Hundreds of data centers on the way

Cloud has become biggest slice of an ever-growing pie

Just below the record of the year before

Despite the promise of the Edge, big hubs still hold all the cards

Makes more in profits than Google Cloud makes in revenue

Synergy Research says more than 100 hyperscale facilities were built in 2020, with hundreds more in the pipeline

Totaling almost $31 billion

26 have opened this year, and there are another 176 in the pipeline

Every cloud has a silver lining

But expect things to slow down later in the year...

And hyperscale data center spend for the year was up 11 percent

A further 151 are on their way too

Cloud pushes spending to new heights