China’s economy adds the equivalent of the UK’s total GDP every two years. It accounts for 25% to 30% of global economic growth according to Forbes. Its data centers follow this path also: Singapore bank DBS estimates a 20% CAGR in the growth of the national industry.

China is the second largest data center market in the world and it presented a sometimes confusing mix of strong centralism and local idiosyncrasy, of cities where staggering demand growth outstrips available supply and yet huge remote data centers are reportedly almost empty. So how do you read the Chinese market and develop strategies to build key opportunities there? How can you future-proof those strategies?