The GDCI tracks aggregate data center market health across power availability, construction activity, M&A deal flow, and AI infrastructure investment
DC Hub has launched the Global Data Center Composite Index (GDCI), the first standardized benchmark designed to track overall data center market conditions across the key dimensions that drive industry activity: power availability, construction pipeline, M&A deal flow, and AI infrastructure investment.
The GDCI aggregates signals from DC Hub's real-time data feeds — including substation capacity queues, construction permit activity, transaction closings, hyperscale land acquisition, and PPA signings — into a single composite score updated weekly. Market participants can use the index to understand whether overall conditions are tightening or loosening, and where the market is in the current cycle.
The index is segmented by geography (North America, EMEA, APAC), by market tier (Tier 1 primary markets vs. secondary markets), and by asset class (hyperscale vs. colocation vs. edge). This allows investors, developers, and operators to track conditions in specific segments rather than relying on broad narratives about the market.
Quote from Jonathan Martone, Founder & CEO of DC Hub:
"The data center industry has grown to rival commercial real estate in investment scale, but it has lacked the kind of standardized benchmarks that other asset classes use to track market conditions. The GDCI is our contribution to bringing that rigor to the sector."
The GDCI is available to DC Hub Pro and Enterprise subscribers at dchub.cloud/gdci, with historical data going back to 2023.