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Data Center Market in UK to Grow by USD 37.87 Billion by 2028, Multi-Cloud Adoption and 5G Network Upgrades Boost Market, Report on How AI is Redefining the Landscape – Technavio

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NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Report with market evolution powered by AI – The Data center market in UK size is estimated to grow by USD 37.87 billion from 2024-2028, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of  21.8%  during the forecast period. Growing adoption of multi-cloud and network upgrade to support 5G is driving market growth, with a trend towards consolidation of data centers. However, increasing power consumption  poses a challenge. Key market players include Amazon.com Inc., arkdatacentres.co.UK, Baxtel, Cisco Systems Inc., CyrusOne LLC, Cyxtera Technologies Inc., Digital Realty Trust Inc., DXC Technology Co., Equinix Inc., Switch Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., International Business Machines Corp., Iron Mountain Inc., Microsoft Corp, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Oracle Corp, SAP SE, Verizon Communications Inc., and Virtus.

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Data Center Market In UK Scope

Report Coverage

Details

Base year

2023

Historic period

2018 – 2022

Forecast period

2024-2028

Growth momentum & CAGR

Accelerate at a CAGR of 21.8%

Market growth 2024-2028

USD 37874 million

Market structure

Fragmented

YoY growth 2022-2023 (%)

17.9

Regional analysis

UK

Performing market contribution

Europe at 100%

Key countries

UK and Europe

Key companies profiled

Amazon.com Inc., arkdatacentres.co.UK, Baxtel, Cisco Systems Inc., CyrusOne LLC, Cyxtera Technologies Inc., Digital Realty Trust Inc., DXC Technology Co., Equinix Inc., Global Switch Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., International Business Machines Corp., Iron Mountain Inc., Microsoft Corp, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Oracle Corp, SAP SE, Verizon Communications Inc., and Virtus

Market Driver

The Data Center market in the UK is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing adoption of cloud computing, multi-tenant data centers, and digital transformation. Businesses of all sizes, from large enterprises to small businesses, are leveraging cloud solutions for cost savings and flexibility. The rise of the Internet of Things, eCommerce, and digital content is driving the need for more data storage and transmission. Multi-tenant data centers, hyperscale data centers, and edge computing are becoming popular trends, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and eco-friendly solutions. Remote working and 5G networks are also driving the demand for data centers closer to the edge. Hybrid cloud solutions, smart city infrastructure, and AI technologies like machine learning and deep learning are transforming industries such as IT & Telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, and cybersecurity. Tier 3 data centers, colocation, and interconnection platforms are essential for businesses seeking to improve data management and security. The market is witnessing the emergence of modular data centers, prefabricated solutions, and low-latency applications to support the growing demand for real-time processing and high-performance computing. The future of data centers lies in hyper-scalability, automation, and green energy initiatives. 

Data center consolidation is a trending business strategy among enterprises in the UK, driven primarily by the need to reduce operational costs. High power consumption and carbon emissions leading to increased operational expenses have encouraged many organizations to consolidate their data centers. This consolidation can result in cost savings of up to 30%, enhanced security up to 35%, improved efficiency by 50%, and reduced power consumption by 55%. Various enterprises are implementing this strategy by consolidating existing facilities, moving operations to colocation data centers, and adopting cloud-based services. For instance, National Grid recently selected Wipro for data center consolidation and the implementation of a next-generation hybrid cloud architecture in the UK. 

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 Market Challenges

•  The Data Center market in the UK is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing demand for cloud computing, multi-tenant data centers, and digital transformation. Businesses of all sizes, from Large Enterprises to Small Enterprises, are adopting cloud solutions for their eCommerce platforms, digital content, and IoT applications. The rise of 5G networks and edge computing is driving the need for micro data centers and hyperscale data centers. Challenges such as energy efficiency, data security, and asset performance management are top priorities for colocation service providers and hyper-scale operators. The adoption of AI, machine learning, and automation is essential for managing digital data and ensuring the reliability of electrical and mechanical infrastructure. The market is also witnessing the emergence of green data centers and eco-friendly solutions, as well as the integration of generative AI, deep learning, and high-performance computing for data storage and real-time processing. The IT & Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Cybersecurity sectors are leading the way in the adoption of these technologies. Colocation services, interconnection platforms, modular data centers, and prefabricated solutions are becoming increasingly popular for their flexibility and scalability. The market is expected to continue growing as businesses seek to optimize their IT infrastructure and improve their digital capabilities.

•  The UK data center market is experiencing substantial growth due to increasing data traffic from Internet penetration, social media usage, automation technologies, smart city initiatives, and AI adoption. Servers and cooling solutions in data centers account for a significant portion of electricity consumption. Energy scarcity is a pressing issue globally, and the UK faces power production and consumption gaps. Large enterprises operate data centers to power millions of users for business continuity, leading to high energy consumption and power costs, as well as environmental concerns such as carbon emissions.

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Segment Overview 

This data center market in UK report extensively covers market segmentation by 

ComponentIT InfrastructurePower ManagementMechanical ConstructionGeneral ConstructionSecurity SolutionsGeographyEurope

1.1 IT infrastructure-  The Data Center IT infrastructure market in the UK consists of server infrastructure, storage infrastructure, software-defined data centers (SDDCs), network infrastructure, converged infrastructure, data center automation software, data center backup and recovery software, and DCIM solutions. The demand for these IT infrastructure components is increasing due to the growing need for computing power and storage to support expanding data traffic. Enterprises in the UK are transitioning to cloud technologies, moving their data from on-premises data centers to cloud-based alternatives. This trend is anticipated to boost the demand for servers, storage infrastructure, and other IT equipment during the forecast period. Additionally, investments in providing cloud solutions using hyperscale data centers (HDCs) are on the rise, such as SAP SE’s recent £220 million investment in the UK for its SAP UK data cloud. The advantages of HDCs, including high scalability, cooling efficiency, and workload balancing, are becoming increasingly valuable. The number of HDCs is projected to grow, leading to increased demand for data center IT infrastructure and related solutions worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of cloud services and digitization, further fueling the need for advanced IT infrastructure in the UK.

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Research Analysis

The Data Center market in the UK is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing demand for cloud computing, multi-tenant data centers, and digital transformation. Businesses across industries are adopting cloud solutions for their operations, leading to an increase in the demand for data center services. The Internet of Things (IoT) and eCommerce sectors are major contributors to this trend, generating large amounts of data that require secure and efficient storage and processing. Big data, digital content, and high-performance computing are driving the need for advanced electrical and mechanical infrastructure in data centers. Remote working and 5G networks are also fueling the growth of the market, as more businesses rely on cloud services for their day-to-day operations. Data security is a major concern for organizations, leading to the adoption of colocation, hyperscale, and enterprise data centers. Data Center Rating systems are being used to evaluate the efficiency and sustainability of data centers. The market also includes micro data centers and corporate data centers, as well as server storage devices, networking equipment, and digital data. Advanced technologies such as Generative AI, Deep Learning, and High-Performance Computing are being used in data centers for various applications, including data analysis and processing. Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions are also gaining popularity, providing businesses with more flexibility and scalability.

Market Research Overview

The Data Center market in the UK is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing demand for cloud computing, multi-tenant data centers, and digital transformation. With the rise of big data, Internet of Things (IoT), eCommerce, and digital content, there is a need for more efficient and scalable data center solutions. This has led to the emergence of various types of data centers such as hyperscale, edge, micro, and Tier 3 data centers. Energy efficiency and eco-friendly solutions are becoming essential as data centers consume vast amounts of electricity. The adoption of renewable energy sources, generative AI, and deep learning is helping reduce carbon emissions. The market is also witnessing the deployment of 5G networks, which require low-latency applications and edge data centers to support the growing number of smartphones and IoT devices. Hybrid cloud solutions, colocation services, and interconnection platforms are becoming popular as businesses seek to manage their digital data securely and efficiently. Moreover, the healthcare, manufacturing, IT & telecom, and cybersecurity industries are investing heavily in data centers to support their digital transformation initiatives. The market is expected to continue growing as businesses adopt automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enhance their operations and gain a competitive edge.

Table of Contents:

1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
3 Market Sizing
4 Historic Market Size
5 Five Forces Analysis
6 Market Segmentation

ComponentIT InfrastructurePower ManagementMechanical ConstructionGeneral ConstructionSecurity SolutionsGeographyEurope

7 Customer Landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
10 Company Landscape
11 Company Analysis
12 Appendix

About Technavio

Technavio is a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.

With over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 17,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.

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commercetools Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce as AI Reshapes the Market

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commercetools is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce for the seventh consecutive year.commercetools has been driving AI innovation on how enterprises build, operate and sell, including capabilities like Sphere, Commerce MCP and commercetools for Builders.commercetools is helping global enterprises modernize complex commerce operations and prepare for a future where both people and AI agents discover, shop and transact.

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — commercetools, the digital commerce AI company, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce. This marks the seventh consecutive year commercetools has been recognized as a Leader in the report.

As AI reshapes commerce, commercetools is expanding how it supports the enterprises who build and operate commerce experiences, and the shoppers who use them. Global enterprises including JD Sports, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Chemist Warehouse and Mirion Technologies are using commercetools to modernize complex digital commerce, accelerate growth and adopt new AI-powered ways of operating and selling.

“Commerce is moving from systems that simply respond to human instructions toward systems that can increasingly understand, decide and act,” said Doug McNary, Chief Executive Officer at commercetools. “We’re proud to be named a Leader for the seventh consecutive year. Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between the flexibility they need today and the autonomy they’ll need tomorrow. Our focus is giving them the technology to support both.”

Over the past year, commercetools has introduced new products and capabilities designed to bring AI across the commerce lifecycle:

Sphere: Brings together commercetools’ AI-native infrastructure and agent governance through Commerce MCP into a unified platform for enterprises to build, operate and sell with AI.commercetools for Builders: Helps anyone build, extend and evolve enterprise commerce faster with AI.AgentSphere: Lets enterprises build and manage AI agents to run commerce operations and agentic shopping, with appropriate guardrails to do so safely and at scale.Modular commerce offerings: Gives enterprises the flexibility to start with the capabilities they need and expand over time, accelerating time to value without requiring a full commerce transformation upfront.Commerce Integration Layer: Centralizes integration logic behind customer-facing experiences. Storefronts, mobile apps and AI agents connect through a unified layer hosted and maintained by commercetools.Smart Data Modeler: Uses AI to accelerate product data modeling, helping teams build the right foundation faster and reduce time-to-launch.

commercetools’ customers include large enterprises across retail, manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare and telecommunications in markets around the world.

To learn more about commercetools’ position as a Leader, download your complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant report today.

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce Platforms, Aditya Vasudevan, Penny Gillespie, Sandy Shen, Jason Daigler, Mike Lowndes, 19 October 2026

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Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About commercetools

commercetools, the global digital commerce AI company, helps enterprises transform commerce for the AI era. Built API-native from the start and AI-first by design, our technology enables agentic shopping experiences, automates commerce operations and gives businesses the agility to modernize faster, innovate continuously and operate more intelligently.

More than 500 global brands, retailers and enterprise companies rely on commercetools to power their digital commerce. Together, they process more than $100 billion in annualized GMV, over 700 million orders and more than one billion customer records on our platform.

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Phylo’s Biomni Lab to expand the use of AI agents in scientific research at Bayer

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phylo, Inc. announced today a partnership with Bayer to deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo’s agentic AI platform to accelerate scientific research and evaluation. 

Under the agreement, Phylo will provide Bayer with full access to its agentic platform that helps Bayer scientists bring together scientific literature, biomedical data, and analytical methods in one environment, reducing the manual effort required to assemble and assess evidence. The platform’s inspectable workflows preserve the context behind each result, allowing researchers to review the underlying sources, methods, and execution and apply their own scientific judgment. Bayer scientists will gain access to Biomni Lab for workflows focused on assembling literature and omics evidence for drug discovery.

“This partnership reflects our belief that AI should expand scientific curiosity, not just speed up routine work. Giving our scientists an AI partner that brings rigor to every step lets them explore more ideas, ask bolder questions, and find the insights that move drug discovery forward, ultimately accelerating the pace at which we can bring new medicines to patients,” said Sai Jasti, Senior Vice President, Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Bayer Pharmaceuticals R&D.

“For agentic AI to matter in research, it has to earn the trust of the scientists doing the work. Bayer’s selection of Biomni Lab is a strong endorsement of the scientific rigor and AI capabilities we’ve built into the platform,” said Kexin Huang, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Phylo. “Our vision is an AI-native operating system for biopharma, where every scientist can direct a team of AI agents to pursue complex research questions. With Bayer, we aim to show what becomes possible when AI capabilities meet deep scientific expertise: more hypotheses explored, more discoveries made, and new possibilities for medicine.”

About Phylo

Phylo’s mission is to bring the best agentic intelligence to every biomedical scientist. Its enterprise-grade AI platform, Biomni Lab, is the first Integrated Biology Environment—a unified workspace where scientists collaborate with AI agents across literature research, experimental design, biological data analysis, and scientific decision-making.

Biomni Lab is now used by leading global biopharma, including Bayer, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Ono Pharmaceutical. Phylo is based in South San Francisco, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Menlo Ventures.

For more information, visit phylo.bio. To learn more about Biomni Lab, visit biomni.phylo.bio.

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Sandler Partners Welcomes Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region

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New Hire Announcement | Independent Technology Distributor Sandler Partners grows its Sales Engineering team, adding Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sandler Partners, the leading independent Technology Solutions Distributor, announces the addition of Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region, further strengthening its dedicated sales engineering team and the technical support available to Partners in the West Region.

Bryan brings more than two decades of experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions, including enterprise and Cloud architecture roles at Lumen/Savvis and IBM focused on infrastructure modernization and customer success. His expertise spans automation, edge computing, disaster recovery, application performance monitoring (APM), and DevSecOps. In his role, Bryan will support Partners across the West Region, aligning early with them on strategy and leading thoughtful discovery to help them find the right fit for each client.

For Bryan, strong relationships and solid values guide his life and form the foundation of his professional success, a perspective that fits naturally within the Sandler Partners community. When he is not working, Bryan spends time with his family, including his wife, three sons, and a grandson, RVing, boating, and biking, along with pursuing his passion for freediving.

“Bryan brings the kind of hands-on experience our Partners value: he’s been in the room on complex deals and knows how to turn a customer’s needs into the right solution,” says Justin Marano, Chief Revenue Officer, Sandler Partners. “He came to Sandler for the freedom to work across best-of-breed Providers, and our Partners in the West will feel that right away. He’s collaborative, grounded, and focused on helping Partners win. I’m excited to have him on the team.”

“I’m excited to get to work alongside our Partners, helping them navigate complex opportunities and bring clarity to technical decisions,” says Bryan. “For me, it all comes back to relationships. When you build them on trust and shared values, the results follow for our Partners and their clients. That’s something that the Sandler community really embodies, and I look forward to getting to work with our Partners!”

About Sandler Partners
Sandler Partners helps empower its network of leading independent Sales Partners to deliver a comprehensive range of technology solutions to organizations worldwide, including Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Connectivity, Cloud, Colocation, Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and Continuity. Its community-focused approach enables Partners to identify the right solutions for customers quickly and objectively from a diverse portfolio of 220+ Providers. Partner sales agents, VARs, and MSPs gain access to an innovative suite of sales tools within the Sandler Portal—including SCOUT, Solutions Finder, Scout for Solutions, and the Marketing Center—several of which are AI-powered, all backed by a robust support network, dedicated Sales Engineering expertise, and rich marketing resources. Together, these tools and resources empower Partners to focus on what they do best: delivering quality, value, performance, innovative solutions, unmatched expertise, and exceptional service to their clients. Members of the Sandler Partners community also benefit from the industry’s strongest negotiated agreements and a dedicated team committed to ensuring commissions are accurately identified, tracked, and paid. For more information, visit www.sandlerpartners.com.

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