Data centre insurance market seen topping $24bn by 2030 amid rising risks

I watched an insurance broker walk into a CIO's office last week with a 40% premium increase for data centre coverage.

The CIO expected it. What surprised him was the three-page questionnaire about AI training workloads, power density per rack, and incident response protocols for model poisoning attacks.

Yesterday's news puts numbers to what I'm seeing across regulated infrastructure: the data centre insurance market is tracking toward $24 billion by 2030. That's not organic growth. That's repricing risk.

Insurers are finally treating hyperscale facilities like what they are — critical infrastructure with cascading failure modes. A flooded data centre doesn't just cost you hardware anymore. It costs you uptime SLAs, regulatory penalties, customer trust, and potentially your licence to operate in certain jurisdictions.

For enterprises running hybrid cloud in regulated sectors, this shift has immediate implications. Your insurance carrier now wants to see your disaster recovery architecture, your data residency controls, and your AI governance framework. They're underwriting your technical decisions.

That questionnaire the CIO received? It's the new due diligence. And if you can't answer those questions about your own estate, your premiums will reflect that uncertainty.

The market is telling us something: digital infrastructure risk is no longer an IT problem. It's an enterprise liability that shows up in your P&L.

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