{"id":10550,"date":"2021-02-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2020-11-19T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:48:28","slug":"data-centers-steady-growth-of-hyperscale-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/data-centers-steady-growth-of-hyperscale-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers: Steady Growth of Hyperscale Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scale up to massive data centers is a trend being called Hyperscale Data Centers.  By the end of second quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\">2020 there were 541 hyperscale data centers.<\/a>  The definition of hyperscale is that there are more than 5000 servers in a space of 10,000 square feet, but these facilities will more typically have tens of thousands of servers. The centers ae operated by large primarily by cloud vendors, like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-4.png 990w, https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-4-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-4-768x389.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\">From Synergy Research: Hyperscale Data Center Count<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.srgresearch.com\/articles\/hyperscale-data-center-count-reaches-541-mid-2020-another-176-pipeline\">There ae 176 hyperscale data centers <\/a>in the pipeline being built now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johndinsdale\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johndinsdale\/\">John Dinsdale<\/a>, chief analyst at Synergy Research Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/hyperscale-data-center-construction-triples\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/hyperscale-data-center-construction-triples\/\">said that<\/a> &#8220;the activity being driven in particular by continued strong growth in cloud services and social networking. 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