Analyst firm IDC predicts installed data center IT power capacity in the APAC region to reach 94.4GW by 2028.

The company's report does not include Japan, and forecasts a data center IT power capacity five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.2 percent to reach that figure.

In the report, IDC said that data center IT power capacity spending increased by 9.6 percent year-over-year (YoY), but added that it expects the market growth rate to double to 18.3 percent in 2024.

It put the increase primarily down to the emergence of numerous hyperscale data centers and infrastructure modernization efforts across the region, as well as the AI boom.

"Digital transformation and generative AI are reshaping data centers, driving unprecedented growth and technological advancements in the Asia/Pacific region," Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst, data center research, IDC Asia/Pacific, said.

"Data localization laws are causing enterprises to re-evaluate where they place and how they process their workloads to ensure their IT infrastructure complies with the region's rapidly developing and non-uniform regulations."

Power scarcity and supply chain disruptions pose a risk to data center growth, as it does around the world.