What a Facility Audit Should Actually Cover β Updated for 2026 (20) β Updated for 2026 (20)
A facility audit is only useful if it goes beyond the marketing tour β the questions worth asking are the ones the…
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A facility audit is only useful if it goes beyond the marketing tour β the questions worth asking are the ones the…
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Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.It is easy…
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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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AI and accelerated-compute workloads have rewritten the assumptions colocation buyers used to rely on, particularly around power density, which now regularly exceeds…
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Colocation contracts reward careful reading precisely because the parts that matter most β renewal escalators, exit terms, and SLA remedies β are…
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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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Network diversity protects against a specific, common failure mode β a single upstream provider outage taking a facility fully offline.Behind every application…
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Physical security standards vary more between facilities than most buyers expect, and the gap between "has cameras" and a genuinely layered, audited…
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