Institutions & Investors:

• Market Analysis: Validate investment theses with granular market sizing and segment forecasts

Report Scope: What is Data Center Infrastructure?

This report provides a market analysis for the 7 key hardware categories that constitute data center infrastructure. These are segmented into two foundational types

IT Infrastructure Hardware components that support computing, storage, and data transmission

• Servers: The core computing units (e.g., rack-mounted, blade, HPC servers) that process workloads
• Networking: Equipment (e.g., switches, routers, firewalls) that enables data transfer between servers, storage, and external networks
• Storage: Solutions (e.g., SSDs, HDDs, networked systems) that manage and retain vast amounts of data

Facility Infrastructure Critical systems that ensure continuous power supply, efficient cooling, and physical security

• Electrical systems: Equipment (e.g., switchgear, UPS, PDUs, generators) that provides backup power to prevent downtime
• Cooling systems: Solutions (e.g., chillers, cooling towers, CRAHs) that regulate temperatures to maintain optimal operating conditions
• Cabling infrastructure: Cabling for data transmission and power distribution across the data center
• Security & fire protection systems: Fire suppression, monitoring, and access control systems that protect data centers from physical threats