Executive Summary

Majority of the Upcoming Data Center Development in Denmark is likely to be Powered Through Renewable Energy Sources

Denmark data center market size by investment to reach USD 2.5 billion, growing at a CAGR of 1.7% during 2020-2025. The strong inland and submarine cable connectivity is one of the major strengths in Denmark as major data center hub in Europe. Denmark is attracting data center investments due to low latency, digital connectivity, and green energy. The country has a strong IoT network. In 2019, Teracom, a telecommunications firm, partnered with Loriot, an IoT infrastructure firm, to complete a nationwide IoT LoRaWAN network.

Copenhagen is one of the major data center hubs in Denmark. The city has over 20 facilities. 5G network coverage is likely to cover 90% of the market by 2025, which will witness increase in deployment of edge facilities across many major cities connected to hyperscale facilities operated in the country. Digiplex is estimated to build another facility in Denmark during the forecast period, which is predicted to reuse excess heat. The company’s facility in Copenhagen derives its mains power from certified renewable hydro and wind energy source.

What are the Key Factors Attracting Investment in Denmark?

Factors such as renewable energy, favorable climatic conditions, ease of doing business, encouraging government policies in terms of land and energy sources are continuing to attract data center investments in Denmark. Denmark launched its Digital Strategy, which aims at 100 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload speeds for all households and businesses by 2020. Copenhagen is one of the leading data center markets in Europe. Also, other cities such as Frederica and Odense are observing an increase in investment from colocation providers such as GlobalConnect, Bulk Infrastructure, and DigiPlex. Interxion, Facebook, Google, Globleconnect, Bulk Infrastructure, and Digiplex are prominent investors in the Denmark data center market.

What Business Intelligence does this Report Provide?

The report provides Denmark data center investments in terms of area (square feet) and power capacity (MW) in major cities in the country. Furthermore, the report also includes a detailed analysis of the colocation industry, and retail & wholesale colocation pricing in Denmark.

A detailed study of the existing market landscape, an in-depth industry analysis, and insightful predictions about the Denmark data center market size during 2020-2025, is included in this exclusive report.

The report further categorizes the data center market in Denmark into multiple segments and sub-segments with sizing and forecast. The report also profiles prominent investors, construction contractors, and infrastructure vendors in the data center market in Denmark.

Key Developments

• Over 60% of the country is currently heated by district heating, which is provided by combined waste heat from households and industrial processing.
• Denmark is likely to face increased demand for customized and flexible networking components. Cloud-based applications are growing along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality.
• Facebook, in its Odense facility, has reduced the adoption of generator capacity by nearly 70% due to the robust reliability of the grid in the country.
• Monitored and metered/switched PDUs are expected to experience strong adoption in the market. This is owing to the growing awareness of end-to-end power monitoring in the facilities during the forecast period.
• 42U rack units dominate the market adoption, followed by 48U cabinets among hyperscale data center facilities.
• Greenfield projects are witnessing increased investments from local and global data center providers as they are aiming to expand their presence.
• The market has a strong presence of infrastructure vendors in performing installation and commissioning services.

Key Companies Mentioned in this Report Include

IT Infrastructure Providers - Atos, Arista, Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, Cisco, NetApp, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo

Construction Service Providers - Gottlieb Paludan Architects, Aarsleff, Exyte, COWI, MT Hojgaard, Novenco, Soren Jensen, Ramboll, Mace, Mercury, Caverion

Support Infrastructure Providers - ABB, Caterpillar, Cummins, Climaveneta, Kinolt, Eaton, Legrand, MTU Onsite Energy, Socomec, Kohler SDMO, Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Rittal, Stulz, Riello UPS

Data Center Investors - GlobalConnect, Digiplex, Google, Facebook, Bulk Infrastructure Group, Interxion