According to the latest JLL Data Center Outlook, the shift to cloud computing is driving profound changes throughout the data center real estate industry.

By Mark Bauer, Managing Director and co-lead of Data Center Solutions, JLL Cloud technology adoption, rising data consumption and new data sovereignty laws are forcing companies to re-think how and where their servers filled with data will be located. Multi-tenant data centers (MTDC) are expanding across the continent, driven by the growing appetite for content, according to JLL’s latest Data Center Outlook (2016). At the same time, the first wave of MTDCs are seeing their tenants’ 10-year leas es coming up for renewal. As a result, many tenants are renegotiating terms to include greater flexibility to adjust to changing technologies…