Chart of the Day: How large is Singapore's data centre capacity?

It beats that of Hong Kong, Sydney and Tokyo.

This chart from JLL shows that Singapore is Asia’s leading market for data centres with an estimated total capacity of 330 MW. 

According to JLL, the Singapore market is projected to remain stable as it takes a breather from the aggressive growth in the previous years, and to allow absorption to catch up. “The country continues to attract interest across the spectrum of operators, end-users, and investors,” it added. 

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Tokyo is fast catching up to the Lion City with an estimated capacity of 315 MW. Hong Kong and Sydney trail behind with 285 MW and 197 capacity respectively. Together, the four cities make up the Big 4 as they emerge as the preferred location for data centre investments. 

“In all four cities, demand for a variety of data centre and cloud services has continued to rise, spurred by demographics, rising internet and social media use, the consumption of e-commerce, OTT, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and applications and big data analytics,” they explained.

Facebook's decision to invest $1.4b for its first Asian data centre in the city state is the latest high-profile example adding to the growing names of tech titans like Google, Alibaba Cloud and Yahoo who have found a supportive environment in Singapore with which to build large-scale storage facilities for their servers.