Data centre spending to increase 61% by 2026 – Dell’Oro

Hyperscalers, with their insatiable appetite for putting everything into the cloud, are expected to drive global data centre spending to new highs.
This is according to a forecast published by analyst firm Dell’Oro, which predicts that data centre capex will hit $350 billion by 2026. In response to questions from Telecoms.com, Dell’Oro guided that 2021 capex is $218 billion, with 4Q21 data still at the ‘estimated’ stage. It also noted that its data centre capex forecasts