{"id":40268,"date":"2026-03-28T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/40268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:50:11","slug":"demand-and-risks-for-global-data-centre-insurance-growing-swiss-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/40268\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand and risks for global data centre insurance growing: Swiss Re"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast growth in <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/data-centre-construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data centre construction<\/a> is pushing up insurance demand and risks for the sector, a report published by Swiss Re on Friday said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/global-insurance-premiums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global insurance premiums<\/a> linked to data centres are expected to rise to $24.2 \u200cbillion by \u20602030 \u2060from an estimated $10.6 billion currently, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that building costs for one site can exceed $20 billion, financing institutions are pressing insurers for limits that cover the full cost of construction, Swiss Re said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not just buildings, they are highly integrated systems where you have power, cooling, hardware, and software that \u2060all depend \u200con each other,&#8221; Swiss Re&#8217;s Head of Engineering and Nuclear Jimmy Keime told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>However, the likelihood \u2060of a full loss is very low, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The re-insurance and insurance industry can only support a fraction of the full costs at competitive rates for traditional risk policies, Swiss Re said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This accumulation of value heightens the impact of physical risks, including natural catastrophes,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Could make up big part of natural catastrophe <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/insured-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">insured losses<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Swiss Re expects over a quarter of US data centre capacity to be in areas with substantial exposure to hail \u2060fall and over 40% of capacity in areas significantly exposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tornado-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tornado risks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside natural catastrophes, there are also risks like water damage from cooling failures and breaks in power supply.<\/p>\n<p>A single risk location, or data centre, could today cause close to $10 billion in natural catastrophe losses, Keime said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, total global insured losses from natural catastrophes were $107 billion, he noted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast growth in data centre construction is pushing up insurance demand and risks for the sector, a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23521,23518,23519,4332,23520,23522,41,21925,17,23523,23524],"class_list":{"0":"post-40268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-data-centre-construction","9":"tag-data-centre-insurance","10":"tag-global-insurance-premiums","11":"tag-insured-losses","12":"tag-natural-catastrophe-risks","13":"tag-physical-risks-in-data-centres","14":"tag-swiss","15":"tag-swiss-re-report","16":"tag-switzerland","17":"tag-tornado-risks","18":"tag-water-damage-in-data-centres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116305476060900237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40268","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=40268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}