Querétaro holds 72% of Mexico's operating data center capacity

Querétaro holds roughly 72% of Mexico's data center operating capacity, according to a 2026 BloombergNEF report cited by Commercial Observer. Data Center Map, a directory of publicly listed facilities, counts 66 data centers across Mexico, 24 of them in Querétaro.

CloudHQ's $6 billion, six-building QRO footprint is positioned to become Mexico's biggest data center campus, per Commercial Observer. Amazon AWS and ODATA also run facilities in the state, and Microsoft alone has three locations in Querétaro.

The first hyperscale data center in the United States appeared around 2006, Google in Oregon, while Mexico did not get its first data center until 2019, the year CBRE Mexico senior vice president Rodrigo Folgueras identifies as the start of the country's surge, Commercial Observer reports. The gap leaves allocators with 13 years less local operating history to benchmark lease-up, absorption and tenant demand against U.S. comparables.

John McWilliams, who leads U.S. data center insights at Cushman & Wakefield, told the outlet that investment into the state is heavy and that the projects going up are turning Querétaro into a cloud region for Mexico. He added that the state has a chance to rank not just among Mexico's major players but within the hemisphere.

Commercial Observer puts the appeal largely in process terms: Mexican development adopts the same streamlined strategy used in the United States while generally shying away from the high labor costs and controversies that define the domestic data center debate. The backdrop is demand — data centers are gaining momentum largely on artificial-intelligence requirements, and the outlet describes Mexico as a relatively new and still-to-be-realized opportunity.