Most facilities quote a kW number they can't sustain at your rack.
Get 2–4 high-density colocation options in 48 hours — usable kW confirmed
Providers pay our fee. Your price is the same as going direct.
“A rack sold as 15 kW doesn't always sustain 15. I ask what's usable after A/B redundancy before a facility goes on your list”
— Bob Spiegel, Founder, QuoteColo
Clients helped since 2004
Worldwide providers
to Buyers
in 48 h
Recently placed:
12 kW CPU-dense rack
Hot-aisle containment, full cabinet
28 kW × 4 racks
In-row cooling, consolidation from 9 standard cabinets
45 kW GPU rack
Rear-door heat exchanger, chilled water confirmed
80 kW liquid-cooled
Direct-to-chip, CDU installed, not planned
15 kW in 8U
High power, small footprint, no full-cabinet minimum
High-density colocation pricing by market
Per kW, per month. 42–48U rack. 2026 snapshot.
| Location | Price per kW / month |
|---|---|
| Ashburn, VA | $200 – $260 |
| New York, NY | $230 – $290 |
| Silicon Valley, CA | $240 – $310 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $220 – $280 |
| Chicago, IL | $210 – $270 |
| Dallas, TX | $180 – $240 |
| Atlanta, GA | $180 – $240 |
| Seattle, WA | $190 – $250 |
| Phoenix, AZ | $180 – $230 |
| Miami, FL | $220 – $280 |
| Minneapolis, MN | $170 – $220 |
| Charlotte, NC | $170 – $220 |
Reality check: your real monthly bill will be higher
$/kW/month = colocation MRC only. Power billing model, cross-connects, and remote hands typically add 25–30% to the real monthly cost (full range 20–60% depending on connectivity requirements).
Prices and availability change every month.
What counts as high density?
Not every “high-density” facility means the same thing. The infrastructure changes fast as kW/rack climbs.
10–12
kW / rack
CPU-dense servers
Standard air cooling.
15–30
kW / rack
High-power territory
Containment starts to matter.
30–60
kW / rack
Cooling decides
In-row / RDHx becomes critical.
60–100+
kW / rack
Only a few facilities qualify
We check what's installed today, not what's planned.
Finding high-density capacity before QuoteColo
Emailing facilities direct
You contact fifteen. Several never reply. Several want a discovery call before pricing. The rest quote something generic that doesn't match your kW per rack, cooling or timeline.
IT consultants
Right for multi-site enterprise programs with compliance and design work. They'll build you a solution for a fee. Overkill for placing a dense rack quickly.
Peer referrals
A CTO you trust points you at the facility that worked for them. That's one data point at their density, in their market, on their timeline — not a comparison.
QuoteColo
Referral networks are built around operators who pay to be in them, so regional facilities are underrepresented by design. Specs once, 2–4 comparable quotes back: power, cross-connects, remote hands, term flexibility, availability.
Get 2–4 qualified options in 48 hours
Comparable quotes, normalized to the same line items.
Free for buyers
Your price is the same as going direct.
You will get all-in price estimates by email
From 500+ providers. No sales calls, no long forms.
Trusted service since 2004
5,000+ clients helped.
How it works
Tell us your density
1kW per rack, rack count, market and Plan B, term. If you don't know what cooling your hardware needs, give us the hardware and we'll tell you.
We verify usable kW, not nameplate
2Facilities that quote peak instead of sustained, that can't say what A/B redundancy leaves you, or that describe cooling as available rather than installed, don't reach your shortlist.
Comparable quotes by email
3Normalized to the same line items — rack rate, power model, cross-connects, remote hands, bandwidth — so two quotes at the same $/kW can actually be compared. No calls until you've reviewed them, and we flag the terms worth pushing back on.
Five ways facilities deliver high density — and what each costs you
Cooling method decides price, lead time and how far you can scale later.
| Type | Power | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air-cooled + containment | 10–15 kW | Dense CPU racks, storage-heavy, predictable SaaS | The quoted figure may be peak, not sustained. Confirm usable kW and overage terms |
| Enhanced air / in-row | 15–30 kW | Mixed CPU/GPU, consolidation projects | Install lead times, rack placement rules, blanking panel requirements |
| RDHx / heat-exchanger | 30–60 kW | Hot GPU racks, HPC beyond standard air | Hardware compatibility, who maintains it, expansion constraints |
| Liquid-ready | Path to liquid | Teams starting at 20–30 kW and scaling | “Liquid-ready” varies widely by provider. Verify what infrastructure exists today and what costs extra |
| Liquid-cooled | 60–100+ kW | Large GPU clusters, AI training, HPC | Higher MRC plus cooling service, installation and maintenance line items |
| High power, small footprint | High kW in 1–12U | Early GPU teams, edge, test-then-scale | Some facilities prioritize full racks despite advertising no minimums |
Ask whether power is metered (actual kW used) or allocated (reserved capacity), and whether A/B redundancy changes usable power.
Dense racks cost more each and less in total
A single high-density rack carries a higher sticker price. You need fewer of them.
| Workload | Spread across standard racks | In one high-density rack | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~7 kW | ~$3,000/mo | ~$1,500/mo | ~50% |
| ~9 kW | ~$4,500/mo | ~$1,500/mo | ~67% |
| ~20 kW AI cluster | ~$8,000/mo (4 cabinets) | ~$4,000/mo | ~50% |
Fewer cabinets means fewer cross-connects and fewer switch ports. You scale vertically instead of horizontally, which avoids the cascade of costs that comes with adding racks.
What a high-density quote leaves out
A base high-density quote covers four things. Everything else is a line item.
What the base quote includes
Dedicated circuits with A/B feeds where requested. A baseline port, often ~1 Gbps. Secure cabinet space in a Tier III-class environment. 24/7 monitoring and basic remote hands.
What it doesn't
Cross-connects per circuit per month. Bandwidth above the baseline port. Remote hands beyond basic, with after-hours rates. Power overage if billing is metered. Cooling service and maintenance on liquid deployments.
The question that settles it
Is power metered or allocated, and does A/B redundancy change usable kW?
Who Uses High-Density GPU Infrastructure
High-density GPU racks power the most demanding workloads across industries. Here are some of the teams and use cases we support.
AI / ML & GPU Teams
Training and inference clusters for large language models, multi-GPU workloads, and predictable high performance.
HPC / Research Workloads
Weather modeling, simulation, large-scale analytics, and performance-hinged workloads with stable high power and interconnect.
Financial Services
Algorithmic trading, risk modeling, fraud detection, low-latency pipelines, and audit-driven environments.
Healthcare + Biotech
Medical imaging, genomics pipelines, and research compute with security and compliance constraints.
Media & Entertainment
Rendering farms, VFX pipelines, transcoding, real-time streaming operations, and interactive content production.
Gaming & Esports
Latency-sensitive backends, matchmaking, real-time services, and high-density GPU clusters close to networks and peering.
Telecom / 5G + Edge
Edge platforms, low-latency processing closer to users, distributed presence, and network-intensive workloads.
Energy (Oil & Gas)
Seismic processing, reservoir modeling, and AI-assisted analytics — classic HPC use cases with high compute density and stable power.
Professional Services / Consulting Analytics
Heavy modeling, forecasting, data processing, and internal HPC environments for client projects.
CDNs + Video Platforms
Distributed infrastructure for video processing, transcoding, and content delivery where performance and proximity matter.
Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics
Simulation environments, sensor data processing, and AI model training that require dense GPU racks and high-throughput storage.
Scientific Labs & Pharmaceutical R&D
Molecular modeling, drug discovery simulations, and protein folding workloads that demand high-density compute in secure, compliant facilities.
«Most small regional providers are impossible to find with AI search. I know them, I know their prices, and I can tell you which ones have exactly what you need and what it will cost».
Bob Spiegel, Founder, QuoteColo
Tell us what you're deploying. We know who takes it.
No company details needed to start
500+ providers, off-market included
Real monthly cost, not just the rack rate