— John Dinsdale , chief analyst , Synergy Research Group around the world big enough to be classified as hyperscale , with the overwhelming majority being owned by AWS , Facebook , Google and other Tier One hyperscale players ( more about them in a moment ). However , the majority of these facil - ities were built , wholly owned and operated by a single Tier One firm , almost exclusively in support of their own operations . Since then , the massive rise in public cloud adoption , which companies like AWS support through their own hyperscale infrastr ucture , has propelled hyperscale investment to new heights .

In 2018 , market research by North American Data Centres identified 11 deals in excess of 10MW - including a record-breaking 72MW lease of data centre space in Ashburn , Virginia by Facebook .

At the end of 2019 , there were more than 500 hyperscale data centres in operation around the world , a number which swelled again in the first half of 2020 to more than 540 .

Of the new hyperscale data centres opened in the last 12 months , AWS and Google together accounted for more than half the total , with Micro-

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