What’s established: S&P Global announced on July 28, 2026 that it agreed to buy datacenterHawk, a data-center market intelligence vendor, per Integrity Research’s August 12, 2026 report. What’s claimed, and only claimed, is the stated rationale — that the deal “strengthens” S&P Global’s position across data-center, power, and infrastructure markets. That’s the acquirer’s framing, not an independently verifiable outcome, and the reporting gives no purchase price, no revenue multiple, and no stated headcount or customer-retention terms for datacenterHawk.
The absence of deal terms matters more than usual here because the underlying market is being repriced in real time. Data center rack spending alone is forecast to grow from $5.93 billion in 2025 to $13.91 billion by 2035, an 8.9% CAGR, according to Market Research Future, while global cloud infrastructure spending is on pace to top $500 billion in 2026 for the first time, per Synergy Research Group data cited by Statista.
An undisclosed price on a data-center intelligence asset, bought at the exact moment hyperscaler capex is compounding, is itself information — it just isn’t public yet.
Integrity Research’s own related-coverage list flags a second, apparently separate S&P Global move into power-market data, an acquisition of Enertel AI Corporation described as enhancing S&P Global’s power-market offering. Taken together — if accurate — that would suggest S&P Global is assembling a power-and-infrastructure data vertical through serial bolt-ons rather than a single flagship deal, a pattern worth tracking independently rather than accepting from press-release framing alone.
What would validate the strategic claim: disclosure of the purchase price or multiple in S&P Global’s next earnings call, confirmation of whether datacenterHawk’s asset-level data gets folded into Capital IQ or a standalone Platts-style power/infrastructure product, and evidence that existing datacenterHawk subscribers — largely real estate and colocation analysts — stay on rather than churn once pricing or access terms change under new ownership. Watch S&P Global’s Q3 2026 filings for the first of those signals.
On July 28th, 2026 S&P Global, a New York information provider, announced that it has agreed to acquire datacenterHawk, a provider of data-center market intelligence and asset-level data, in a move designed to strengthen S&P Global's capabilities across the rapidly expanding data-center, power and infrastructure markets.
