FEATURE reported this year that power constraints in Frankfurt have led to some of the operators having longer lead times on the power they have secured , with some unlikely to receive full power for another seven years .
As a result , we are starting to see development expand outside the traditional submarkets , with one hyperscaler having already acquired three sites in Hanau , Erlensee and Dietzenbach in 2020 . Belgium looks set to overtake Finland as the third largest hyperscale self-build market in Europe with 186MW , compared to 184MW in Finland .
In Spain , AWS is on course to go live with the first hyperscale campuses in Spain in 2021 .
It initially announced a public cloud region in Spain in 2019 and started construction in 2020 , choosing to develop in the autonomous community of Aragon , unlike other cloud providers which have continued to focus on Madrid .
Looking ahead to 2022
Competition to source and acquire land for data centre development will continue to be fierce next year , as efforts to deliver on existing commitments and to meet demand for increased supply continue .
The challenge will not only be identifying new sites at a time when both land prices are rising due to the scarcity of supply and most importantly the significant lack of power availability in established metros . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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