Observing recent trends in the USA and Ireland the international real estate advisor has analysed recent logistics and DC activity in Dublin, Ireland, and Houston, USA. In Dublin, occupiers connected to the DC supply chain – such as maintaining spare parts and the equipment needed to run an operational unit – accounted for 10% of annual logistics take-up in 2025, totalling 225,000 sq ft, and Savills is aware of a further 500,000 sq ft of space under offer from tenants involved in the sector. Similarly, Savills research indicates that three of the top five deals in the Houston market in Q4 2025 were driven by occupiers servicing DC or energy grid-related demand, to support expansion in the market’s huge DC presence. The four deals in Houston accounted for 11% of take-up in H2 2025, in line with the 10% of take-up in the Dublin market in 2025 accounted for by the DC sector.

In Megawatts (MW), in the European market, live DCs account for 10,990 MW, with a further 2,449 MW of DCs under construction. Comparing total take-up volume relative to the growth in energy demand from DCs currently under construction in each market, 71 Megawatts (MW) in Dublin and 250MW in Houston, Savills has found a corresponding logistics take-up impact of 7,250-10,560 sq ft per DC MW. In the case of Houston, the analysis only looks at the top deals, which could push this lower bound even higher.

Kevin Mofid, Head of EMEA Logistics Research, Savills, says: “Much of the commentary around the growth of the DC market is focussed on land sales and power yet very little has been written about the ripple effect into the logistics market. Whilst our analysis is at an early stage it is interesting to observe that in markets which have seen exceptional growth in DCs we are now seeing the suppliers to the DC community take traditional logistics warehouses. Taking an average of 8,900 sq ft of logistics space per MW and extrapolating demand for the dominant European DC markets, Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin (FLAPD), where 950 MW of space is currently under construction, we would estimate an additional 8,462,000 sq ft (786,130 sq m) of demand for logistics space. While this trend is in its early stages in Europe, we’re already seeing evidence of this in the UK, with DC power solutions and AI infrastructure firm AVK SEG leasing 140,000 sq ft of logistics space in the North West of the UK.”

Sam Quellyn Roberts, Director, Global Occupier Services / EMEA Logistics Markets, Savills, says: “Across Europe, we are starting to see 3PL occupiers and specialist contractors start to take space to service the DC community. In the first instance it is no surprise such requirements are in the more advanced DC markets of Ireland, the UK and The Netherlands. However, as DCs continue to proliferate across Europe we expect this trend to emerge elsewhere. Whilst occupiers are currently benefitting from generally higher vacancy rates across Europe development pipelines are trending downwards and as time progresses it may become more challenging to procure these mission critical warehouse facilities.”