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Global Data Center Trends 2025

CBRE · Gordon Dolven, Kevin Restivo et al.

CBRE's global market review of 24 June 2025: vacancy, pricing, power constraints and local power moratoria.

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Overview

CBRE's Global Data Center Trends 2025 is a global market review dated 24 June 2025, written by Gordon Dolven, Kevin Restivo, Andrew Jay and CBRE Research. It includes market-level supply, absorption and rent data.

According to the executive summary, global weighted vacancy stood at 6.6% in the first quarter of 2025, down 2.1 percentage points year on year. Global average pricing rose 3.3% year on year to $217.30 per kW per month. Northern Virginia's inventory is 3,046.1 MW with vacancy of 0.76%, showing virtually no free capacity in one of the largest markets.

Power is the report's standout constraint. Amsterdam keeps a planning moratorium on data centres with 70 MW or more of IT load, and West London projects are delayed to 2030 and beyond pending substation upgrades. According to the construction section, power constraints push new construction timelines to 2027 and beyond.

As a limitation, this is market research: it supplies capacity, pricing and timing information, not technical design criteria. The figures belong to a specific period (Q1 2025) and can age quickly. Copyright belongs to CBRE.

Key points

  1. Global weighted vacancy was 6.6% in Q1 2025 (down 2.1 percentage points year on year).
  2. Global average pricing rose 3.3% year on year to $217.30 per kW per month.
  3. Northern Virginia inventory is 3,046.1 MW with vacancy of 0.76%.
  4. Amsterdam keeps a planning moratorium on data centres with 70 MW or more of IT load.
  5. West London projects are delayed to 2030 and beyond pending substation upgrades.
  6. Power constraints push new construction timelines to 2027 and beyond.

Using it in design

  • In the site module, store local power and planning caps (for example Amsterdam 70 MW IT) as site-rule warnings.
  • Keep rents in dollars per kW per month so the cost module can compare colocation with building.
  • Treat the grid connection timeline as a critical path item in the project schedule.

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Who should read it

Investors and planners making site-selection and colocation-versus-build decisions.

Publication details

Authors
Gordon Dolven; Kevin Restivo; Andrew Jay; CBRE Research
Publisher
CBRE
Year
2025
Document language
English
Source type
Expert / community
Access
Free to read
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Copyright retained; citation only — the publisher’s terms apply to the original document
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Public CBRE research page; cited only.

Citation

Gordon Dolven; Kevin Restivo; Andrew Jay; CBRE Research (2025). Global Data Center Trends 2025. CBRE. https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/global-data-center-trends-2025

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