2017-2018 Annual Report on China IDC Markert (Beijing)

EXCECUTIVE SUMMARY

Market Size

In 2017 Beijing IDC market reached a size of 1X.X billion Chinese Yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 2X.X%, which is slightly lower than last comparative period.

Figure 1: Beijing IDC Market Size (2013~2017)

Features

Total number of cabinets in Beijing has reached 2XX thousand in 2017. The infrastructure level of IDC has been consistently improved as XX% of newly constructed DCs by carrier-neutral are parallel to UPTIME TIER Ⅲ standards or above. Cabinets of medium and high power density have become more adopted and consisted of XX%. 

Figure 2: Beijing Cabinet Power Density Distribution (2017)

Beijing IDC markets has become more consolidated, with Tier-1 players consisting of XX% the market. Top players, especially carrier-neutral providers, continued to expand their DC capacity to cater for growing demand and enhance their market performance.

Companies from other industries such as manufacturing are driven by the prosperity of IDC industry and their presence in the market through M&A activities has made the competition even stiffer.

Beijing government imposed higher requirement on the power consumption of local data centers. Application for constructing data centers of PUE 1.5 or above would not be approved by local authorities.

Figure 3: Revenue of Beijing IDC service providers (2017)

With major Chinese internet giants headquartered in Beijing, internet industry is the dominant industry demanding for IDC services and they altogether accounted for XX% of Beijing IDC market in 2017.

Figure 4: Beijing IDC Market Share By Vertical (2017)