Report Title: Shanghai and Surrounding Areas Data Center Market Research Report (2024–2025)
Publication Date: May 2025
Format: PDF
Language: English
Price: USD 7,800
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of China’s National IDC Industry
Macro industry environment; national market scale & business composition; domestic development features and trends
Chapter 2. Regional IDC Development Environment of Shanghai and Surroundings
Local industrial policies; Yangtze River Delta digital economy; land, power and network supporting resources
Chapter 3. Current Regional IDC Market Status
Regional market scale; market structure; cabinet supply-demand balance
Chapter 4. Regional IDC Demand Segmentation
Overall market demand; internet enterprise requirements; cloud vendor compute needs; traditional financial & industrial demand
Chapter 5. Regional Cabinet Resource Supply Analysis
Regional rack distribution; cabinet rental price trend; facility utilization rate; new rack capacity forecast (2025–2027)
Chapter 6. Regional IDC Competitive Landscape
Market share pattern; resource layout of all service providers; industrial competition evolution trends
Chapter 7. Market Forecast & Long-Term Development Outlook
Future industrial layout; 2025–2027 market scale forecast; regional investment opportunities
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The regional IDC market reached RMB 22.93 billion in 2024, up 7.8% year-on-year with obvious growth recovery. AIGC industry expansion, domestic financial IT replacement and cloud giants’ peripheral deployment jointly lift overall market demand.AI enterprises and banking institutions become two core incremental demand groups in the Yangtze River Delta.
Total operational racks across the region reached 372,000 by the end of 2024, adding 36,000 racks year-on-year.Shanghai city owns 281,000 racks, while Taicang, Kunshan, Nantong and Jiaxing hold 91,400 racks as major spillover carriers.Telecom carriers and top third-party firms keep expanding large-scale compute parks in peripheral satellite cities.
Internet and cloud vendors dominate regional IDC demand, supported by booming large model training workloads.Financial industry’s dual-system parallel transformation generates stable supplementary hosting requirements.High-latency-sensitive AI inference workloads raise demand for short-distance Shanghai peripheral data centers.
Cabinet rental prices declined slightly in 2024 due to faster supply growth than incremental demand.Head vendors including GDS, Vast Data and Century Internet grab 44.7% of total market share.Traditional IDC operators speed up transformation to liquid-cooled AIDC and customized AI computing services.
Open-source large models such as DeepSeek greatly lower AI deployment thresholds for small and medium enterprises.Cloud elastic computing and dedicated AI cabinet leasing both gain new incremental demand from industrial clients.Rising inference workloads further boost the investment value of Shanghai and surrounding low-latency compute hubs.
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