Manufacturing Data Center Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The Manufacturing Data Center Market is valued at USD 23.29 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 48.79 billion by 2035, up from USD 21.06 billion in 2025, a CAGR of 8.76% from 2025 to 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). What moves this money is manufacturers buying their own GPU (graphics processing unit) capacity instead of renting it: on 31 October 2025 Hyundai Motor Group, Samsung Electronics and SK Group each announced an AI factory of about 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, and Hyundai’s programme with NVIDIA and the Korean government alone is worth about USD 3 billion (Hyundai Motor Group, October 2025). Plants also keep data close because they are the first target of extortion: manufacturing drew 25.2% of claimed ransomware deployments in the European Union (EU) in 2025, more than any other sector (ENISA, September 2026). The build receipt: 5,200 megawatts (MW) of information technology (IT) load in use by manufacturers in 2025 x USD 4.05 million of spending per MW = USD 21.06 billion, of which USD 15.30 billion is IT hardware and USD 3.03 billion is colocation and hosting fees. Industrial AI training and inference is the fastest workload at 18.88% a year, and Asia Pacific is the fastest region at 10.29% because Korea’s chip and car makers are building the largest private GPU halls in the sector.

Key Market Statistics: How Big Is the Manufacturing Data Center Market in 2026?

DC Market Insights puts manufacturing data center spending at USD 23.29 billion in 2026, 10.59% more than in 2025, as the Korean AI factories, the Munich industrial AI cloud and ransomware-proof second sites add load faster than old server rooms are retired.

• Manufacturing data center market size 2025: USD 21.06 billion
• Market size 2026: USD 23.29 billion
• Market size 2030: USD 34.69 billion
• Market size 2035: USD 48.79 billion
• CAGR 2025-2035: 8.76% (low case 7.13%, high case 10.10%)
• Largest component: IT hardware, USD 15.30 billion or 72.7% of 2025 value
• Fastest workload: industrial AI training and inference, 18.88% a year to USD 16.45 billion by 2035
• Largest industry: electronics and semiconductors, USD 5.06 billion in 2025, also the fastest industry at 10.45%
• Leading region: Asia Pacific, USD 8.00 billion or 38.0% of 2025 value, and the fastest at 10.29%
• Largest country: United States, USD 5.58 billion in 2025; fastest large country: India at 14.46%
• Market leaders: Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo in factory and corporate servers, and Schneider Electric and Vertiv in power and cooling (DC Market Insights assessment)

Executive Summary: Manufacturing Data Center Market Size, 2020-2035

The Global Manufacturing Data Center Market size was valued at USD 14.63 billion in 2020, reached USD 21.06 billion in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 48.79 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 8.76% during the forecast period. From 2020 to 2025 spending rose 7.56% a year as manufacturers added plant data rooms, engineering simulation clusters and recovery sites after ransomware attacks; the rate rises to 8.76% from 2025 because GPU racks lift spending per MW.

Attribute	Value
Historical period	2020-2024
Base year	2025
Forecast period	2026-2035
Market size 2025	USD 21.06 billion
Market size 2026	USD 23.29 billion
CAGR 2025-2035	8.76%
Market size 2035	USD 48.79 billion
Segments covered	Component, industry, workload, deployment model, region, 12 countries

Growth comes in two steps. Up to 2027 the Korean and Taiwanese AI factories carry the rise: DC Market Insights counts 171,216 GPUs announced by eight manufacturers and their partners, about 325 MW of IT load. After 2028 the spread of digital twins and plant data platforms under the EU Data Act carries it, and plant edge rooms grow to USD 11.71 billion by 2035.

What Counts as Manufacturing Data Center Spending?

The market is the USD 21.06 billion that manufacturers spent in 2025 on data center capacity they own or lease for their own systems.

Included: servers, storage and network gear in manufacturers’ corporate data centers and plant rooms; GPU clusters owned by manufacturers (AI factories); colocation, wholesale and hosted private cloud capacity leased by manufacturers; electrical and mechanical plant (uninterruptible power supply or UPS, switchgear, cooling) in owned sites; construction, prefabricated enclosures and tenant fit-out. Buyers range from global groups to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with one plant room.

Excluded: public cloud service fees, manufacturing execution system (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software licences, operational technology (OT) such as controllers, robots and sensors, factory electricity bills, and GPU capacity a manufacturer rents by the hour from a public cloud.

How the segments fit together: the component split (USD 15.30 billion IT hardware, USD 3.03 billion colocation and hosting, USD 2.03 billion electrical and mechanical, USD 693.34 million construction) sums to USD 21.06 billion; the industry, workload, deployment-model, region and country splits each sum to the same total.

Why Do Manufacturing Data Center Market Estimates Differ?

DC Market Insights values the market at USD 23.29 billion in 2026 counting only data center capacity that manufacturers own or lease; broader estimates come out larger because they add services that sit outside the building.

Wider definitions add manufacturers’ public cloud bills, industrial internet of things (IIoT) platforms, MES and ERP software subscriptions, OT network equipment on the shop floor and the electricity that runs the halls. Some also count every server shipped to a manufacturing customer, even when it sits on a desk or a production line rather than in a data room. Those items are left out here because they are bought on different budgets and priced per user, per device or per kilowatt-hour, not per MW of data center load.

Element	In this estimate	Why
Corporate and plant data center IT hardware	Yes, USD 15.30 billion	Bought per MW of data center load
Colocation and hosted private cloud leased by manufacturers	Yes, USD 3.03 billion	Priced per kilowatt (kW) per month
Power, cooling and buildings of owned sites	Yes, USD 2.73 billion	Capital spending on the site
Public cloud service fees	No	Usage-priced service, not capacity
MES, ERP and IIoT software	No	Priced per user or device
Robots, controllers and shop-floor OT networks	No	Plant equipment, not data center
Electricity for the halls	No	Operating cost of energy

In scope are SMEs with a single plant room as well as global groups; out of scope are public cloud fees, MES licences, IIoT platforms, robots and electricity, even when a broader market name includes them.

Manufacturing Data Center Market Drivers: Why Are Factories Buying Compute?

Three forces add about USD 27.73 billion of yearly spending between 2025 and 2035: private AI factories, ransomware recovery and new rules on machine data.

Korea’s 150,000-GPU AI Factories at Samsung, SK and Hyundai

On 31 October 2025 NVIDIA said Korea’s government and industrial groups were adding more than 260,000 GPUs, and three manufacturers took 150,000 of them: Samsung Electronics is building a semiconductor AI factory with more than 50,000 GPUs, SK Group an AI factory with more than 50,000 GPUs whose first phase is due by late 2027, and Hyundai Motor Group a Blackwell factory with 50,000 GPUs (NVIDIA and company releases, October 2025). The Korean government then set a 20 trillion won public and private budget for manufacturing AI transformation (M.AX) to 2030 (Government of Korea, June 2026). DC Market Insights converts the three projects into about 285 MW of AI IT load, which is why AI racks rise from 312 MW in 2025 to 2,496 MW by 2035 and South Korea grows 10.05% a year.

Ransomware Makes Manufacturing the Most-Hit Sector in Europe

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) recorded manufacturing as the most affected sector across all cybercrime incidents in 2025, at 14.4%, with 25.2% of claimed ransomware deployments; ransomware was 82.8% of financially motivated attacks on the sector. In the United States, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 3,600 ransomware complaints in 2025 and named Critical Manufacturing first among the sectors hit by the top ten variants. Plants answer with isolated backup halls and second sites, which keeps backup, recovery and other workloads at USD 6.48 billion by 2035 and holds corporate data centers at USD 17.08 billion even as leasing grows.

EU Data Act and NIS2 Turn Machine Data Into a Regulated Asset

Since 12 September 2025 the EU Data Act gives users in industries such as manufacturing access to performance data from their industrial equipment (European Commission, September 2025). The Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), due in national law from 17 October 2024, brings medium and large makers of computers, electronics, machinery and motor vehicles into scope. Both rules push plants to store machine data in places they control, which is why plant data and digital twins grow 10.05% a year to USD 8.78 billion by 2035 and Germany, Europe’s largest manufacturer with about USD 890 billion of value added in 2025 (World Bank), reaches USD 2.73 billion.

Manufacturing Data Center Market Trends: How Are Plants Changing Their Compute?

Manufacturers now share GPU halls, run AI on the plant floor and fold AI into national industrial plans; colocation and hosted private cloud rises from 27.0% of spending in 2025 to 41.0% in 2035.

Shared Industrial AI Clouds in Munich and Taipei

Deutsche Telekom installed 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs in its Munich data center for an Industrial AI Cloud open to customers from the first quarter of 2026, and BMW Group, Mercedes-Benz, Maserati and Schaeffler are named users (Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA, 2025-2026). In Taiwan, Foxconn is investing USD 1.4 billion in a supercomputing center with 10,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, run by its subsidiary Big Innovation Company as an NVIDIA cloud partner with TSMC researchers as users (Foxconn, May and November 2025). Mid-sized plants that cannot fill a 70 MW hall rent racks in these shared halls, so colocation and hosting is the fastest component at 12.03% a year.

China’s 13,000 Smart Factories and 2,592 EFLOPS of AI Compute

China’s State Council reported on 20 October 2026 that the country has built more than 13,000 advanced-level smart factories and that its smart computing power reached 2,592 exaflops (EFLOPS) at the end of September 2026, up 146% in a year. The August 2025 AI Plus guideline targets more than 70% penetration of AI agents and intelligent terminals by 2027. China is the largest manufacturer, with about USD 4.82 trillion of value added in 2025 (World Bank), and DC Market Insights puts its manufacturing data center market at USD 3.16 billion in 2025, growing 9.80% a year.

Pharmaceutical Plants Get Their Own AI Factories

Eli Lilly’s LillyPod, a DGX SuperPOD with 1,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, went live on 26 February 2026 and will be used across clinical development and manufacturing (NVIDIA, February 2026). DC Market Insights counts such process-industry clusters in the chemicals and materials and other manufacturing segments, which together reach USD 13.90 billion by 2035.

Manufacturing Data Center Market Challenges: What Slows Factory Data Centers?

Energy reporting and thin AI skills slow the market; without them DC Market Insights’ high case of USD 55.13 billion by 2035 would be the base.

EU Energy Reporting Reaches In-House Halls Above 500 kW

Under Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), every data centre with at least 500 kilowatts (kW) of installed IT power, in-house halls included, must publish its energy data; only 770 sites, about 36% of those covered, reported in the first round, and EU data centres used 68 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2024 on a path to 114 TWh by 2030 (European Commission data centre energy report, September 2026). Germany applies a lower 300 kW threshold. Reporting costs and efficiency targets push European plants to close old server rooms rather than expand them, which keeps Europe’s growth at 7.32% a year, the slowest of the five regions.

Low AI Uptake Outside Electronics

Eurostat found that 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used AI in 2025, and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) reported in October 2026 that electronics firms rose from 12% to 30% between 2021 and 2025 while manufacturing overall stays low. Korea’s M.AX plan budgets for 30,000 trained specialists for the same reason. DC Market Insights holds food and beverage to 7.49% a year and chemicals and materials to 7.10%, against 10.45% for electronics and semiconductors.

Manufacturing Data Center Market Opportunities: Where Is the New Money?

Plant edge rooms and hosted GPU capacity add USD 22.02 billion of yearly spending between 2025 and 2035.

Plant Edge and Micro Data Centers for Vision Inspection and Digital Twins

Plant edge and micro data centers grow from USD 4.00 billion in 2025 to USD 11.71 billion by 2035, 11.33% a year. Sealed, ingress-protection-rated enclosures such as Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Micro Data Center R-Series (16U to 42U) and Siemens’ Industrial Edge platform put inference next to the line, where camera inspection and robot control cannot wait for a round trip to a distant cloud region. The plant share of manufacturing load rises from 19% to 24% (DC Market Insights estimate); the wider Edge Data Center Market covers all edge buyers.

Hosted GPU Capacity for Mid-Sized Manufacturers

Colocation and hosted private cloud spending by manufacturers rises from USD 5.69 billion to USD 20.00 billion by 2035. Telekom’s Munich cloud is aimed at industrial companies and SMEs, and the EU opened a call on 30 July 2026 for up to seven AI Gigafactories with up to EUR 10 billion of public money and industry among the intended users. Operators that sell sovereign, plant-adjacent GPU racks to automotive suppliers and machinery makers win this money; the Data Center Colocation Market gives the full operator picture.

Manufacturing Data Center Pricing: What Does One MW Cost a Manufacturer?

A manufacturer spent about USD 4.05 million per MW of IT load in 2025, rising to USD 5.08 million by 2035 as GPU racks take a larger share.

Year	Manufacturing IT load in use (MW)	Total spend per MW	IT hardware per MW	Colocation and hosting rate (USD per kW-month)
2020	4,400	USD 3.32 million	USD 2.51 million	USD 165
2025	5,200	USD 4.05 million	USD 2.94 million	USD 180
2030	7,100	USD 4.89 million	USD 3.37 million	USD 192
2035	9,600	USD 5.08 million	USD 3.51 million	USD 200

Public anchors: Foxconn’s USD 1.4 billion for a 10,000-GPU center works out at USD 140,000 per installed GPU including the building; at DC Market Insights’ conversion of 1.9 kW of IT load per Blackwell-class GPU that is about USD 74 million per MW, more than ten times the conventional rate. Hyundai’s programme with NVIDIA and the Korean government is about USD 3 billion. DC Market Insights uses USD 8.00 million of AI hardware per AI MW-year and USD 2.62 million per conventional MW-year in 2025.

Standards and Regulation for Manufacturing Data Centers

Eight rules and standards shape where a manufacturer puts its USD 21.06 billion of yearly data center spending.

EU Data Act

Applies from 12 September 2025; users of connected industrial machinery may access, use and share the raw data the machines generate.

NIS2 Directive

Brings medium and large makers of medical devices, computers and electronics, machinery and vehicles into EU cybersecurity duties; national transposition was due by 17 October 2024.

Energy Efficiency Directive Article 12

Data centres of at least 500 kW of IT power report energy data to the EU database every year by 15 May; Germany uses 300 kW.

ISA/IEC 62443

The international series for industrial automation and control system security, used to separate plant networks from corporate data halls.

ISO/IEC 27001

Information security management certification that automotive and electronics customers ask of their suppliers’ data centers.

ANSI/TIA-942 and Tier Ratings

Design standards for data center availability used when manufacturers build or lease second sites.

US Critical Manufacturing Sector

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) lists Critical Manufacturing among 16 critical infrastructure sectors, covering primary metals, machinery, electrical equipment and transport equipment.

CHIPS and Science Act

Directs USD 39 billion of incentives to semiconductor plants and equipment and USD 11 billion to research, adding fabs whose process control and yield analytics need on-site compute (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST).

Manufacturing Data Center Market Segmentation: Which Segment Is Largest?

IT hardware is the largest component at USD 15.30 billion in 2025, electronics and semiconductors the largest industry at USD 5.06 billion, and industrial AI training and inference the fastest workload at 18.88% a year.

By Component

Colocation and hosting services grow fastest among components, at 12.03% a year to USD 9.45 billion, as mid-sized plants rent GPU racks rather than build halls.

Component	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
IT Hardware	USD 15,302.57 million	72.7%	USD 33,661.44 million	8.20%
Colocation and Hosting Services	USD 3,032.64 million	14.4%	USD 9,446.40 million	12.03%
Electrical and Mechanical Infrastructure	USD 2,034.43 million	9.7%	USD 3,975.60 million	6.93%
Construction and Fit-Out	USD 693.34 million	3.3%	USD 1,704.76 million	9.41%

By Industry

Electronics and semiconductors hold 24.0% of 2025 spending and grow 10.45% a year because Samsung, SK hynix and Foxconn run the largest manufacturer GPU halls; automotive follows at USD 4.21 billion.

Industry	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Electronics and Semiconductors	USD 5,055.10 million	24.0%	USD 13,660.70 million	10.45%
Automotive and Transportation Equipment	USD 4,212.60 million	20.0%	USD 9,757.64 million	8.76%
Industrial Machinery and Equipment	USD 3,370.08 million	16.0%	USD 7,562.17 million	8.42%
Chemicals and Materials	USD 2,948.82 million	14.0%	USD 5,854.58 million	7.10%
Food and Beverage	USD 1,895.67 million	9.0%	USD 3,903.06 million	7.49%
Other Manufacturing	USD 3,580.71 million	17.0%	USD 8,050.05 million	8.44%

By Workload

ERP and business systems are the largest workload, ahead of engineering simulation and product lifecycle management (PLM), at USD 6.32 billion in 2025, but industrial AI training and inference overtakes them by 2035 at USD 16.45 billion.

Workload	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
ERP and Business Systems	USD 6,318.89 million	30.0%	USD 10,245.52 million	4.95%
Engineering Simulation and PLM	USD 3,580.71 million	17.0%	USD 6,830.35 million	6.67%
Industrial AI Training and Inference	USD 2,917.22 million	13.8%	USD 16,451.38 million	18.88%
Plant Data and Digital Twins	USD 3,370.08 million	16.0%	USD 8,781.88 million	10.05%
Backup Recovery and Other Workloads	USD 4,876.08 million	23.2%	USD 6,479.07 million	2.88%

By Deployment Model

Corporate data centers hold 54.0% of 2025 spending; colocation and hosted private cloud grows fastest at 13.40% and becomes the largest model by 2035.

Deployment Model	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Corporate Data Centers	USD 11,374.01 million	54.0%	USD 17,075.87 million	4.15%
Plant Edge and Micro Data Centers	USD 4,001.97 million	19.0%	USD 11,709.17 million	11.33%
Colocation and Hosted Private Cloud	USD 5,687.00 million	27.0%	USD 20,003.16 million	13.40%

DC Exclusive: Manufacturer AI Factory Tracker, 8 Projects and 171,216 GPUs

This tracker is a DC Market Insights model built from 8 inputs, one per named project: 171,216 GPUs announced by manufacturers and their partners between 2019 and 2026, which DC Market Insights converts into about 325 MW of modelled IT load at 1.9 kW per GPU. 6 of the 8 are halls the manufacturer owns, one is a shared industrial cloud and one is built with a telecom partner. The modelled load equals 13% of the 2,496 MW of manufacturing AI racks DC Market Insights expects in 2035, so the tracker explains the first wave, not the whole forecast. GPU counts are the companies’ own figures; the MW column is a DC Market Insights estimate, not a disclosed number.

Company	Project	Announced	GPUs	Modelled IT load (MW)	Type
Hyundai Motor Group	NVIDIA Blackwell AI factory for autonomous driving, smart factories and robotics, Korea	Oct 2025	50,000	95.0	Own AI factory
Samsung Electronics	Semiconductor AI Megafactory across memory, logic, foundry and packaging	Oct 2025	50,000	95.0	Own AI factory
SK Group (SK hynix)	AI factory plus Manufacturing AI Cloud at Icheon, later Yongin; phase 1 by late 2027	Oct 2025	50,000	95.0	Own AI factory
Foxconn (Hon Hai)	USD 1.4 billion supercomputing center, Taiwan; GPU cloud partner used by TSMC researchers	Nov 2025	10,000	19.0	Own AI factory sold as cloud
Deutsche Telekom with NVIDIA	Industrial AI Cloud in Munich for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Maserati and Schaeffler	Feb 2026	10,000	19.0	Shared industrial cloud
Eli Lilly	LillyPod DGX SuperPOD, Indianapolis, for discovery, clinical development and manufacturing	Feb 2026	1,016	1.9	Own AI factory
BMW Group	High Performance D3 data platform near Munich, 230 petabytes	Mar 2019	200	0.4	Own data center
Toyota with NTT	Mobility AI Platform with distributed data centers, JPY 500 billion by 2030	Oct 2024	not disclosed	n/a	Partner-built data centers

Reading the tracker: Korea holds 88% of the GPUs, Europe’s two entries total 10,200 GPUs, and no US manufacturer has yet disclosed a cluster of comparable size, which is one reason North America grows 7.62% a year against Asia Pacific’s 10.29%. Rack-scale AI halls themselves are sized in the AI Data Center Market.

Regional Insights: Which Region Leads the Manufacturing Data Center Market?

Asia Pacific leads with USD 8.00 billion or 38.0% of 2025 spending and is also the fastest region at 10.29% a year; North America follows with USD 6.32 billion.

Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Asia Pacific	USD 8,003.94 million	38.0%	USD 21,320.45 million	10.29%
North America	USD 6,318.89 million	30.0%	USD 13,172.81 million	7.62%
Europe	USD 5,055.12 million	24.0%	USD 10,245.52 million	7.32%
Latin America	USD 947.83 million	4.5%	USD 2,195.47 million	8.76%
Middle East and Africa	USD 737.20 million	3.5%	USD 1,853.95 million	9.66%

Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific grows from USD 8.00 billion to USD 21.32 billion. China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India hold most of the world’s electronics and battery output, and South Korea’s three 50,000-GPU factories make it one of the region’s fastest large markets at 10.05% a year.

North America

North America reaches USD 13.17 billion by 2035 at 7.62% a year. The latest World Bank figure puts US manufacturing value added at USD 2.50 trillion (2021), and the CHIPS Act’s USD 39 billion of incentives adds fabs that need on-site compute.

Europe

Europe grows 7.32% a year to USD 10.25 billion. The EU’s 19 AI Factories, the Munich industrial cloud and the Data Act raise demand, while EED energy reporting pushes plants toward shared halls instead of new rooms.

Latin America

Latin America grows from USD 947.83 million to USD 2.20 billion. Mexico, with about USD 366 billion of manufacturing value added in 2025, and Brazil, with USD 268 billion (World Bank), carry most of it as automotive and electronics plants near-shore to supply North America.

Middle East and Africa

The Middle East and Africa grows 9.66% a year to USD 1.85 billion, the second-fastest region, as petrochemical, metals and food plants in the Gulf states move control and planning systems into new national data centers.

Country Analysis: Top 12 Countries in the Manufacturing Data Center Market

The United States is the largest country at USD 5.58 billion in 2025 and China second at USD 3.16 billion; India is the fastest large country at 14.46% a year.

Rank	Country	Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
1	United States	North America	USD 5,581.69 million	26.5%	USD 11,465.23 million	7.46%
2	China	Asia Pacific	USD 3,159.45 million	15.0%	USD 8,050.05 million	9.80%
3	Japan	Asia Pacific	USD 1,474.41 million	7.0%	USD 3,024.87 million	7.45%
4	Germany	Europe	USD 1,369.09 million	6.5%	USD 2,732.14 million	7.15%
5	South Korea	Asia Pacific	USD 1,011.02 million	4.8%	USD 2,634.56 million	10.05%
6	Taiwan	Asia Pacific	USD 758.27 million	3.6%	USD 2,049.10 million	10.45%
7	India	Asia Pacific	USD 631.89 million	3.0%	USD 2,439.41 million	14.46%
8	United Kingdom	Europe	USD 484.45 million	2.3%	USD 975.76 million	7.25%
9	France	Europe	USD 463.39 million	2.2%	USD 926.98 million	7.18%
10	Canada	North America	USD 421.26 million	2.0%	USD 926.98 million	8.21%
11	Italy	Europe	USD 421.26 million	2.0%	USD 829.40 million	7.01%
12	Brazil	Latin America	USD 337.01 million	1.6%	USD 780.61 million	8.76%

India’s manufacturing value added of about USD 533 billion in 2025 is now above South Korea’s USD 514 billion (World Bank), yet its manufacturing data center base is less than two-thirds of Korea’s, so DC Market Insights expects India to grow from USD 631.89 million to USD 2.44 billion.

Forecast Scenario Analysis: Manufacturing Data Center Market in 2035

The base case is USD 48.79 billion by 2035; the range runs from USD 41.96 billion to USD 55.13 billion.

Scenario	2035 size	CAGR 2025-2035	Assumption
Low	USD 41.96 billion	7.13%	Korean AI factories stop at phase 1 and AI rack share reaches 18% instead of 26%
Base	USD 48.79 billion	8.76%	AI share 26%, leased share 41%, 9,600 MW in use by 2035
High	USD 55.13 billion	10.10%	EU AI Gigafactories and Korea’s M.AX programme double manufacturer GPU halls by 2030

Competitive Insights: Key Players in the Manufacturing Data Center Market

The five largest server suppliers to manufacturers hold about 48% of the USD 15.30 billion of IT hardware spending in 2025 (DC Market Insights estimate based on supplier shares of enterprise server shipments), while power, cooling and enclosure work is spread across more suppliers.

• Dell Technologies
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Lenovo
• Inspur
• Super Micro Computer
• NVIDIA
• Schneider Electric
• Vertiv
• Eaton
• ABB
• Rittal
• Siemens
• Equinix
• Digital Realty
• Deutsche Telekom
• NTT DATA
• Foxconn

Vertiv reported 2025 net sales of USD 10.23 billion and a backlog of USD 15.0 billion, up 109%, and guided 2026 sales of USD 13.25 billion to USD 13.75 billion (Vertiv, February 2026). Schneider Electric’s 2025 revenue was EUR 40.15 billion, with strong demand from semiconductor, energy and chemicals customers (Schneider Electric, February 2026). ABB’s 2025 revenue rose 9% to USD 33.22 billion, led by data centers in Electrification (ABB, January 2026), and Rittal’s parent Friedhelm Loh Group earned EUR 3.2 billion. Among operators, Digital Realty’s 2025 annual report names manufacturing among its customer industries across more than 5,000 customers, and Equinix lists smart manufacturing among the workflows that depend on its interconnection across 280 data centers.

Recent Developments in the Manufacturing Data Center Market

Six dated moves from October 2025 to October 2026 shape the USD 23.29 billion market in 2026.

• In October 2026, China said it had built more than 13,000 advanced-level smart factories and reached 2,592 EFLOPS of smart computing power (Source: State Council of China).
• In September 2026, ENISA reported that manufacturing took 25.2% of claimed ransomware deployments in the EU in 2025 (Source: ENISA annual threat report).
• In July 2026, the EU opened its call for up to seven AI Gigafactories with up to EUR 10 billion of public funding (Source: European Commission).
• In June 2026, Korea set a 20 trillion won budget for manufacturing AI transformation to 2030 (Source: Ministry of Science and ICT).
• In February 2026, Deutsche Telekom launched its Munich Industrial AI Cloud with 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs, and Eli Lilly’s 1,016-GPU LillyPod went live (Source: Deutsche Telekom; NVIDIA).
• In October 2025, Samsung, SK Group and Hyundai Motor Group each announced AI factories of about 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs (Source: NVIDIA; Hyundai Motor Group).

Research Methodology: How DC Market Insights Sized the Manufacturing Data Center Market

The model multiplies 5,200 MW of manufacturing IT load in 2025 by spending per MW for each component, giving USD 21.06 billion.

Manufacturing IT load is about 11% of the roughly 46 gigawatts (GW) of enterprise and colocation capacity inside the 116 GW installed worldwide in 2025 (DC Market Insights capacity base). IT hardware = conventional MW x USD 2.62 million + AI MW (312) x USD 8.00 million = USD 15.30 billion. Colocation and hosting = 1,404 leased MW x USD 180 per kW-month x 12 = USD 3.03 billion. Owned sites add USD 2,034.43 million of electrical and mechanical work and USD 693.34 million of construction and fit-out. Industry, workload, deployment-model, region and country splits are DC Market Insights shares; every split sums to the total each year.

Bound checks: (1) the market is 3.7% of the USD 570.04 billion 2025 data center market in DC Market Insights’ global model, below the BFSI vertical’s 5.9% in the BFSI Data Center Market; (2) manufacturing colocation and hosting of USD 3.03 billion is 4.1% of the USD 74.46 billion colocation market in 2025; (3) as a ceiling, USD 21.06 billion is 0.12% of the USD 17.60 trillion of world manufacturing value added in 2025 (World Bank), and as a floor, China’s 13,000 advanced smart factories x USD 0.10 million a year of minimum plant data room upkeep = USD 1.30 billion, below the USD 3.16 billion China estimate. Full method: DC Market Insights research methodology.