Why PUE Matters: Energy Efficiency in Modern Colocation Facilities — Updated for 2026 (4)
PUE is easy to quote and easy to misread — a low number on a marketing page does not always…
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Modular and Pod-Based Data Center Design Explained — Updated for 2026 (3)
Modular and pod-based design trades some of the economies of scale of a large build for speed to market and…
Understanding Colocation Pricing: Per-kW vs Per-Rack — Updated for 2026 (2)
Colocation pricing rarely lines up cleanly across providers, because the headline rate is only one line in a bill shaped…
How Subsea Cable Landing Points Influence Facility Site Selection — Updated for 2026 (4)
Subsea cable landing points are not just a network engineering detail — they quietly shape which metros become colocation hubs…
How Network Diversity Protects Against Single Points of Failure — Updated for 2026 (5)
Network diversity protects against a specific, common failure mode — a single upstream provider outage taking a facility fully offline.There…
Immersion and Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling: A Buyer Primer — Updated for 2026 (2)
Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can…
Colocation Power Contracts: Fixed, Variable, and Pass-Through Models — Updated for 2026
Colocation contracts reward careful reading precisely because the parts that matter most — renewal escalators, exit terms, and SLA remedies…
How Subsea Cable Landing Points Influence Facility Site Selection — Updated for 2026 (3)
Subsea cable landing points are not just a network engineering detail — they quietly shape which metros become colocation hubs…
Generator and UPS Design: What Sits Behind “99.999% Uptime” — Updated for 2026
Headline uptime figures are easy to publish and hard to verify independently, which is exactly why asking for real incident…
How Vacancy Rates Are Reshaping Colocation Negotiations — Updated for 2026 (3)
Tightening vacancy rates change the negotiating dynamic entirely — in a supply-constrained market, buyers who move early keep leverage that…