The Asia-Pacific data center market is continuing to balloon. About 76% of respondents to a recent survey conducted on behalf of the US-based data center wholesaler Digital Realty Trust said they either had set data center expansion plans in motion or were considering expanding capacity in 2012.

This is in light of the fact that 64% said they had just built a new data center within the past two years.

Kris Kumar, who oversees the Asia-Pacific region for Digital, said the results of the study confirmed high demand for data center space the company has been seeing in the region.

“We believe this growth is primarily being driven by global enterprises seeking to establish or expand their technical operations in the Asia Pacific region, as well as by companies based in the region with expanding computing requirements to support their rapid growth,” Kumar said.

Of all emerging markets, Asia Pacific draws the most attention from Digital, the company’s CEO Mike Foust told one of our contributing authors Luke Denmon earlier this year. It entered the region in the fourth quarter of 2010 with acquisition of a massive newly built data center campus in Singapore.

The company has since expanded into Australia with data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, and Hong Kong is next on the list. In Digital’s 2011 earnings call, Foust said the company’s leadership expected to enter the Hong Kong market before the end of 2012.

Survey of senior decision makers Campos conducted on behalf of Digital also revealed that more than 80% of companies in the Asia Pacific who are planning to expad their data centers plan to use either a wholesale data center provider or a design and build partner. Digital can do both.

Interestingly, 14% of respondents said they would use a containerized data center solution.