A snapshot of H1 from CBRE's North America Data Centre Trends 🔎 Some of the key headlines: - Primary market supply totaled a record 8,155 megawatts (MW) in H1 2025, up by 17.6% from H2 2024 and by 43.4% year-over-year. - Despite this significant increase in inventory, primary market vacancy dropped to a record-low 1.6%, underscoring the continued strength of end-user demand, particularly from hyperscale and AI occupiers. - Average pricing for a 250-to-500-kilowatt (kW) requirement increased by 2.5% since H2 2024, while larger deployments, particularly 10 MW+, increased by up to 19%. These pricing increases were driven by tight supply of contiguous power blocks, elevated build-out costs and fierce competition from cloud and AI-related tenants for high-density infrastructure.
CBRE: Record data centre supply and low vacancy in North America
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