Power Density Trends in Colocation: From 5kW to 80kW Racks — Updated for 2026 (3)
Power density has quietly become the real constraint on colocation capacity, often binding well before a facility runs out of…
Month: July 2026
What Colocation Market Consolidation Means for Pricing Power — Updated for 2026
Colocation pricing rarely lines up cleanly across providers, because the headline rate is only one line in a bill shaped…
How Network Diversity Protects Against Single Points of Failure — Updated for 2026 (3)
Network diversity protects against a specific, common failure mode — a single upstream provider outage taking a facility fully offline.Ask…
Water Usage Effectiveness: The Metric Colocation Buyers Overlook — Updated for 2026 (2)
Water usage is the metric that gets far less attention than PUE, yet it matters enormously in water-stressed regions where…
Designing Colocation Resilience: Redundancy and Concurrent Maintainability — Updated for 2026 (4)
Redundancy on a spec sheet and resilience in practice are two different things — the gap between them only shows…
How to Choose Between Tier III and Tier IV Colocation Data Centers — Updated for 2026 (3)
Tier IV facilities are engineered for fault tolerance — every capacity system is dual-powered, so a single failure never takes…
GPU Rack Power Delivery: The Infrastructure Behind the Chip — Updated for 2026
GPU racks draw power at a rate that simply was not on the roadmap for most facilities built even five…
Biometric and Physical Security Standards in Colocation — Updated for 2026 (2)
Physical security standards vary more between facilities than most buyers expect, and the gap between "has cameras" and a genuinely…
Why PUE Matters: Energy Efficiency in Modern Colocation Facilities — Updated for 2026
PUE is easy to quote and easy to misread — a low number on a marketing page does not always…
Colocation Benchmarks: What “Good” Actually Looks Like — Updated for 2026 (4)
Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.It…