Provider tours are designed to impress. A structured checklist keeps you focused on the questions that actually predict whether a facility will serve you well over a multi-year term.
Power and cooling
- What power density is available per rack today, and what’s the path higher?
- Is the redundancy design genuinely N+1 or 2N — and can they prove it?
- What cooling approach supports higher-density deployments?
Connectivity and ecosystem
- How many carriers are on-net, and what does cross-connect cost?
- Are direct cloud on-ramps available?
- What latency exists to your key adjacencies and users?
Commercial and operational
- What are the price escalators over the term?
- What renewal and exit rights does the contract include?
- What’s the documented SLA, and what’s the remedy when it’s missed?
- What does the support and remote-hands model actually look like?
Use the checklist as leverage
Running every provider through the same questions does two things: it surfaces the real differences, and it signals that you’re evaluating objectively. Both improve the terms you’ll ultimately negotiate.
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