Simple arithmetic shows that newly constructed, large-scale private data centers with high occupancy rates can sometimes undercut colos on unit costs, but in most cases colos remain significantly cheaper.
Several influential and well-resourced companies claim that the next wave of data centers will be deployed in space. Should this be taken seriously?
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready certification for colocation facilities has been around for nearly six years, yet what the program actually entails remains obscure.
Giant data centers are being planned and built across the world to support AI, with successful projects forming the backbone of a huge expansion in capacity. But many are also uncertain, indicating risks and persistent headwinds.
Uptime Institute's 2025 Service Providers and Capacity Survey (n=872) benchmarks the industry in the areas of public cloud, capacity in owned data centers, and capacity in colocation facilities.The attached data files below provide full results of…
Financial data suggests that hyperscalers' use of colocation facilities has grown substantially over the past few years. Their investments in colocations also show no signs of slowing down.
AWS has recently cut prices on a range of GPU-backed instances. These price reductions make it harder to justify an investment in dedicated AI infrastructure.
The terms "retail" and "wholesale" colocation not only describe different types of colocation customers, but also how providers price and package their products, and the extent to which customers can specify their requirements.
Although the share of processing handled by the corporate or enterprise sector has declined over the years, it has never disappeared. But there are signs that it may reclaim a more central role.
Uptime Institute's 2024 Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey (n=770) benchmarks data center capacity trends and looks at IT growth rates and how operators are adding data center capacity by building new and/or expanding existing facilities. The survey…
As new capacity is concentrated in super-sized data centers and legacy facilities continue to operate in large numbers, market trends become more difficult to read. This report looks at how size affects the age distribution of capacity.
Bringing certain IT workloads closer to users and connected devices helps organizations to manage data growth, user experience and expansion. This report looks at the deployment models for data center facilities and IT at the edge.
Data center spending is on the rise; forecasting capacity requirements remains a top challenge for operators; and data center infrastructure management and prefabricated data center components are now mainstream. These are some of the findings of…
Highly efficient, large-scale data centers are being provisioned faster and more cheaply than ever, enabling a rapid build-out of IT and cloud capacity. This Uptime Institute report focuses on best practices and best-in-class provisioning. Which…
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