Synergy Research Group, a market research firm tracking cloud and data center markets, publishes a quarterly count of hyperscale data centers, and this March 2025 dispatch covers where that count stood at the end of 2024.

Hyperscale providers operated 1,136 large data centers at the end of 2024, double the count from five years earlier, while total capacity has taken under four years to double on its own. A bar chart tracks the count climbing from roughly 430 in Q4 2017 to 1,136 in Q4 2024, and Synergy credits the growth more to the increasing average size of new facilities than to raw numbers, naming generative AI workloads as a driver of that larger scale.

A companion pie chart splits Q4 2024 capacity by region: the United States holds 54%, China 16%, Europe 15%, the rest of Asia-Pacific 10%, and the rest of the world 5%. Synergy forecasts 130 to 140 new hyperscale facilities a year going forward, with capacity growth still driven more by scale than by count.

Every figure comes from Synergy's own proprietary dataset, tracked commercially rather than published for independent audit, so treat it as one firm's read on the market rather than an audited count. The dispatch sticks to aggregate counts and capacity share too: it says nothing about which facilities are oldest and names no individual site, so look elsewhere for data center history.