Arcadis finds UAE one of the top 10 markets to build data centres DUBAI, March 2, 2021 Arcadis, the leading global design and consultancy organisation for natural and built assets, has announced the release of its Data Centre Location Index 2021, which lists the most favourable markets for localisation.
Following the United States, Singapore and Japan, Sweden and Norway took the fourth and fifth spots, respectively, whereas Denmark and the UAE were recognised in sixth and seventh spots, respectively.
The Arcadis Data Centre Location Index 2021 includes 50 markets across six continents ranking optimal places to build data centres in the world. The index is based on each market’s performance across eight key criteria: GDP per capita, dealing with construction permits, price of electricity, energy security, cybersecurity, domestic market size, the number of mobile broadband subscriptions and mean download speed. Using the above-mentioned criteria, Arcadis data specialists divided these into supply and demand criteria and then both were combined with equal weighting (50/50). The individual criteria weightings were determined based on their assessment of the relative importance of each factor. Weightings are set so that all factors have