Analysis, market trends, and practical guidance on data-center infrastructure, colocation, connectivity, and the global digital economy.
Edge colocation trades the economies of scale of a large campus for proximity to end users, a trade-off that makes sense once…
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Healthcare workloads bring data residency and compliance requirements that narrow the provider shortlist well before price ever enters the conversation.Behind every application…
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The advertised rack rate is rarely the number that determines total spend — cross-connects, power draw, and renewal terms usually move the…
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GPU racks draw power at a rate that simply was not on the roadmap for most facilities built even five years ago,…
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Interconnection density compounds in value over time: every additional carrier and cloud on-ramp in a facility makes it more attractive to the…
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Peering relationships determine real-world latency far more than geographic distance alone — two facilities the same distance from users can perform very…
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Fire suppression design varies more between facilities than most buyers realise, and the difference matters enormously if it is ever actually tested.The…
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Colocation pricing rarely lines up cleanly across providers, because the headline rate is only one line in a bill shaped by cross-connects,…
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