Micro Data Center Market Report 2025

This Micro Data Center market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The micro data center market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $7.48 billion in 2024 to $9.75 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.3%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to rise in adoption of micro data centers, increased demand for micro-modular solutions, increased number of self-contained it facilities, increased interest of the colocation companies to adopt modular solutions, sustainability benefits of micro data centers.

The micro data center market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $27.93 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.1%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing demand for real-time data, growing adoption of IoT and edge computing, increasing demand for scalability and flexibility, growing concern for data security and privacy, global rise in digitalization. Major trends in the forecast period include demand for high-performance and reliable data centers, adoption of edge computing technologies for compute-intensive applications such as AI and IoT, demand for self-contained, scalable, customizable, and cost-effective data center solutions, product innovation, adoption of 5G network services.

The increasing adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to drive the growth of the micro data center market in the foreseeable future. IoT refers to the interconnected network of physical devices equipped with sensors, software, and other technologies that facilitate data exchange with other devices and systems via the Internet. The surge in IoT adoption is attributed to the heightened demand for automation, improved connectivity, and real-time monitoring capabilities. Micro data centers play a vital role in enhancing IoT connectivity by offering localized, efficient, and secure solutions for data processing and storage. They effectively address key challenges such as latency, bandwidth limitations, security concerns, and scalability, thereby enabling more robust and reliable IoT deployments across diverse industries. For example, as reported by the GSM Association in January 2022, global IoT connections are projected to increase from 16.7 billion in 2023 to 25 billion by 2025, indicating a significant growth trajectory. Hence, the expanding adoption of IoT drives the growth of the micro data center market.

Leading companies in the microdata center market are increasingly focusing on developing cutting-edge technologies, such as liquid cooling, to strengthen their competitive edge. Liquid cooling is a technique that utilizes liquid coolants to efficiently dissipate heat from densely packed electronic components, particularly in data centers and high-performance computing environments. For example, in April 2023, STULZ GMBH, a German technology company, introduced the STULZ Micro DC - an advanced microdata center solution designed to address the rising demand for efficient and flexible IT infrastructure. This innovative product integrates multiple essential components into a single, modular rack system, incorporating power protection, cooling, monitoring, management, fire protection, and security features. The STULZ Micro DC is designed to function in both single-rack and multi-rack setups, enabling users to easily scale their IT resources as required.

In February 2022, Redivider, a US-based company specializing in online payment processing, acquired EnergyX for an undisclosed sum. Through this acquisition, Redivider Blockchain intends to provide effective, environmentally friendly, and high-performance data center solutions to address the increasing needs of the blockchain and high-performance computing sectors. EnergyX, a US-based firm renowned for its expertise in advanced cooling technologies and micro data center solutions, is the subject of this acquisition.

Major companies operating in the micro data center market are Huawei Technologies, IBM Corporation, Schneider Electric SA, Fujitsu Ltd., ABB Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Eaton Corporation, Vertiv Group Corp., Dell Inc., Iron Mountain inc., Rittal GmbH, Tata Communications, Stulz GmbH, Switch, EdgeConneX, Canovate Group Companies, PI Data Centers Pvt. Ltd., ScaleMatrix Inc., Cannon Technologies Ltd., Hanley Energy LLC, Attom Technology, Advanced Facilities Inc., Rackbank Datacenters pvt. Ltd., ALTRON, Zella DC.

North America was the largest region in the micro data center market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the micro data center market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the micro data center market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

A micro data center (MDC) is a condensed, self-contained data facility consolidating computing, storage, and networking functions within a unified unit. This facility provides a flexible and effective computing solution, allowing businesses to bring data processing capabilities nearer to where data originates and is utilized.

Micro data centers primarily consist of two component types, solutions and services. Solutions encompass a range of compact and scalable alternatives crafted to meet the evolving demands of data processing and storage more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional large data centers. These solutions cater to organizations of various sizes, including small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as large enterprises. They serve diverse applications such as instant DC and retrofit, high-density networks, remote office and mobile computing, and are utilized across various industry verticals including energy, colocation, banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), government, industrial, healthcare, information technology, telecom, among others.

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The micro data center market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing data storage services, cloud integration services, edge computing services, computing services, remote management services, and environmental control services. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The micro data center market also includes sales of hard disk drives, storage arrays, switches, solid state drives, routers, firewalls, and surveillance cameras. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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