Northern Virginia remains the world’s largest hub for internet traffic with more new data center capacity coming online in the first half of 2020 than anywhere else around the globe.
Commercial real estate firm CBRE reports Northern Virginia accounted for 70% of the 134.9 megawatts of net absorption among primary markets through June 2020. It continues growing, with the region’s total data center inventory growing 24% year-over-year to approximately 1.3 gigawatts.
“What is remarkable about Northern Virginia is that it is almost four times the size of the next largest data center market in the country, which is Dallas,” CBRE Vice President Jamie Jelinek told WTOP. “Globally, it is more than two times the size of the next largest market, which is London.”
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