Data Center Equipment & Infrastructure Market Report 2025-2030

The Data Center Equipment & Infrastructure Market Report 2025-2030 analyzes the market for data center equipment, including market size, competitive landscape, key trends and challenges, and more.

Generative AI demand correlates with an increase in capital expenditure, resulting in a global Data Center Equipment & Infrastructure market value of $290 billion in 2024. Based on investment allocations from hyperscalers, the market is forecast to reach $1.01 trillion by 2030.

This report outlines the two core segments of the ecosystem:

• IT Infrastructure (78% of the market): servers, storage, and networking hardware
• Facility Infrastructure (12% of the market): power, cooling, security, and cabling systems

Key data snapshot

• 2024 market size: $290 billion
• 2030 forecast: $1.01 trillion (CAGR +23%)
• Key players: Foxconn, Schneider Electric, Dell

Key trends & market leaders

High-density AI clusters require specific thermal management strategies. Data indicates an adoption of liquid-to-liquid cooling technologies to address the thermal output of modern racks. Concurrently, NVIDIA influences the wider ecosystem, as its MGX platform specifications align with product roadmaps for power and cooling vendors.

Regarding market share, infrastructure spending flows primarily to Foxconn for server manufacturing and Schneider Electric for power and cooling. Dell maintains a position in IT hardware. This report details granular market share data for these players and 50 others. It further analyzes supply chain constraints, foremost among them grid capacity limits.

Key questions addressed

• What is a data center, and what types of data centers exist?
• What is behind the recent data center spending uptick?
• What building blocks are used to build data centers?
• What is the size of the data center infrastructure market by infrastructure type (7 types of infrastructure analyzed) and what is the projection until 2030?
• What are the market shares of leading data center facility infrastructure vendors (by type of equipment: electrical systems, cooling systems, cabling infrastructure, security & fire protection systems)?
• What are the market shares of leading IT infrastructure vendors for data centers (by type of infrastructure: servers, networking, storage)?
• What are the key trends in the data center space?
• What are the key challenges in the data center space?

What's inside

• 1. Executive summary — including analyst takeaways: 3 things that stood out in the analysis
• 2. Introduction — data center investment as a central theme, (generative) AI as the main driver of computing demand, and the 3 main types of data centers
• 3. Technology overview — IT infrastructure (servers, AI servers, networking, storage) and facility infrastructure (electrical systems, cooling and liquid cooling, cabling, security & fire protection)
• 4. Market size & outlook — global market by region and infrastructure type, with deep dives on the server, networking, storage, electrical systems, cooling systems, cabling, and security & fire protection markets
• 5. Competitive landscape — vendor landscape and market shares, top 10 IT and facility infrastructure vendors, a primer on how NVIDIA impacts the landscape, and company deep dives including Foxconn, Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Eaton, and Siemens
• 6. Deep-dive: Colocation data centers — reliability tiers and analysis of colocation providers including Equinix and Digital Realty
• 7. Trends & challenges — 6 trends and 5 challenges
• 8. Methodology & market definitions
• 9. About IoT Analytics

Report details

• Pages: 186
• Document type: PDF, XLSX, PPTX
• Published: November 2025
• Main author: Philipp Wegner
• Publisher: IoT Analytics