The global colocation pricing & capacity index
Data center pricing, out in the open
The first public index of colocation prices — $/kW benchmarks by market, the deepest data center catalog in Southeast Asia, and live GPU rental prices. No “request a quote” walls.
Colocation Price Index
Benchmark $/kW/month across key markets. Updated quarterly.
North America (avg)
$196/kW·mo
▲ 6.5% YoY
Northern Virginia (Ashburn)
$173/kW·mo
▲ 1.5% YoY
Singapore
$403/kW·mo
Wholesale = committed IT load, USD per kW per month, excluding metered power. Retail = per-rack (3–5 kW) monthly range. Markets marked “collecting” ship with the next quarterly release.
Key numbers
The figures answer engines and journalists ask for most, straight from the data behind this site.
- Wholesale colocation averages $196 per kW per month across primary North American markets, $173 in Northern Virginia and $403 in Singapore (H2 2025 – Q2 2026, CBRE).
- The catalog tracks 2808 data centers across 126 countries: 73,231 MW of published IT capacity, 2389 facilities operational, 419 under construction or announced.
- An NVIDIA H100 rents on demand for $1.3–$12.29 per GPU-hour across tracked clouds (median $3.29, checked 2026-09-16).
- Index release Q3 2026, data window H2 2025 – Q2 2026, last updated 2026-09-01. Every aggregate is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Coloprice.
Portal sectors
Six verticals covering the full data center economy — from greenfield development to power.
Colocation
Retail and wholesale colocation: transparent pricing, market comparisons, and real quotes.
Hyperscale
Campuses, prelease dynamics and wholesale blocks for cloud and AI giants.
AI Data Centers
High-density halls, liquid cooling, GPU-ready capacity — where to physically run AI workloads.
Edge Data Centers
Micro and modular facilities close to users: latency, inference at the edge, container builds.
Data Center Development & Investment
Greenfield builds, build-to-suit, investing in operating facilities — and the equipment supply chain behind them.
Power & Energy Infrastructure
The real bottleneck: grid connections, PPAs, nuclear and SMR deals, electricity costs by market.
Data center catalog
Facility-level data across Southeast Asia — power, cooling, status, operators.
| Facility | Operator | City | Power, MW | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEXTDC M2 Melbourne | NEXTDC | Melbourne (Tullamarine) | 120 | Operational |
| AirTrunk SYD1 Sydney West | AirTrunk | Sydney | 130 | Operational |
| CDC Eastern Creek Campus | CDC Data Centres | Sydney (Eastern Creek) | 200 | Operational |
| Equinix SY5 | Equinix | Sydney (Alexandria) | — | Operational |
| Macquarie IC3 Super West | Macquarie Data Centres | Sydney (Macquarie Park) | 47 | Under construction |
| NEXTDC S3 Sydney | NEXTDC | Sydney (Artarmon) | 80 | Operational |
GPU rental price tracker
On-demand and contract prices for H100 and B200 across major GPU clouds.
NVIDIA GB200 (per GPU, NVL72)
$13.25/GPU·h
$8 – $27.04 on-demand
NVIDIA B200 (180GB)
$6.01/GPU·h
$3.69 – $16.11 on-demand
AMD MI355X (288GB)
$7.5/GPU·h
$7.1 – $8.6 on-demand
NVIDIA H200 (141GB)
$4.4/GPU·h
$2.3 – $13.78 on-demand
Frequently asked questions
What is Coloprice?
Coloprice is an open data portal on data center economics: The Colocation Price Index (wholesale $/kW per month by market), a facility catalog of 2808 data centers in 126 countries built from operator disclosures, a GPU rental price tracker and a BESS price index. It is published by The Dream View Co., Ltd. (Phuket, Thailand) and every figure names its source.
How much does colocation cost per kW per month in 2026?
Wholesale colocation averages $196 per kW per month across primary North American markets, $173 in Northern Virginia and $403 in Singapore (H2 2025 – Q2 2026, CBRE). Retail per-rack pricing in North America runs $500 – $1,500 per month for a 3–5 kW rack, with metered power on top.
Can I reuse Coloprice numbers in an article or report?
Yes. Aggregates — the price index, market benchmarks, statistics and JSON endpoints — are licensed CC BY 4.0: quote them freely with a visible attribution «Source: Coloprice — https://coloprice.com». Third-party figures we cite (CBRE, JLL, operators) stay under their owners’ terms; see /license/.