Switch high-density data center quotes

Switch designs, builds and operates its own high-density data center campuses in the United States. The trade is a narrower choice of where you can land, engineered for much greater power and cooling per cabinet.

The company

What Switch is

Switch builds and runs its own campuses instead of assembling a portfolio, and the engineering is the pitch: extreme density per cabinet, hybrid air and liquid cooling, modular deployments and build-to-suit halls for customers taking whole rooms. It also runs a telecom procurement arm, so carrier services can be sourced through the same relationship as the space, and it sells network and security services against the facility. Because it develops campuses itself rather than assembling a portfolio, and picks sites for power, land and low disaster exposure rather than metro adjacency, geography is the first thing to settle and sometimes the thing that ends the conversation. Deals skew larger and longer than retail colocation, so expect a design discussion before a number.

Fit

When Switch is the right call

• Accelerated compute racks ordinary colocation cannot power or cool
• Build-to-suit requirements where you specify the hall yourself
• Workloads where power cost and campus scale outweigh metro proximity
• Long commitments that justify purpose-built space

Comparison

What to weigh Switch against

Against Digital Realty the comparison is purpose-built density versus portfolio breadth and the ability to land near your users. Equinix wins whenever the reason for the deployment is who else sits in the building, which is not what Switch is engineered around. For a market Switch does not serve, Flexential, TierPoint and DataBank cover more of the map and carry high-density options of their own.

Before you ask

Have this ready when you request quotes

• Total draw for the deployment, and how it spreads across the racks
• Whether your equipment is specified for liquid cooling or will run on air
• How much latency to users and cloud regions you can absorb
• Term length and the expansion rights you want written in
• Whether carrier services come through them or are sourced separately

Availability differs by address and by service, which is exactly what the quote process settles. Request competing quotes and see what Switch and the other providers at your location come back with, or browse every provider we work with.