Data-Center Market Is Booming Amid Shift to Cloud

Data centers are hot properties, even as many businesses are shedding them to shift their information-technology operations online, to the cloud.

The warehouse-sized facilities that house racks of servers and other hardware can be costly and inefficient to manage. But some are being snapped up by data-center landlords, known as co-location service providers, which lease space in the facilities to cloud services offered by Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other tech companies. The rapid growth of cloud computing is heating up competition for new and used facilities and driving consolidation among data-center operators.

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Market-intelligence firm Synergy Research Group Inc. recorded 52 mergers and acquisitions in the data-center market between January and June, an 18% increase from the first six months of 2018, and more than the total number of deals for all of 2016.

Most of the deals involve data-center operators buying competitors or forming joint ventures with each other, said John Dinsdale, Synergy’s chief analyst. But the numbers also include acquisitions of facilities cast off by companies moving to the cloud, he said.

Eight data-center deals closed in July, with 14 more pending formal closure agreements, Synergy said in a report last week. It has recorded a total of 300 data-center M&A deals since 2015 with an aggregate value of more than $65 billion.

Co-location services typically provide physical space, power and cooling systems for servers and other computer hardware used by businesses, while connecting them to local communications grids and networks of interconnected data centers. Prized locations tend to be near cheap power sources or have access to communications infrastructure.

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