Coloprice Score · methodology 2026.08

Best AI-ready data centers: 2026 ranking

264 facilities in the Coloprice catalog qualify as AI-ready data centers; their median Coloprice Score is 26 out of 100. The table ranks 25 of them by score — computed only from what each operator publishes and what we verified against primary sources.

264 facilitiesColoprice Score · 26 out of 100

Top 25 by Coloprice Score

Who is in this list: Facilities whose operator declares AI / high-density readiness (liquid-cooling options, ≥30 kW racks or GPU-cluster hosting). Showing the top 25 of 264.

#	Facility	Operator	Location	MW	Score	Class
1	NEXTDC S3 Sydney	NEXTDC	Sydney (Artarmon), Australia	80	73	B
2	CtrlS Chennai Data Center Park	CtrlS Datacenters	Chennai, India	72	71	B
3	Iron Mountain CHN-1	Iron Mountain	Chennai, India	23.2	67	B
4	Iron Mountain CHN-2	Iron Mountain	Chennai, India	19	67	B
5	Sify Rabale Data Center Campus (Tower 5)	Sify Technologies	Navi Mumbai, India	43	62	C
6	CtrlS Mumbai Data Center Campus	CtrlS Datacenters	Mumbai, India	95	61	C
7	VITRO Santa Rosa	ePLDT (VITRO Inc.)	Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines	100	60	C
8	Switch Datacenters AMS4	Switch Datacenters	Diemen, Netherlands	14	60	C
9	NEXTDC KL1	NEXTDC	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	65	59	C
10	CtrlS Noida Data Center	CtrlS Datacenters	Noida, India	8	59	C
11	GSA01 Bangkok Campus (Bang Phli)	GSA Data Center (Gulf, Singtel Nxera, AIS)	Samut Prakan, Thailand	20	58	C
12	PDG MU1 Navi Mumbai	Princeton Digital Group	Navi Mumbai (Airoli), India	150	58	C
13	FPT Fornix HCM02	FPT	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	—	55	C
14	Digital Realty ICN10 (Digital Seoul 1)	Digital Realty	Seoul, South Korea	12	54	C
15	STT Fairview 1	STT GDC Philippines	Metro Manila (Quezon City), Philippines	124	53	C
16	Equinix PA10	Equinix	Paris, France	—	52	C
17	Aligned SLC-03 (West Jordan)	Aligned Data Centers	West Jordan, United States	100	52	C
18	Sify Hyderabad Data Center	Sify Technologies	Hyderabad, India	14.4	52	C
19	Khazna AUH6 Masdar City	Khazna Data Centers	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	31.8	51	C
20	Equinix HK6	Equinix	Hong Kong (Tsuen Wan), Hong Kong	—	51	C
21	Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn)	Aligned Data Centers	Ashburn, United States	120	51	C
22	Aligned IAD-01 (Ashburn)	Aligned Data Centers	Ashburn, United States	60	51	C
23	Aligned DFW-02 (Plano)	Aligned Data Centers	Plano, United States	36	51	C
24	Aligned ORD-02 (Northlake)	Aligned Data Centers	Northlake, United States	36	51	C
25	Aligned DFW-01 (Plano)	Aligned Data Centers	Plano, United States	30	51	C

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How we ranked them

Coloprice Score is a 0–100 total of five axes: resilience (tier level weighted by the class of evidence, up to 35), compliance (independent audits, up to 20), transparency (how many of seven key fields are published, up to 20), scale (published MW on a log scale plus liquid cooling and AI readiness, up to 15) and maturity (status and age, up to 10). Every input is a field on the facility card, and every card cites its sources.

Nothing here is opinion or paid placement: an operator can only move up by publishing more data or citing more certificates. A dashed class means the operator disclosed too little for a class to be assigned honestly — the score is still computed. Full methodology, class thresholds and the top-50 across all countries: Coloprice Score rankings.

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