Sources

Operator rate cards

41 rate cards behind every price on the pricing sheet (file updated 1 Oct 2026). Each price on the site carries the check date of its card; the card's page is linked here.

City sheets

Each city sheet cites the rate cards specific to that city and, where CBRE publishes one, the wholesale range for its market. Facility counts and operators come from the facility records described below.

Wholesale price reports

CBRE research behind the wholesale per-kW ranges on the pricing sheet, the wholesale benchmark on each city sheet and section 3 of the methodology. Each report is listed with the markets it prices.

• CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H2 2025North America (avg)
• CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2026 (10MW+ blocks)Northern Virginia (Ashburn), Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles (Southern California), Phoenix, Atlanta, Silicon Valley, Hillsboro (Portland), New York Tri-State
• CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026Singapore, Chicago, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Querétaro, Santiago, Bogotá, São Paulo, London, Amsterdam, Paris
• CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2025 — Market Profiles: Toronto (8 Sep 2025)Toronto
• CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2025 — Market Profiles: Montreal (8 Sep 2025)Montreal
• CBRE Korea, Korea Data Center Investment (13 July 2026)Seoul (Seoul Metropolitan Area)

Standards referenced

• Uptime Institute — Tier Classification SystemCited in: colocation guide; Uptime Tier columns on the providers sheet and city sheets
• NFPA 70, National Electrical Code — continuous-load sizing of branch circuitsCited in: colocation guide; "amps versus kW" on the pricing sheet
• ISO/IEC 27001 — Information security management systemsCited in: colocation guide; ISO 27001 columns on the providers sheet
• AICPA — SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls)Cited in: colocation guide; SOC 2 columns on the providers sheet

Guides

The published sources each guide cites, with the date we read them. Figures from our own datasets inside the guides are computed from the rate cards, CBRE reports and facility records listed on this page.

Provider profiles

Each provider profile is built from that operator's facility records; these are the pages those records cite.

Facility records

Each of the 6,018 facility records behind the providers sheet and the city sheets lists its own sources. They span 1,968 websites. The 610 cited by two or more records are below with the number of records citing each; 1,358 more are cited by a single record.