Latin America’s four main data center hubs grew 41% to about 1,045 MW in a year, while Africa’s market is forecast to reach $8.76bn by 2031, led by South Africa.
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Data Center Investments by Country
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Data Center Investments by Country from the kurums.com Technology desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
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- Updated Nov 1, 2026
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Türkiye’s Data Center Market: Investments, Capacity and Policy
Türkiye aims to grow from about 250 MW to 1 GW of data center capacity by 2030, led by Turkcell and Google Cloud’s $3bn region and Rönesans–Digital Realty’s Ankara campus.
Asia-Pacific Data Center Investment: Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea and Australia
Asia-Pacific’s data center pipeline reached a record 26.5 GW in H1 2026, led by Johor’s 1.1 GW boom, Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore’s tightly rationed 200 MW allocation.
India Data Center Investment: Mumbai, Chennai and the Hyperscaler Commitments
India reached about 1.8 GW of operational data center capacity in 2026, with Adani, Amazon, Microsoft and Google committing well over $150bn and Savills forecasting 7+ GW by 2030.
China’s Data Center Build-Out: East Data West Computing and the Domestic AI Chip Push
China’s eight national compute hubs held 1.95 million racks by mid-2024, but only about 63% were in use, as AI capex, chip controls and overcapacity reshape the market.
The Gulf Data Center Race: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
The Gulf is racing to build AI compute: a 5 GW campus in Abu Dhabi, HUMAIN’s 6 GW Saudi target and Qatar’s $20bn Brookfield JV, now tempered by the March 2026 strikes.
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Europe’s Data Center Investment Map: FLAP-D, the Nordics and the EU AI Gigafactories
EMEA data center capacity passed 12.1 GW in H1 2026 with an 18.3 GW pipeline, as grid limits in FLAP-D push AI campuses towards the Nordics, Iberia and EU gigafactories.
United States Data Center Investment: Virginia, Texas and the Stargate Build-Out
US data center construction hit an $85bn annual rate in August 2026, with 7.5 GW under construction in primary markets and Stargate planning 9 GW+ across seven sites.