The France data center hardware market is estimated at USD 2,367.3 million in 2024 and is forecasted to reach USD 3,026.6 million in 2028, growing at a CAGR of 9.0% over the forecast period.
France is designated the third-largest data center market in Europe, holding nearly 12% of data center facilities in Western Europe with an estimated capacity of 1050 MW as of 2024. Paris ranks as the largest data centre market in France, which houses nearly 34% of the total facilities of the country, with an operational IT load approximating 500MW, followed by cities like Lille, Marseille, Lyon, and others. Paris additionally serves as a major hub for European networks, with data traffic exchanged through the key internet exchange points such as France-IX, POUIX and SFINX, thus acting as a demand propeller for networking hardware solutions associated with data centers in the country.
The substantial computational demands of AI is fostering data center expansion in the country which is anticipated to be triggered by the transition towards cloud-computing leading to enhancement in demand for high-performance servers, scalable storage solutions and robust networking infrastructure and eventually accelerating investments in next-generation data center hardware, supporting growing digital infrastructure needs of the country.
Additionally, the influx of investments by global technology companies, focused on expanding data center infrastructure to handle advancing operational workloads generated by AI applications, cloud services, and digital transformation initiatives undertaken by enterprises, will eventually drive the demand for optimized data processing and scalable storage hardware.
Prime investors include Microsoft, Equinix, Google Cloud, AWS, and many others, which are targeting strategic expansion of the data center domain in France and are poised to fuel the boost in demand for hardware solutions associated with data centers in the country.
Moreover, the implementation of strategic initiatives led by French government targeted at attracting investment in the country through policies such as AI Action Summit 2025, Simplification Bill (PLS), France 2030 strategy, strategic implementation of 40% renewable energy utilization by 2030, CSPE tax exemption policies and others, is eventually poised to develop market growth avenues for data center development in France and will eventually fuel the demand for associated hardware solutions in the country.
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