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The top EMEA colocation markets in 2025 are shaped by absorption, subsea connectivity, and regulatory dynamics. London and Frankfurt remain the anchors of Europe’s FLAP-D cluster, while Paris and Madrid are rising fast. In the Middle East, Dubai and Riyadh are scaling with government-backed investment, and in Africa, Johannesburg and Nairobi are becoming continental gateways. These hubs represent the most strategic digital nodes across EMEA for hyperscalers, enterprises, and AI workloads.

Governments and markets are reshaping AI infrastructure. Learn why colocation is the fastest, safest, and most cost-effective first step under the new Action Plan.

The top U.S. colocation markets in 2025 are defined by absorption, interconnection density, and expansion capacity. Northern Virginia continues to dominate with nearly half of national absorption, while Chicago, Phoenix, Dallas–Fort Worth, and Atlanta are establishing themselves as Tier I hubs. Emerging markets like Austin–San Antonio and Denver are on the rise, and Miami is one to watch as a LATAM gateway. These metros represent the most strategic nodes for hyperscalers, enterprises, and AI workloads. This list covers the 10 most strategic U.S. colocation hubs in 2025, backed by the latest insights from JLL (2024 Data Center Outlook) and other industry leaders. Whether you’re looking for interconnection density, expansion capacity, or strategic proximity to end users, these markets represent the most critical nodes in America’s data center ecosystem.

The most effective colocation strategy combines scalability, connectivity, and resilience. For AI deployments, key considerations include high-density power and advanced cooling. For edge, location, and carrier diversity matter most. For enterprises, compliance and the integration of hybrid IT are critical. By evaluating these factors, organizations can select colocation services that optimize performance while managing cost and risk.

Most IT leaders spend over 8 hours researching vendors for every project, only to wonder if they missed a better option. Here’s why DIY vendor selection costs more than you think, and how the right network can save time and deliver better outcomes.

Bare metal servers are the infrastructure of choice when raw performance, full-stack control, and isolation matter most. With direct access to compute resources and zero abstraction, bare metal enables you to optimize for speed, security, and predictability. Whether you're training AI models, running edge environments, or handling compliance-heavy workloads, modern bare metal gives you the performance and visibility that mission-critical applications demand.

The GENIUS Act is the first major U.S. crypto law—and it changes everything for stablecoins and the infrastructure that supports them. While the Act brings long-awaited regulatory clarity, it also introduces new risks: reserve mandates that could strain Treasury markets, federal gatekeeping over issuers, global regulatory pushback, compliance overload, and the pressure to adapt faster than ever. In this post, we break down the top five concerns of the GENIUS Act and show how smart infrastructure choices—resilient, auditable, and regulation-ready—can be your best defense in this new era of digital finance.

For some time now, the US crypto industry has operated in a state of high potential but with uncertain and persistent regulations. That era has finally ended because the signing of the GENIUS Act in July 2025 is way more than just a legislative step. It's probably one of the most significant pieces of regulatory clarity the US digital asset market has ever had.

So, you’re ready or have decided to run a Solana server, and you understand the potential and are prepared to join one of the world’s fastest blockchains. But then realized that the most important decision you'll make isn't just about software, it's all about the hardware and configuration that powers your operation, and ultimately, impacts your profitability.

On July 23, 2025, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” a sweeping policy framework designed to boost U.S. competitiveness, accelerate AI innovation, and modernize the digital backbone that supports it, namely, the nation’s data centers and telecom networks.

For business leaders and IT strategists, ‘’AI Action Plan’’ is more than just news, it signals a coming, government-backed acceleration in the construction of the very foundations of the AI economy: data centers, power grids, semiconductor fabs, and so much more.  This is your complete guide to understanding what the AI Action Plan means for your infrastructure strategy and how to get prepared.

The top global colocation markets are diverse, including established powerhouses like Northern Virginia, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, Dublin, Chicago, Shanghai, Beijing, and Amsterdam

GPUs are no longer just for gaming. Explore the five most common enterprise GPU use cases in healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and beyond.

Learn about data center colocation options and discover key differences in security, cost, and scalability.

Wondering how to get your data center truly ready for AI? The answer is: don't even think about doing it all yourself.

two major tech events went head-to-head: NVIDIA’s GTC in San Jose and the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Just an hour apart but worlds away in tone, style, and crowd.

The new integration streamlines digital infrastructure procurement by delivering immediate DIA quotes with the simplicity of a click

The annual report examines the latest data center and cloud computing trends, strategies, requirements and other findings from an annual quantitative survey and in-depth interview with senior IT decision makers.

Zayo is now the first and only provider to offer Instant Pricing through Inflect’s newly introduced Quote Tool, a near real-time procurement tool of network services. This allows Zayo customers to immediately see and compare terms for DIA such as access speed and contract length and instantly initiate the contracting process.

Inflect, Inc., the world’s leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure, today announced the launch of advanced quoting capabilities in its portal and a new Partner Program, making it easier than ever for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure to connect and transact.

At Inflect, we believe businesses should be able to quickly find and purchase digital infrastructure to build the next great app, empower their employees or delight their customers— without the headaches usually associated with finding such solutions.

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Create custom interactive maps of your service locations in minutes with Inflect Maps, a new tool for service providers from Inflect!

In my constant and somewhat obsessive pursuit of smarter ways to build a successful network infrastructure strategy, a core set of guiding themes comes to mind