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2026 Global Data Center Outlook
Navigating AI demand, power constraints and global opportunities in 2026
Data centres
Shaping tomorrow's digital infrastructure
JLL’s experts are experienced in every phase of the data centre lifecycle to help you evaluate, scale, optimise, and maintain efficiencies in your data centre strategy.
Our team is trained from colocation site selection and land acquisition to divestment, facility management, and energy procurement.
Solutions to power you forward
Data centers core functionality and features
We help our clients find locations, arrange financing, manage construction and run facilities more efficiently in this competitive market.
We help you choose a location that supports your business needs in a tight market.
- Our experts connect you to utility power and negotiate discounted rates.
- Energy Services provides behind-the-meter solutions for delayed grid access, backup power or partial power connections.
Build smart and source the equipment that drives performance.
- Our Project Development Services, powered by SKAE, brings industry expertise to help drive your project on-time and on budget.
- Sourcing Solutions connect you with vendors to secure equipment, commodities and anything else needed to keep your data center operating at its peak performance.
- We use our relationships and economies of scale to secure lower costs.
Ensure smooth startup and operational readiness.
- Commissioning is a can make or break a facility's long-term reliability and efficiency.
- SKAE uses comprehensive testing procedures developed from years of data center experience to reduce the risk of costly downtime and set the stage for long-term reliability.
Establish best practice procedures.
- Our facility management teams offer extensive experience in data centers of all sizes.
- Our Human Resources team has expertise in hiring for specialized roles, even in remote areas, ensuring you get the best people for your site.
- Work with us to develop MOPs and SOPs based on industry best practices, ensuring everyone in your data center is operating from the same playbook.
- Day-to-day operations are what make or break reliability. Make sure you are working with the right teams and the right playbook.
Scale your footprint as demand grows.
- Our experts have experience identifying facilities with availability and negotiating colocation and cloud contracts
- Grow your capacity strategically, whether through optimization or geographic expansion.
Reduce energy consumption, improve power and water usage effectiveness (PUE & WUE), and enhance equipment performance.
- We identify opportunities to recapture and reuse waste heat, delivering measurable cost savings while positioning your facility for long-term sustainability goals and certifications.
Decommission, divest or modernize aging infrastructure. Our experts can identify ways to modernize and retrofit your legacy data centers to fit today's and tomorrow's needs.
- Ready to move on? Our experts can help you decommission a data center and get a profitable sale to divest it from your portfolio.
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Senior Director and Sector Head- Infrastructure & Airports
Azizbeg Mirza
Senior Director, PDS Projects
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