As an important place for data generation, aggregation, integration and transmission, data center is a physical entity carrying computing capacity, a catalyst for the digital transformation of traditional industries, a driving force for the rapid development of digital industry, and a core component of China's new infrastructure. With the rapid development of information and intelligence in human society, data center has become an important computing infrastructure. Now and in the future, it will be an indispensable part of the new generation of information construction and the growth of digital economy. China is accelerating the high-quality development of data centers. The three-year action plan for the development of new data centers (20212023) issued by the Ministry of industry and information technology in 2021 points out that in three years, a new data center development pattern with reasonable layout, advanced technology, green and low-carbon, and computing power scale commensurate with the growth of digital economy will be basically formed.
China has successively put forward national strategic layout such as new infrastructure, digital transformation and digital China vision. Local governments attach great importance to the development of strategic emerging industries such as big data, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet. At the same time, 5g, Internet of things, cloud computing, enterprise cloud and other data application scenarios continue to diversify, and the demand of major Internet companies for data computing and processing continues to increase. Under the influence of dual factors, the growth of China's data center market is highly driven and the business is prosperous. China's data center industry has maintained a rapid growth trend of about 30% in recent years. A large number of enterprises and capital have poured in. The new construction and expansion of data centers are in full swing. Super large and large data centers continue to emerge, and the rack scale is rising year by year.
Third party data center operators play a more and more important role in the business market with good market reputation, high-quality service quality, rapid construction ability, rich product types and flexible customization ability. This report combs the overall situation and market scale of the third-party data center operators in the data center field, summarizes the business operation and construction mode, analyzes the development advantages and future challenges, and records the major events in technology application, project construction, business behavior and other aspects of the third-party data center operators in 2021.
In order to promote the healthy and orderly development of China's data center industry, this report comprehensively analyzes the business development characteristics and key influencing factors of the data center, establishes the development index in the three dimensions of scale, capacity and finance, makes a scientific and objective evaluation on the national third-party data center operators, and ranks the top 10 enterprises in the three dimensions.
The third-party data center operators mentioned in this report are not only the leading enterprises with strong leadership, but also the rising stars who catch up. The transformation star of cross-border development of data center business has also attracted much attention. With the continuous growth of the global data center market, driven by the integrated application of new generation information technologies such as cloud computing, next-generation wireless network, big data, Internet of things and artificial intelligence and the development of digital transformation of the industry, China's data center market will continue to maintain steady growth, and third-party data center operators have great prospects.
