Report Title: Shanghai and Surrounding Areas Data Center Market Research Report (2025–2026)
Publication Date: Jun 2026
Format: PDF
Language: English
Price: USD 7,800
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of China’s IDC Industry
Macro environment; national market scale & business structure; domestic industry characteristics & trends
Chapter 2. IDC Industry Environment of Shanghai and Surroundings
Regional industrial policies; Yangtze River Delta digital economy; local land & power supporting resources
Chapter 3. Current Status of Regional Traditional IDC Market
Regional market scale; market structure; local cabinet supply-demand balance
Chapter 4. IDC Market Demand Analysis
Overall regional demand; internet enterprise demand; cloud vendor demand; traditional industry demand
Chapter 5. Cabinet Resource Supply Analysis
Regional rack distribution; rental price trend; cabinet utilization rate; new rack capacity forecast (2026–2028)
Chapter 6. Competitive Landscape of Local IDC Market
Market share pattern; resource layout of all vendors; future industry competition trends
Chapter 7. Market Forecast & Development Outlook
Long-term industrial evolution; 2026–2028 market scale forecast; regional investment opportunities
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The Shanghai-surrounding IDC market hit RMB 25.03 billion in 2025 with a 9.2% year-on-year growth rate. AI expansion and domestic financial IT replacement jointly fuel steady demand growth across the Yangtze River Delta.Internet giants and financial institutions keep expanding high-density compute facilities in both Shanghai and its satellite cities.
Taicang, Kunshan and Nantong act as key spillover carriers for Shanghai’s AI compute parks.Peripheral cities enjoy looser land and power limits, attracting large-scale self-built clusters from Alibaba and ByteDance.
Internet and cloud providers contribute the largest share of regional IDC demand, with growing preference for GPU high-density racks for large model training.Financial, manufacturing and government sectors become stable supplementary demand sources for local data center operators.
Telecom carriers and third-party vendors both expand capacity within Shanghai’s administrative boundary. Peripheral markets are overwhelmingly led by third-party IDC firms, occupying 91.9% of total peripheral rack capacity.Large-scale projects from Vast Data, Century Internet and Runze Science continuously lift regional supply capacity.
The regional IDC market scale is projected to reach RMB 33.87 billion by 2028, driven by multi-modal AI and AI Agent commercialization.Surrounding satellite cities will maintain a 20% compound annual growth rate, becoming the core growth engine of the Yangtze River Delta computing cluster.
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