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Published 2026-09-26
The Colocation Price Index — Q3 2026 report
Wholesale colocation benchmarks for 16 markets, operator-published retail rate cards, the GPU rental index and Southeast Asia's published capacity pipeline — in one citable snapshot.
The Q3 2026 edition covers wholesale colocation rates in US dollars per kW of committed IT load per month for 16 markets on four continents, sourced from published CBRE and JLL market reports and normalised by Coloprice. Singapore remains the most expensive market tracked at $403/kW/month (range $330–475); Northern Virginia, the largest market in the world, sits at $173/kW/month for 10 MW+ blocks after a +1.5% year.
Retail pricing is reported only where operators publish a rate card themselves: 11 operator entries across the US, UK, Netherlands and Germany, from $59 per 1U to $2,499 per cage, each with the power and bandwidth the operator states. Absence of a market means no operator there publishes prices, not that it is cheaper.
The catalog behind the index holds 3,488 data centers from 934 operators in 135 countries; 1,555 of them publish IT capacity. In Southeast Asia the published pipeline is now larger than the operational base in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam — a signal of where the next benchmark markets will come from.
Key figures
- Singapore $403/kW/mo — the highest wholesale benchmark tracked; Hong Kong $295, Tokyo $280, Frankfurt $250.
- Chicago +14.7% year on year to $215/kW/mo (250–500 kW requirement) — the steepest published rise in the set.
- Latin America: Querétaro $260, Santiago $200, Bogotá $190, São Paulo $160 — all flat year on year in CBRE's 2026 global survey.
- London, Amsterdam and Paris ship with the European range ($165–265) only; city averages are expected in the Q4 2026 release.
- GPU on-demand: H100 median $3.29/GPU-hr with a $1.30 floor; GB200 first sub-$10 on-demand listing at $8.00/GPU-hr.
Wholesale benchmarks, Q3 2026
| Market | $/kW/month | Range | YoY | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | $403 | $330–475 | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 |
| Hong Kong | $295 | — | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Tokyo | $280 | — | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Querétaro | $260 | $250–270 | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Frankfurt | $250 | $235–265 | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Chicago | $215 | $200–230 | +14.7% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Santiago | $200 | $190–210 | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| North America (avg) | $196 | — | +6.5% | CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H2 2025 |
| Bogotá | $190 | $150–230 | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Sydney | $188 | — | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Northern Virginia (Ashburn) | $173 | $160–185 | +1.5% | CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2026 (10MW+ blocks) |
| São Paulo | $160 | $130–190 | 0% | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Thailand (Bangkok) | collecting | — | — | Index v1 — data collection in progress |
| London | collecting | $165–265 | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Amsterdam | collecting | $165–265 | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
| Paris | collecting | $165–265 | — | CBRE, Global Data Center Trends 2026 (17 June 2026) |
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Facts for journalists
- 3,795 data centers from 1,115 operators in 183 countries are tracked; 1,633 of them publish IT capacity — undisclosed values are null, never estimated.
- The index covers 12 markets with a published wholesale benchmark and 4 in collection; the highest is Singapore at $403/kW/month, the lowest São Paulo at $160.
- The GPU rental index tracks 10 models three times a week; H100 on-demand median is $3.29/GPU-hour.
- The Coloprice Score is computed from published facts only and cannot be bought; awards are assigned by the same rules.
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