The U.S. leads and will continue to lead the world in total hyperscale data centers and worldwide capacity through at least 2026, according to Synergy Research Group.

“The United States currently accounts for almost 40% of operational hyperscale data centers and half of all worldwide capacity,” John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research Group, wrote in a new report. 

Large data centers owned by hyperscalers are expected to grow rapidly across the globe. “With a current known pipeline of 314 future new hyperscale data centers, the installed base of operational data centers will pass the 1,000 mark in three years’ time and continue growing rapidly thereafter,” Dinsdale wrote.

The U.S. also has the distinction of being the country with the most data centers slated to come online, followed by China, Ireland, India, Spain, Israel, Canada, Italy, Australia, and the United Kingdom, according to the market research firm. 

Global hyperscale data centers surpassed 500 in 2018, and will exceed 1,000 in 2024. The total installed base of operational data centers continues growing at double-digit rates, and the capacity of those facilities will grow at an even faster rate as the footprint of existing data centers are expanded, according to Synergy Research Group.

“The future looks bright for hyperscale operators, with double-digit annual growth in total revenues supported in large part by cloud revenues that will be growing in the 20% to 30% per-year range,” Dinsdale wrote. “This in turn will drive strong growth in capex generally and in data center spending specifically.”

Unsurprisingly, the world’s largest cloud providers also operate the largest data center footprints globally. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM each have more than 60 data center locations globally, including at least three in North America, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Global data center capacity is led by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and that quartet of companies are also poised to activate the largest number of new data centers through 2026, according to Synergy Research Group.

Meanwhile, Chinese hyperscalers are growing capacity at the fastest rate with ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent leading those gains in China, Dinsdale concluded.

Synergy Research Group tracks the data center footprints and expansion plans of 19 of the world’s largest cloud and internet service companies, including the largest providers of infrastructure, platforms, software, search, social media, e-commerce, and gaming.