LEDVANCE is one of the world's leading general lighting companies, serving professional customers and end users. It owns four independent major brands - LEDVANCE, OSRAM, SYLVANIA, and BELLALUX, with a product portfolio covering various application scenarios. LEDVANCE is also a global provider of innovative lighting products, smart and connected lighting solutions, inheriting the excellent lighting tradition of Germany's OSRAM. Based on the ever-changing market demands, it integrates general lighting with modern forward-looking technology to meet the needs of various customers with a sustainable development concept.

The application scenarios of LED general lighting are quite extensive. According to the latest report by TrendForce, "2025 Global LED Lighting Market Trends - Database and Player Strategies - 2H25," although the LED general lighting market continues to decline, some segmented applications show growth potential. Based on this, TrendForce is currently planning to study various professional segmented application markets, combining the current investment boom in AI-driven digital infrastructure construction. This issue focuses on the data center lighting market, an easily overlooked yet crucial segment.

In recent years, LEDVANCE has also accelerated its layout in the data center lighting application market. Therefore, during this research, TrendForce visited LEDVANCE's operation management center and invited General Manager Dylan Huang and Senior R&D Director and Head of New Product Introduction in Europe, Jack Chen, to share their in-depth interpretation and analysis of the data center lighting market. They also introduced how their cutting-edge lighting technology integrates with data center buildings to help customers reduce PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) to achieve green and low-carbon development and future market development plans.

AI-Driven Growth Brings New Opportunities to the Data Center Lighting Market
According to TrendForce, with the increasing demand for digital services and the rise of generative AI since 2023, the demand for computing power has significantly increased, driving the rapid expansion of global data center infrastructure investment, thereby boosting the rapid growth of the LED data center lighting segmented application market. In terms of regional markets, North America leads the world in data center construction, accounting for nearly half of the demand. Next is Asia, including mainland China, Japan, and Southeast Asia (Thailand, India, Malaysia), where the demand for computing power is rapidly growing. Europe is also entering an expansion era, investing in new data center infrastructure, such as Google's plan to invest 5 billion pounds in building data centers in the UK.

"AI's rapid development is the main driving force," said Dylan Huang. "Tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, and Alibaba Cloud continue to increase their investment in hyperscale data centers, and related lighting product orders have become a significant growth highlight during the market downturn. Whether in Europe or the Asia-Pacific market, we can clearly see this trend."

He added that the growth of regional markets is particularly impressive. For example, in Southeast Asia, according to the Thailand Board of Investment, the data center business attracted 28 projects in the first half of 2025 alone, with a total investment of up to 16.1 billion US dollars. This high-density demand for computing power is fundamentally changing the design, delivery, and operation models of data centers and is placing unprecedented high demands on lighting solutions.

Challenges and Key Considerations for Data Center Lighting Applications
According to TrendForce, lighting accounts for less than 2% of the total construction cost of data centers and is often overlooked. However, as data center scales expand and core machine room areas increase, the importance of lighting systems is becoming increasingly prominent and can no longer be ignored. To promote green development of data centers, multiple countries and international organizations have issued relevant policies. For example, China requires new large and super-large data centers to reduce PUE to below 1.3 by 2025. The United States is increasing the retirement of old and inefficient data centers and requires new data centers to have a PUE below 1.4 and old renovated data centers to have a PUE below 1.5. Lighting systems have transformed from an "overlooked segment" to an indispensable part of achieving green and low-carbon goals.

"In the special ecosystem of data centers, lighting is considered a simple task of illumination, but in reality, in the construction of modern hyperscale data centers, especially with increasingly stringent carbon management, lighting, as an indispensable part of the power system, is increasingly focused on energy efficiency utilization, and there are many factors to consider," emphasized Jack Chen.

First, Jack Chen believes that the primary consideration for data center lighting products is reliability. Key facilities in data centers need to operate continuously and stably 24/7, ensuring long-term fault-free operation. The reliability and lifespan requirements for lighting far exceed those of ordinary commercial lighting venues. Additionally, in high-density machine rooms, replacing fixtures is difficult, so maintenance frequency must be reduced, and hot-swappable support is necessary.

Secondly, energy-saving and PUE pressure. Jack Chen stated that although lighting is not the main energy consumer, it has a direct impact on PUE, and any energy-saving measures are crucial. High efficiency and energy-saving are hard indicators.
Finally, intelligent control systems need to be seamlessly integrated and deeply integrated with building management systems (BMS), supporting wireless or wired light management systems, sensors, automatic dimming, and fault alarm functions to achieve on-demand lighting, further saving energy and reducing PUE values.

Of course, thermal management is also important, especially in data center machine rooms, which require low heat loads. Therefore, the additional heat generated by lighting must be reduced, Jack Chen added.

LEDVANCE's End-to-End Solutions for Data Center Lighting
In the face of challenges, LEDVANCE regards data centers as a key vertical application market, playing a role far beyond that of a lighting manufacturer. It provides end-to-end solutions for data center lighting applications, including LED fixtures, control systems, design support, and certification documents.

According to reports, the application space for data center lighting is mainly divided into six major areas: data center halls/machine rooms, corridors and passages, emergency exits, office areas, back-end control rooms, and external spaces. For data center halls, LEDVANCE offers a comprehensive solution based on the TruSys Flex system. Jack Chen introduced, "This is a highly modular design system that supports various installations and connections, and also allows the use of blind covers between fixtures. The entire system is based on the DALI-2 lighting control protocol, integrated with human presence sensors, and can automatically adjust brightness. Additionally, it is equipped with two DALI-2 Pro IoT controllers for management and zonal control, achieving intelligent management."

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In terms of reliability, Jack Chen pointed out that the product has a high light efficiency of 175lm/W, a lifespan of 100,000 hours under L90 test conditions, and a 5-year warranty.

"The TruSys Flex series linear lights offers modular design facilitates future upgrades or expansions, extending the service life. Additionally, the long lifespan can reduce frequent replacements and waste, lowering maintenance resources, in line with the current trend of low-carbon green circular economy development," Dylan Huang further added.

LEDVANCE Data Center Lighting Case - TruSys Flex System - Ziggo, Netherlands (Image Source: LEDVANCE)

It is worth mentioning that LEDVANCE has accumulated many international cases in data center lighting solutions, including the Ziggo data center in the Netherlands, which is a collaboration between LEDVANCE and local installer and service provider IBBR, using the TruSys Flex lighting solution. According to Dylan Huang, this case is an upgrade and renovation project, not just a replacement project, but a combination of sensors and IoT control, achieving more than 80% energy savings and rapid delivery, significantly reducing operating expenses (OPEX).

Future Market Outlook
Finally, talking about the future market development trends of data center lighting, Dylan Huang stated that under the policy support and the construction boom of high-tech green data center facilities in various regions around the world, the data center lighting segmented market is expected to have a promising future in the next few years, especially the construction of hyperscale data centers bringing new opportunities for the development of this segmented market. With increasingly stringent carbon emission management, green products with Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification will become more attractive in the future.
To seize opportunities, LEDVANCE is shifting from past channel management to focusing more on product development, with a 30% increase in the number of R&D team members. "Our goal is to provide deeply customized services to project customers with a differentiated product strategy. We believe that LEDVANCE has the strength to provide world-class data center lighting solutions for top tech companies like Google, Tencent, and Alibaba Cloud."

Author: Christine Liu, Senior Analyst of TrendForce

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