Data center brokers
Data center brokers source colocation, negotiate leases and sell powered land, facilities and platforms. Compare 33 brokers and advisors, from CBRE ($6.0B+ in annual transactions, company-stated) and JLL (3.0+ GW of colocation deals) to colocation specialists and M&A banks. Filter by mandate and open the source behind every figure.
| 515 Engine | Colocation sourcing | — | Retail and wholesale colocation; pricing benchmarks; contract review; billing validation; renewal management | — | 2026-11-11 |
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| Allegro Real Estate Brokers & Advisors | Real estate brokerage | — | Data center site selection; utility coordination; due diligence; entitlements | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Avison Young | Real estate brokerage | — | Site selection; provider selection and representation; transaction services; valuation; capital markets; debt and equity; project management; network and connectivity | Represented the seller of a 343-acre parcel bought by Tract for the 1GW Morris Technology Park campus in Illinois (January 2026), per Avison Young | 2026-11-11 |
| Bluewave | Colocation sourcing | — | Colocation sourcing; pricing and feature comparison; contract negotiation; billing and SLA monitoring | — | 2026-11-11 |
| BNP Paribas Real Estate | Real estate brokerage | United Kingdom; EMEA | Land purchase; development appraisals; investment analysis and purchases; leasing advice; lease restructuring | Advised Equinix on buying an 85-acre freehold site in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, for its planned £3.9B campus (October 2025), per BNP Paribas Real Estate | 2026-11-11 |
| Bridgepointe Technologies | Colocation sourcing | Global | Colocation sourcing; private cloud; bare metal; disaster recovery; strategy and migration consulting | Bridgepointe states 1,200+ completed client projects across its data center and cloud practice | 2026-11-11 |
| CBRE | Real estate brokerage | Global | Occupier leasing; investor leasing; acquisitions and dispositions; recapitalization; consulting | CBRE states $6.0B+ in annual global data center transaction value and 10M sq ft of colocation space leased each year | 2026-11-11 |
| Colliers | Real estate brokerage | Americas | Tenant representation; site selection; build-to-suit advisory; valuation; acquisition and disposition | Americas practice lead Raul Saavedra’s Colliers biography states 600+ MW of transactions completed | 2026-11-11 |
| Colo-X | Colocation sourcing | — | Colocation brokerage; shortlisting; formal quotations; network and hosting sourcing; consultancy | Colo-X lists sourcing 1MW in London for a US service provider and dual 250kW London sites for a financial services firm | 2026-11-11 |
| COLOTRAQ | Colocation sourcing | Global | Colocation sourcing; requirements definition; provider comparison; contract negotiation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Cresa | Real estate brokerage | North America; global through Knight Frank partnership | Development site sales; asset sales; owner leasing; occupier representation; financing; project management | Cresa’s data center team states 3,000+ acres of powered land and development sites transacted | 2026-11-11 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | Real estate brokerage | Global | Site selection; power procurement; lease negotiation; facility management; disposition | Washington, D.C. data center advisory team states $9B+ of data center transactions advised worldwide over the last decade | 2026-11-11 |
| Data Center Group | Real estate brokerage | United States | Land brokerage; site selection; power and infrastructure screening; entitlement; development | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Datacenter Broker | Colocation sourcing | Netherlands (primary); Belgium; Germany | Colocation matching; tenant acquisition; facility screening; paid specification-led sourcing | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Datacenters.com | Colocation sourcing | Global | Provider comparison; colocation quote collection; facility search | — | 2026-11-11 |
| DC Advisory | Capital advisory | Europe; North America | Digital infrastructure M&A and partnership advisory covering datacentres, fibre and towers | Exclusive advisor to PGGM on its partnership with European data centre platform Penta Infra, per DC Advisory | 2026-11-11 |
| Eastdil Secured | Capital advisory | United States; international | Sales; leasing; joint ventures; financing | Top seller-side broker of 2025 data center property sales: $1.58B of advisory work, 49.8% share (Real Estate Alert ranking on Green Street data, published by Eastdil) | 2026-11-11 |
| Five 9s Digital | Real estate brokerage | United States (national coverage) | Acquisitions; dispositions; leasing; power advisory and procurement; valuation; lease renewals; site selection; powered land | Five 9s lists the $130M sale of CME Group’s Chicago data center to CyrusOne with a 10 MW leaseback | 2026-11-11 |
| Houlihan Lokey | Capital advisory | International | M&A; capital solutions; financial restructuring; valuation | Exclusive sell-side advisor to Connect Des Moines on its sale to Cologix, closed June 1, 2024, per Houlihan Lokey | 2026-11-11 |
| Inflect | Colocation sourcing | — | Colocation, bare metal, internet access, private networking and GPU quotes; provider comparison; expert advice | — | 2026-11-11 |
| JLL | Real estate brokerage | Global | Colocation site selection; land acquisition; divestment; financing; energy procurement | JLL states 3.0+ GW of colocation transactions completed | 2026-11-11 |
| Knight Frank | Real estate brokerage | Global | Colocation acquisition; lease renewals; site selection; freehold acquisitions; sale-leasebacks; valuation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Lazard | Capital advisory | — | Financial advisory and M&A for data center, tower and fiber owners | Exclusive financial advisor to T5 Operations on its sale to Salute Mission Critical (2026), per King & Spalding | 2026-11-11 |
| Macronet Services | Colocation sourcing | Global | Colocation supplier evaluation; infrastructure solution design; disaster recovery; cloud connectivity planning | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Moelis & Company | Capital advisory | — | M&A; powered land sales; joint ventures; equity and debt capital raises | Moelis lists a $6B programmatic joint venture with Cloud Capital to invest in hyperscale data centers (2026) and an $835M Brookfield equity and Deutsche Bank debt raise (2025) | 2026-11-11 |
| Newmark | Real estate brokerage | Global | Site selection; power and fiber due diligence; tenant representation; acquisitions; sale-leasebacks; valuation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| North American Data Centers | Real estate brokerage | United States; Canada | Acquisitions; leasing; dispositions; lease renewals | NADC states founder Jim Kerrigan has sold 4M+ sq ft of data centers since 2016, mostly in Northern Virginia: 20 properties worth $1.2B+ | 2026-11-11 |
| PLANNET | Colocation sourcing | United States; international markets | Power and space assessment; provider selection; rate benchmarking; RFP management; contract negotiation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Savills | Real estate brokerage | EMEA | Land acquisition; lease advisory; colocation sourcing; investment acquisition and disposal; M&A; debt structuring | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Site Selection Group | Site selection advisory | — | Market research; infrastructure evaluation; power cost assessment; incentive negotiation; real estate and colocation SLA negotiation | — | 2026-11-11 |
| StrataCore | Colocation sourcing | Global | Colocation sourcing; provider evaluation; rates and terms advisory | — | 2026-11-11 |
| UPSTACK | Colocation sourcing | — | RFP development; quote collection; vendor selection support; implementation support | — | 2026-11-11 |
| Volterra Advisors | Site selection advisory | United States | Power-first site screening; utility diligence; documented shortlists; negotiation support | — | 2026-11-11 |
How this table is built
Full methodologyServices and markets come from the firm’s own data center pages and brochures. Source markers open the page behind each field. A dash means the cited material leaves the field unstated; ask for it in your brief.
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Questions buyers ask
Which type of broker fits my requirement?
For cabinets, cages or suites, start with colocation sourcing and leasing. For a campus or powered land, screen for site selection and utility diligence. For an asset sale, financing or platform acquisition, use investment and capital advisory. The mandate hubs separate these tasks and show the firms with sourced services.
How do I compare brokers’ deal volumes?
Match the unit to your mandate. Annual dollar volume, colocation GW, land acreage and a lead broker’s career MW measure different work, so the table keeps every figure in the firm’s own words and units. Ask each shortlisted firm for completed deals like yours in your target market.
Who pays the broker or advisor?
Ask for the payer, fee basis, referral compensation and represented party in writing. The fee disclosure column records public terms where available. A provider-paid colocation placement and a client-paid site search can sit within the same firm.
What should I put in a data center sourcing brief?
State critical IT load, initial and expansion capacity, target markets, delivery date, rack density, cooling needs, connectivity and lease term. Ask the advisor to distinguish energized power from future utility capacity and to identify the evidence for each shortlisted site.
Which banks advise on data center M&A?
Eastdil Secured, Moelis, Lazard, Houlihan Lokey and DC Advisory publish data center deal work. Eastdil led 2025 data center property sales with $1.58B of advisory work, per Real Estate Alert. The Sell, acquire or finance hub lines them up against the property brokers.