Analysis, market trends, and practical guidance on data-center infrastructure, colocation, connectivity, and the global digital economy.
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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Right-sizing a footprint is a moving target, not a one-time calculation — the deployments that age well are the ones built with…
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Network diversity protects against a specific, common failure mode — a single upstream provider outage taking a facility fully offline.It is easy…
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Modular and pod-based design trades some of the economies of scale of a large build for speed to market and flexibility to…
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Streaming and media workloads place unusual demands on bandwidth and peering that a standard colocation deployment is not always built to absorb…
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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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Certifications are a useful filter, not a guarantee. They confirm a facility has the right controls in place at the point of…
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PUE is easy to quote and easy to misread — a low number on a marketing page does not always reflect real-world…
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