10 Hyperscale Data Center Companies To Watch In 2021

Google (Alphabet subsidiary)

CEO: Sundar Pichai

Google was one of the largest spenders on data centers in the world in 2020, according to Synergy Research Group, spending billions each quarter on building, expanding and equipping data centers. From June 2019 to June 2020, Google and AWS opened the most new data centers throughout the globe, accounting for over half of the total centers built over the 12-month span, according to Synergy.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based search and public cloud giant is striving to keep up with demand for Google Cloud Platform services and the explosion of data being generated.

Last month, Google unveiled its plan to acquire cloud-focused data protection developer Actifio to better protect workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google Cloud is expanding the 5G ecosystem around its Anthos multi-cloud application development technology by partnering with more than 30 new independent software vendors that are readying over 200 5G-focused edge applications.