Bangladesh Data Center Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The Bangladesh Data Center Market is valued at USD 266.53 million in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 2.49 billion by 2035, up from USD 217.51 million in 2025, a CAGR of 27.59% from 2025 to 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). The market covers the capital spend on data centers located in Bangladesh: the IT infrastructure installed in them (servers, storage and networking), power solutions, cooling systems and general construction. The 2025 build receipt is 8 megawatts (MW) of new IT capacity × USD 7.00 million of facility content per MW = USD 56.00 million, plus 0.40 MW of new artificial intelligence (AI) capacity × USD 35.00 million of IT fit-out per MW = USD 14.00 million, plus USD 147.51 million of IT refresh and replacement on about 58 MW of installed capacity at the start of the year. AI Workloads are the fastest-growing segment at 53.43% a year as cloud and AI tenants move into hyperscale halls at Kaliakoir, and the Rajshahi and Other Divisions group is the fastest-growing region at 39.26% a year because the proposed AI campus in the Sirajganj Economic Zone and Summit Group’s power-linked sites move capacity away from Dhaka.

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

DC Market Insights values the Bangladesh Data Center Market at USD 266.53 million in 2026, 22.5% above the USD 217.51 million of 2025, as new IT capacity rises from 8 MW to 10 MW and AI halls take 8% of it.

• Market size 2025: USD 217.51 million
• Market size 2026: USD 266.53 million
• Market size 2030: USD 1.04 billion
• Market size 2035: USD 2.49 billion
• CAGR 2025-2035: 27.59% (low case 21.75%, high case 32.17%)
• Largest component: IT Infrastructure, 74.25% of 2025 spend (USD 161.51 million)
• Fastest segment: AI Workloads, 53.43% a year (USD 20.23 million in 2025 to USD 1.46 billion by 2035)
• Leading region: Dhaka Division, 70.00% of 2025 spend; fastest-growing region: Rajshahi and Other Divisions, 39.26%
• Largest hub: Dhaka City, USD 69.60 million in 2025
• Market leader: Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL), about 12% of 2025 spend (DC Market Insights estimate)

Bangladesh Data Center Market Summary: What Did Bangladesh Spend on Data Centers in 2025?

Bangladesh spent USD 217.51 million on data center infrastructure in 2025. The Bangladesh Data Center Market size was valued at USD 101.00 million in 2020, reached USD 217.51 million in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 2.49 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 27.59% during the forecast period. Between 2020 and 2025 the market grew at 16.58% a year, as Tier III and Tier IV colocation sites opened in Jashore, Sylhet and Dhaka and installed IT capacity roughly doubled from about 33 MW to about 65 MW.

Report Attribute	Details
Historical Period	2020-2024
Base Year	2025
Forecast Period	2026-2035
Bangladesh Data Center Market Size 2025	USD 217.51 million
Bangladesh Data Center Market Size 2026	USD 266.53 million
Bangladesh Data Center Market CAGR (2025-2035)	27.59%
Bangladesh Data Center Market Size 2035	USD 2.49 billion

DC Market Insights estimates that new Bangladeshi IT capacity rises from 8 MW in 2025 to 38 MW in 2030 and 58 MW in 2035, lifting the market to USD 1.04 billion in 2030. The 365 MW the model adds from 2026 to 2035 is about 58% of the roughly 630 MW that Summit Group, ADIC and Yotta have linked to data center plans in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a 0.04% slice of the Data Center Market in 2025, and the facility layer alone is sized in the Bangladesh Data Center Infrastructure Market report.

Key takeaways:

• USD 217.51 million in 2025, USD 266.53 million in 2026 and USD 2.49 billion by 2035, a 27.59% CAGR.
• IT Infrastructure is the largest component at 74.25% (USD 161.51 million) because servers and storage are refreshed every year across about 65 MW of installed capacity.
• Dhaka Division leads with 70.00% of 2025 spend; Rajshahi and Other Divisions grow fastest at 39.26%.
• A Bangladeshi data center costs about USD 7.00 million per MW to build in 2025 before servers, and a standard rack rents for Tk 100,000 to Tk 160,000 a month.
• Power is the binding limit: the grid faced a 3,000 MW shortfall in April 2026, and the June 2026 tariff rise lifted the average retail rate by 16.7%.

What Is the Bangladesh Data Center Market, and What Does It Cover?

The Bangladesh Data Center Market is the annual capital spend on data centers located in Bangladesh, USD 217.51 million in 2025, across about 65 MW of installed IT capacity at the end of the year (DC Market Insights estimate). A data center in Bangladesh is a secured building or hall that houses servers, storage and network equipment with redundant power and cooling, from the 604-rack Tier IV National Data Center at Kaliakoir to bank-owned server rooms in Motijheel (Source: BDCCL).

Included

• IT Infrastructure: servers, AI accelerator servers, storage and networking installed in Bangladeshi data centers, new and replacement.
• Power Solutions: substations, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, generators, switchgear and power distribution.
• Cooling Systems: chillers, computer room air handlers, in-row and liquid cooling.
• General Construction: shell, fit-out, fire protection, security and commissioning.

Excluded

• Land, electricity bills and fuel for generators.
• Colocation, cloud and managed-hosting service revenue (the rent a tenant pays is a different market from the capital spend behind it).
• Captive power plants built next to data centers, such as the 100 MW plant in the ADIC proposal.

How the segments fit together

Every split in this report sums to the same total: four components (IT USD 161.51 million, power USD 25.20 million, cooling USD 11.20 million, construction USD 19.60 million in 2025), two workloads, three data center types, five end users and five geographic divisions. The boundary with the Data Center Market is geographic only: the same unit values are used, so Bangladesh is a consistent slice of the global total.

Why Do Bangladesh Data Center Market Estimates Differ?

DC Market Insights values the Bangladesh Data Center Market at USD 266.53 million in 2026, and published estimates differ because they count different layers of the market. Broader definitions add colocation and cloud service revenue, IT services, telecom network equipment outside data centers, or the full multi-year budget of a project in the year it is announced. An earlier DC Market Insights edition of this page put 2025 at USD 905.91 million (still searched as “905.91 dolar”) on such a broader definition; the current figure of USD 217.51 million counts only the capital spend installed in the year, built from capacity in MW.

Element	In this report	Why
Servers, storage and networking inside data centers	Yes, USD 161.51 million (2025)	Installed in the building and refreshed every year
Power, cooling and construction	Yes, USD 56.00 million (2025)	Facility content per MW of new capacity
Colocation and cloud service revenue	No	Recurring rent, not capital spend
Telecom towers, fibre and submarine cables	No	Network outside the data center
Captive power plants	No	Energy generation, not data center content

Out-of-scope terms such as colocation revenue, managed services, telecom network equipment, submarine cable capacity and captive power generation are therefore not added to the total. In-scope buyers include banks and mobile financial service providers, telecom operators, ministries and the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that rent racks in colocation halls.

What Drives Bangladesh Data Center Demand in 2026?

Three drivers lift new Bangladeshi IT capacity from 8 MW in 2025 to 38 MW in 2030: financial-sector demand, power-linked hyperscale projects and a growing digital user base.

Banks and mobile money need about 100 MW against about 30 MW of supply

The financial sector alone needs about 100 MW of data center capacity, while domestic third-party capacity is expected to reach only 30 MW by 2026 (Source: The Financial Express). Bangladesh Bank’s Guidelines on Cloud Computing required banks, non-bank financial institutions and mobile financial service (MFS) providers to comply by December 2023 (Source: The Financial Express). MFS transactions reached Tk 1.58 trillion in October 2025 (Source: The Financial Express), and bKash alone serves more than 83 million customers (Source: bKash). The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment holds 30.00% of 2025 spend in DC Market Insights estimates and keeps 24.00% of the 2035 total.

Power-linked hyperscale plans: Summit’s 350 MW and a USD 2 billion AI proposal

In January 2026 Summit Group said it would enter the Bangladeshi data center market with a partner, starting work within a year (Source: Summit Power International). Its chairman said about 350 MW of Summit’s power capacity could be dedicated to data centers, with a first facility in Dhaka in about 18 months (Source: The Business Standard). In July 2026 UK-based ADIC proposed about USD 2 billion for an AI data center of 30-50 MW in phase 1 and 100-200 MW in phase 2, with a 100 MW captive power plant (Source: The Climate Watch). DC Market Insights counts these plans only as they reach construction, which is why new capacity reaches 22 MW in 2028 rather than hundreds of MW.

135.94 million internet subscribers and new bandwidth

Bangladesh had 135.94 million internet subscribers at the end of June 2026, 120.84 million of them on mobile (Source: The Financial Express, citing BTRC). The SEA-ME-WE-6 submarine cable, about 30 terabits per second (Tbps) landing at Cox’s Bazar, is expected to be operational by the end of 2026 and adds to the 7,200 gigabits per second (Gbps) of the SMW-4 and SMW-5 cables (Source: The Daily Star). DC Market Insights links this traffic to the IT and Telecom segment, USD 69.60 million in 2025.

Which Trends Are Reshaping Bangladesh’s Data Center Build-Out?

Two trends shape the build-out: the move from in-house server rooms to certified colocation, and the arrival of AI-ready hyperscale campuses at Kaliakoir.

From server rooms to Tier III and Tier IV colocation

Grameenphone opened a 4 MW Super Core Data Center in Sylhet built to Tier III standard in February 2024 (Source: The Financial Express), and a Robi Axiata subsidiary opened a certified Tier IV commercial colocation data center of 16,500 square feet at Jashore the same month (Source: The Financial Express). DC Market Insights expects Colocation and Wholesale to rise from 35% of spend in 2025 to 40% in 2035, a 29.30% CAGR.

AI-ready halls at Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park

Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park has drawn about USD 1.64 billion of investment proposals against about USD 283 million invested, and an AI data center by a US-based company is under construction there (Source: BSS). Yotta’s planned park at the same site has two hyperscale buildings with 4,800 racks and 28.8 MW of IT capacity (Source: The Daily Observer). DC Market Insights raises the AI share of new Bangladeshi capacity from 5% in 2025 to 25% in 2030 and 35% in 2035.

Satellite and edge connectivity outside Dhaka

Starlink began service in Bangladesh on 18 July 2025 with a Tk 42,000 kit and plans from Tk 4,200 a month (Source: The Financial Express), giving district offices and factories a backup link to Dhaka data centers. DC Market Insights counts the small edge rooms this creates inside the Others end-user segment, USD 21.75 million in 2025.

What Challenges Hold Back the Bangladesh Data Center Market?

Power supply and power cost are the two largest constraints, and together they explain why the base case adds 365 MW over 2026-2035, not the 630 MW announced.

A 3,000 MW grid shortfall

The Power Division forecast a shortage of about 3,000 MW against 17,000 MW of demand in April 2026, with 2,086 MW of load-shedding on 22 April (Source: Dhaka Tribune). Every Tier III site therefore carries generators for full load: the National Data Center alone has eight 2.5 MW generators and two 10.5 MVA substations (Source: BDCCL). Power Solutions take 45% of facility spend, USD 25.20 million in 2025.

A 16.7% tariff rise and an expiring tax holiday

The average retail electricity rate rose 16.7% from Tk 9.11 to Tk 10.63 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) from June 2026 billing, with high-voltage industrial rates of Tk 12.12-15.91 (Source: The Business Standard). The IT and IT-enabled services (ITES) tax holiday is scheduled to expire on 30 June 2027 (Source: The Daily Star). In the low case, with 30% less new capacity and a 30% lower AI share, the 2035 market is USD 1.56 billion instead of USD 2.49 billion.

Where Are the New Revenue Opportunities in Bangladeshi Data Centers?

The two largest new revenue pools are AI fit-outs, USD 1.46 billion of AI workload spend by 2035, and cloud and hyperscale halls, USD 621.53 million by 2035.

AI fit-outs: USD 20.23 million to USD 1.46 billion

AI Workloads grow from USD 20.23 million in 2025 to USD 1.46 billion by 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate), as AI IT at USD 35.00 million per MW is installed in the Kaliakoir and Sirajganj campuses. Suppliers of high-density power and liquid cooling gain most: Cooling Systems grow at 27.88% a year to USD 130.95 million.

Cloud and AI service providers: USD 571.81 million by 2035

Cloud and AI service providers are the fastest-growing end user at 45.94% a year, from USD 13.05 million in 2025 to USD 571.81 million by 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). Gennext Technologies and BDCCL’s Meghna Cloud and the Huawei-backed cloud services of local operators are the first buyers; storage for these platforms is sized separately in the Bangladesh Data Center Storage Market report.

What Is the Bangladesh Data Center Price per MW and per Rack?

A data center in Bangladesh costs about USD 7.00 million per MW of IT capacity to build in 2025 before servers (DC Market Insights estimate), and a standard 2-7 kW rack rents for Tk 100,000 to Tk 160,000 a month (Source: The Financial Express).

Price point	2020	2025	2030	2035
Facility cost per MW (USD million)	6.50	7.00	8.11	9.41
AI IT fit-out per AI MW (USD million)	35.00	35.00	35.00	35.00
Conventional IT spend per installed MW a year (USD million)	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50

Public price anchors:

• Operators quote about USD 80,000 per rack and up to USD 8 million per MW of IT capacity for a Tier III facility (Source: The Financial Express).
• Yotta’s planned Kaliakoir park, more than Tk 2,000 crore (about USD 150 million) for 28.8 MW, implies about USD 5.2 million per MW (Source: The Daily Observer).
• Rack rent of Tk 100,000-160,000 a month is about USD 820-1,310 at Tk 122 per US dollar (DC Market Insights conversion).

The model’s USD 7.00 million per MW sits between the two anchors and rises 3% a year after 2025, to USD 9.41 million per MW by 2035, as AI halls need denser power and cooling.

Which Rules and Standards Shape Bangladesh Data Center Investment?

Four rules shape investment: the Cyber Security Ordinance 2025, the Personal Data Protection Ordinance 2025, Bangladesh Bank’s cloud guideline and Uptime Institute Tier certification, held at Tier IV by the 604-rack National Data Center.

• Cyber Security Ordinance 2025: gazetted on 21 May 2025, repealing the Cyber Security Act 2023 (Source: Prothom Alo).
• Personal Data Protection Ordinance 2025: approved by the Council of Advisers in October 2025 with 57 sections, four data categories and an independent data auditor; it allows cross-border data exchange under bilateral and multilateral cooperation (Source: Dhaka Tribune).
• Bangladesh Bank Guidelines on Cloud Computing: binding on banks, NBFIs and MFS providers since December 2023 (Source: The Financial Express).
• Uptime Institute Tier standard: the National Data Center holds Tier IV design and facility certification, the first Tier IV facility certification in South Asia (Source: Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation (ZTE)).

DC Market Insights treats the data-protection rules as a demand driver for local hosting of government and bank data, worth USD 113.10 million of BFSI and government spend in 2025.

Which Segment Leads the Bangladesh Data Center Market, and What Is the Fastest Growing Segment?

IT Infrastructure leads the Bangladesh Data Center Market with 74.25% of 2025 spend (USD 161.51 million), and AI Workloads are the fastest-growing segment at 53.43% a year to 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate).

By Component

Component	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
IT Infrastructure	161.51	74.25%	1,940.49	28.22%
Power Solutions	25.20	11.59%	245.53	25.57%
Cooling Systems	11.20	5.15%	130.95	27.88%
General Construction	19.60	9.01%	169.15	24.05%

By Workload

AI Workloads, USD 20.23 million in 2025 (9.30%), grow to USD 1.46 billion by 2035 because the AI share of new capacity rises from 5% to 35% and each AI MW carries USD 35.00 million of IT.

Workload	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
AI Workloads	20.23	9.30%	1,462.45	53.43%
Conventional Workloads	197.28	90.70%	1,023.66	17.90%

By Data Center Type

Cloud and Hyperscale is the fastest-growing data center type at 39.83% a year, from 10% of 2025 spend to 25% by 2035.

Data center type	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Enterprise and Government	119.63	55.00%	870.14	21.95%
Colocation and Wholesale	76.13	35.00%	994.45	29.30%
Cloud and Hyperscale	21.75	10.00%	621.53	39.83%

By End User

IT and Telecom is the largest end user at 32.00% of 2025 spend, ahead of BFSI at 30.00%.

End user	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
IT and Telecom	69.60	32.00%	696.11	25.89%
BFSI	65.25	30.00%	596.67	24.77%
Government and Defence	47.85	22.00%	372.92	22.79%
Cloud and AI Service Providers	13.05	6.00%	571.81	45.94%
Others	21.75	10.00%	248.61	27.59%

DC Exclusive: The Bangladesh Capacity Pipeline Tracker and Division × Component Matrix

Seven named Bangladeshi projects disclose about 70 MW of built or first-phase capacity plus about 500 MW of power-linked plans, against the 365 MW the base case adds over 2026-2035. This is a DC Market Insights model built from 10 inputs (new IT MW, AI share, facility cost per MW, AI IT per MW, conventional IT per installed MW, refresh rate, retirement rate, installed base, division shares and hub shares) and checked against the 29 facts in the source ledger.

Project	Developer / operator	Capacity	Investment	Status
National Data Center, Kaliakoir	BDCCL	604 racks, Tier IV	Tk 1,500 crore	Live
Super Core Data Center, Sylhet	Grameenphone	4 MW, Tier III	Not disclosed	Live Feb 2024
Jashore colocation	Robi Axiata (RedDot Digital)	16,500 sq ft, Tier IV	About Tk 155 crore	Live Feb 2024
Felicity Internet Data Center (IDC), Dhaka area	Fiber@Home	5 MW; 250 racks live, 1,250 planned	More than Tk 275 crore	Live, expanding
Hyperscale park, Kaliakoir	Yotta (Hiranandani Group)	28.8 MW, 4,800 racks	More than Tk 2,000 crore	Planned
Summit data center, Dhaka	Summit Group with a partner	Up to 350 MW of linked power	Not disclosed	Announced Jan 2026
AI data center, Sirajganj EZ or Kaliakoir	ADIC	30-50 MW phase 1, 100-200 MW phase 2	About USD 2 billion	Proposed Jul 2026

The matrix below splits the 2025 market of USD 217.51 million by division and component; rows and columns sum to the totals above.

Division (USD million, 2025)	IT Infrastructure	Power Solutions	Cooling Systems	General Construction	Total
Dhaka Division	113.06	17.64	7.84	13.72	152.26
Chattogram Division	16.15	2.52	1.12	1.96	21.75
Khulna Division	14.54	2.27	1.01	1.76	19.58
Sylhet Division	9.69	1.51	0.67	1.18	13.05
Rajshahi and Other Divisions	8.08	1.26	0.56	0.98	10.88
Total	161.51	25.20	11.20	19.60	217.51

Which Bangladeshi Region Leads Data Center Spend, and Which Grows Fastest?

Dhaka Division leads with 70.00% of 2025 spend (USD 152.26 million), and Rajshahi and Other Divisions is the fastest-growing region at 39.26% a year to USD 298.33 million by 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). Bangladesh sits in Asia Pacific, which the Asia Pacific Data Center Market report sizes at a 15.01% CAGR to 2035, so the fastest growing region of the Bangladesh Data Center Market, Rajshahi and Other Divisions, grows more than twice as fast as its home region.

Division	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Dhaka Division	152.26	70.00%	1,541.39	26.05%
Chattogram Division	21.75	10.00%	348.06	31.95%
Khulna Division	19.58	9.00%	174.03	24.42%
Sylhet Division	13.05	6.00%	124.31	25.28%
Rajshahi and Other Divisions	10.88	5.00%	298.33	39.26%

Dhaka Division

Dhaka Division holds 12 of the country’s 15 listed data centers by one October 2026 count (Source: The Business Standard) and Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park in Gazipur; its share falls from 70.00% to 62.00% by 2035 as power-rich sites outside the capital open.

Chattogram Division

Chattogram Division grows at 31.95% a year because the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable lands at Cox’s Bazar (Source: The Daily Star), making cable-landing edge sites viable.

Khulna Division

Khulna Division, USD 19.58 million in 2025, is anchored by the Tier IV colocation site at Jashore Software Technology Park (Source: The Financial Express).

Sylhet Division

Sylhet Division, USD 13.05 million in 2025, rests on Grameenphone’s 4 MW Super Core Data Center (Source: The Financial Express).

Rajshahi and Other Divisions

Rajshahi and Other Divisions (Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Barishal) rise from 5.00% to 12.00% of spend because the ADIC proposal names the Sirajganj Economic Zone, in Rajshahi Division, as one of its two candidate sites (Source: The Climate Watch).

Which Bangladeshi Hubs Lead Data Center Spend?

Dhaka City leads with USD 69.60 million in 2025, and Sirajganj is the fastest-growing large hub at 54.99% a year to USD 174.03 million by 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). The 12 hubs below hold 93% of 2025 spend; the rest sits in smaller district towns.

Rank	Hub	Division	2025 (USD million)	2035 (USD million)	CAGR
1	Dhaka City	Dhaka	69.60	596.67	23.97%
2	Gazipur (Kaliakoir)	Dhaka	60.90	671.25	27.12%
3	Chattogram	Chattogram	15.23	198.89	29.30%
4	Jashore	Khulna	15.23	124.31	23.36%
5	Narayanganj	Dhaka	13.05	149.17	27.59%
6	Sylhet	Sylhet	13.05	124.31	25.28%
7	Khulna	Khulna	4.35	49.72	27.59%
8	Rajshahi	Rajshahi and Other	4.35	62.15	30.47%
9	Sirajganj	Rajshahi and Other	2.18	174.03	54.99%
10	Cox’s Bazar	Chattogram	2.18	99.44	46.56%
11	Mymensingh	Rajshahi and Other	1.09	24.86	36.74%
12	Rangpur	Rajshahi and Other	1.09	12.43	27.59%

Gazipur overtakes Dhaka City by 2035 (USD 671.25 million against USD 596.67 million) because Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park offers the land and substations that central Dhaka lacks.

How Could the 2035 Bangladesh Data Center Forecast Change? Three Scenarios

The 2035 Bangladesh Data Center Market ranges from USD 1.56 billion to USD 3.54 billion around a base case of USD 2.49 billion, depending on how much grid power data centers receive and how fast AI halls arrive.

Scenario	Assumption	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Low	New capacity and AI share 30% below base (load-shedding persists)	1.56	21.75%
Base	365 MW added 2026-2035; AI share 35% by 2035	2.49	27.59%
High	New capacity 30% and AI share 25% above base (Summit and ADIC phase 2 built)	3.54	32.17%

The Summit Group plan announced in January 2026 is the swing factor: if its first Dhaka site is live by 2028, the market tracks the high case.

Who Are the Leading Bangladesh Data Center Companies, and What Is Their Market Share?

BDCCL leads with about 12% of 2025 spend, and the four largest operators (BDCCL, Grameenphone, Robi Axiata and Fiber@Home) hold about 38% (DC Market Insights estimate, based on disclosed racks and MW).

• Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL)
• Grameenphone
• Robi Axiata (RedDot Digital)
• Fiber@Home (Felicity IDC)
• Summit Group
• Banglalink
• DataHub Asia
• Dhaka Colo
• Aamra Technologies
• Link3 Technologies
• Gennext Technologies (Meghna Cloud)
• Yotta (Hiranandani Group)
• ADIC
• Huawei
• ZTE
• Schneider Electric
• Vertiv

BDCCL’s National Data Center calls itself the world’s 7th-largest Uptime-certified Tier IV data center and serves about 55 government and private organizations (Source: BDCCL). Fiber@Home’s Felicity IDC has 250 racks live and 1,250 planned after more than Tk 275 crore of investment, while DataHub Asia invested Tk 50 crore for 300 racks and Dhaka Colo about Tk 100 crore (Source: The Daily Star). An investigative report counts 48 data centers, 22 public and 26 private, citing a ministry statement, with Felicity IDC at 5 MW (Source: Earth Journalism Network). Huawei and ZTE supply much of the IT and facility equipment: ZTE built the National Data Center.

What Changed in Bangladesh’s Data Center Market in 2025 and 2026?

Six dated events since May 2025 changed the outlook, three of them in 2026.

• In May 2025, the Cyber Security Ordinance 2025 was gazetted, repealing the Cyber Security Act 2023 (Source: Prothom Alo).
• In July 2025, Starlink launched commercial service in Bangladesh with a Tk 42,000 kit (Source: The Financial Express).
• In October 2025, the Council of Advisers approved the Personal Data Protection Ordinance 2025 (Source: Dhaka Tribune).
• In January 2026, Summit Group announced its entry into the Bangladeshi data center market (Source: Summit Power International).
• In June 2026, the average retail power tariff rose 16.7% to Tk 10.63 per kWh (Source: The Business Standard).
• In July 2026, ADIC proposed about USD 2 billion for an AI data center with a 100 MW captive power plant (Source: The Climate Watch).

More country and segment reports are listed under DC Market Insights industries; the regional picture is in the Asia Pacific Data Center Market report.

How Did DC Market Insights Build the Bangladesh Data Center Market Model? (Methodology)

The model multiplies 8 MW by USD 7.00 million per MW for 2025, adds 0.40 MW × USD 35.00 million of AI IT, and adds USD 147.51 million of installed-base IT spend. New Bangladeshi IT capacity (4 MW in 2020, 8 MW in 2025, 38 MW in 2030, 58 MW in 2035; about 65 MW installed at the end of 2025, 2% of the conventional base retired each year) × facility cost per MW gives facility spend; new AI MW (AI share 0% in 2020, 5% in 2025, 25% in 2030, 35% in 2035) × AI IT per MW gives new AI IT spend; 20% a year of the installed AI base is refreshed; and the installed conventional base × USD 2.50 million per MW a year gives conventional IT spend. Unit values for IT match the Data Center Market model; the facility cost uses Bangladeshi anchors. Division and hub splits are set for 2025 and 2035 and sum to the total.

Three bound checks:

• Ceiling 1: the model’s 365 MW of new capacity over 2026-2035 is about 58% of the roughly 630 MW linked to Summit Group, ADIC and Yotta plans (Source: The Business Standard).
• Ceiling 2: 365 MW of IT at a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.5 draws about 548 MW, 3.2% of the 17,000 MW of national demand in April 2026 (Source: Dhaka Tribune).
• Floor: disclosed facility investments by Fiber@Home, Robi, DataHub Asia and Dhaka Colo of about Tk 580 crore (about USD 53 million) sit below the model’s USD 215.70 million of facility spend over 2020-2024 (Source: The Daily Star).

Full approach: DC Market Insights research methodology.