{"id":40060,"date":"2026-03-27T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/40060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:27:08","slug":"demand-and-risks-for-global-data-centre-insurance-growing-swiss-re-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/40060\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand and risks for global data centre insurance growing, Swiss Re says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Fast growth in data centre construction is pushing up insurance \u200cdemand and risks for the sector, \u200ca report published by Swiss Re on Friday said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Global \u200binsurance premiums linked to data centres are expected to rise to $24.2 billion by 2030 from an estimated $10.6 billion currently, the report \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Noting that building \u2060costs for one site can exceed $20 billion, financing institutions are pressing insurers \u2060for limits that cover the full cost of construction, Swiss Re said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">However, the re-insurance \u200band insurance \u200bindustry can only \u200bsupport a fraction \u200cof this limit at competitive rates for traditional risk policies, Swiss Re added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;This accumulation of value heightens the impact of physical risks, including natural catastrophes,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Alongside natural \u200ccatastrophes, there are also \u200brisks like water damage \u200bfrom cooling failures \u200band breaks in power supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Swiss \u200cRe expects over a \u200bquarter of U.S. \u200bdata centre capacity to be in areas with substantial exposure to hail fall \u200band over \u200c40% of capacity in areas significantly \u200bexposed to tornado risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Marleen \u200bKaesebierEditing by Dave Graham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Fast growth in data centre construction is pushing up insurance \u200cdemand and risks for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1258,244,20820,23410,41,9465,17],"class_list":["post-40060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-data-centre","tag-insurance","tag-natural-catastrophes","tag-physical-risks","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-re","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116303498006451840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}