ABI Research’s Data Centers Research Service examines the trends shaping next-generation compute infrastructure, guiding providers and implementers across workload demand, capacity expansion, energy consumption, thermal management, investment, edge deployments, and orbital data center opportunities.
Data Centers Coverage Areas
ABI Research’s data centers coverage provides in-depth insights for technology providers and implementers navigating the rapid evolution of digital infrastructure. The service explores the major trends transforming data center strategies, including increasing workload demand, infrastructure investment, capacity expansion plans, distributed architectures, and energy generation, consumption, and operational efficiency.
Within this context, it examines data center capacity expansion, power availability, and thermal management, alongside the growing role of edge data centers and emerging orbital data center concepts. In addition to assessing market drivers, regional dynamics, and ecosystem shifts, the service delivers vendor analysis and real-world implementation insights to support both supply- and demand-side decision-making. This research equips stakeholders to align with next-generation infrastructure opportunities and long-term data center transformation.
Data Center Infrastructure, Demand & Investment Trends
- Data center capacity expansion and regional build-out trends
- Workload demand growth across Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud, enterprise, and digital services
- Investment trends in data center development, modernization, and expansion
- Capacity expansion plans, data center site selection, scalability, and capacity utilization strategies
- Modular data center deployment models
- Workload distribution across core, regional, edge, and specialized data center environments
- Orbital data centers’ market potential, technical feasibility, and deployment roadmaps
Vendor & Ecosystem Assessments
- Competitive assessments of data center operators, cooling vendors, power infrastructure suppliers, and edge specialists
- Strategic positioning of colocation providers, hyperscalers, and infrastructure integrators
- Partner ecosystems, including utilities, engineering firms, hardware vendors, and network providers
- Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies for data center infrastructure, cooling solutions, and distributed compute platforms
Data Centers Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation
For Innovators
In the evolving data center landscape, ABI Research helps technology providers develop and prioritize product, investment, partnership, and GTM strategies. The research service enables suppliers to understand shifts in workload demand, capacity expansion, energy consumption, and thermal requirements; identify emerging opportunities across edge and orbital deployments; assess competitive positioning; and align innovation with infrastructure priorities and customer demand.
For Implementers
Our data centers research empowers implementers with actionable intelligence on technologies, vendors, deployment models, and operational best practices. Using insights from the service, implementers can better evaluate capacity expansion plans, energy and cooling strategies, workload placement, and partner ecosystems, ensuring they make informed infrastructure decisions that support performance, resilience, efficiency, and long-term transformation goals.
Our Data Centers Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders
Cloud Service Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Identify where workload demand is accelerating capacity needs
- Support infrastructure investment planning across core, edge, and specialized environments
- Inform strategies for power availability, energy consumption, and thermal management
- Benchmark expansion plans, service positioning, and regional deployment priorities
- Guide differentiation through performance, scalability, and workload-specific infrastructure
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- How is workload demand reshaping infrastructure strategy and capacity expansion plans?
- Where are the strongest regional opportunities and biggest infrastructure bottlenecks?
- What power, energy, and thermal strategies are needed to support AI and high-density compute?
- How should providers balance centralized scale with edge and distributed deployment models?
- What role could emerging concepts like orbital data centers play in future infrastructure planning?
Colocation Data Center Operators
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Benchmark market demand, utilization patterns, and capacity expansion strategies
- Assess how customer workload growth is changing facility design and service requirements
- Identify opportunities to differentiate through power access, cooling readiness, and regional footprint
- Inform capital allocation and investment priorities for high-density and AI-ready environments
- Support Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for enterprise, hyperscale, and emerging neocloud customers
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- Which customer segments and workloads are driving the next wave of facility demand?
- How should operators evolve sites to support higher-density and AI-ready deployments?
- What expansion and investment strategies will deliver the greatest competitive advantage?
- How do energy access, cooling readiness, and location shape long-term success?
- What is the opportunity for modular, edge, and specialized deployment models?
Data Center Infrastructure Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Understand demand for cooling, power, rack, modular, and facility management solutions
- Identify where thermal and energy challenges are creating the strongest market opportunities
- Align product development with changing density, efficiency, and resiliency requirements
- Evaluate customer needs across centralized, edge, and next-generation data center models
- Support market positioning and partner strategy across operators, cloud providers, and integrators
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- Which infrastructure categories will see the strongest demand from capacity expansion and AI growth?
- How fast are advanced cooling and power solutions moving into mainstream deployments?
- What are the infrastructure implications of rising energy consumption and workload density?
- How should vendors align with operator and cloud provider investment priorities?
- Where are the best opportunities across core, edge, and emerging data center environments?
Semiconductor Manufacturers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Identify where workload demand is accelerating capacity needs
- Support infrastructure investment planning across core, edge, and specialized environments
- Inform strategies for power availability, energy consumption, and thermal management
- Benchmark expansion plans, service positioning, and regional deployment priorities
- Guide differentiation through performance, scalability, and workload-specific infrastructure
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- Which workloads are driving the next wave of compute and acceleration demand?
- How are power, cooling, and rack density constraints influencing silicon requirements?
- What role will AI, edge, and distributed infrastructure play in future chipset demand?
- How should vendors position products for evolving cloud and data center architectures?
- Where are the biggest whitespace opportunities across performance, efficiency, and specialized compute?