Methodology
Source directory
Every figure on Coloprice is attributed to its primary source next to the number. To keep pages readable, those attributions are text; this page is where they resolve — all 97 sources, grouped by dataset. Facility records in the catalog additionally cite operator websites, press releases and regulatory filings, named on each facility page.
Colocation pricing
Market rates in The Colocation Price Index. Used on /index/.
Electricity benchmarks
Commercial power tariffs by market. Used on /index/.
- EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (June 2026) / Electric Choice, Aug 2026eia.gov
- Electric Choice / EIA state rates, Aug 2026electricchoice.com
- SP Group, Electricity Tariff Revision Jul-Sep 2026spgroup.com.sg
- GlobalPetrolPrices — Malaysia business electricityglobalpetrolprices.com
- Eurostat electricity price statisticsec.europa.eu
- Alatau Zharyk Company / EnergoSbyt — electricity tariffs for legal entities, Almaty (from 5 June 2026)esalmaty.kz
- Электрические сети Армении — Тарифыena.am
- ОАО «НЭСК» — Тарифы на электроэнергиюnesk.kg
- ANRE — ANRE a aprobat noi prețuri reglementate pentru energia electricăanre.md
- YUZ.uz (state information portal) — new electricity and gas tariffs from 1 June 2026, Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 243yuz.uz
- Azerishiq — Tariff Council decisions, electricity tariffs (decision No. 19, 29 December 2024)azerishiq.az
- Caucasus Business Journal / GNERC — Georgia electricity tariffs +33% from 1 April 2026caucasusbusinessjournal.com
- Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority (SERA) — Electric Tariffsera.gov.sa
- Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) Bahrain — Tariffsewa.bh
GPU rental pricing
On-demand and contract rates in the GPU tracker. Used on /gpu/.
- GetDeploying — GB200 price comparisongetdeploying.com
- CoreWeave pricingcoreweave.com
- Spheron — GB200 NVL72 pricing guidespheron.network
- ComputePrices — B200 GPU pricecomputeprices.com
- AIMultiple — GPU cloud price indexaimultiple.com
- Nebius AI Cloud pricesnebius.com
- GPUperHour — Vultr AMD Instinct MI355Xgpuperhour.com
- Silicon Data — H100 rental price indexsilicondata.com
- Vast.ai live GPU pricingvast.ai
- Vantage — Azure ND96isr H100 v5 instance pricinginstances.vantage.sh
- Thunder Compute — MI300X pricingthundercompute.com
- DigitalOcean — GPU Droplets pricingdigitalocean.com
- cloudprice.net — Azure ND96isr MI300X v5cloudprice.net
- Civo — NVIDIA A100 GPU cloud pricingcivo.com
- RunPod pricingrunpod.io
- Beam — pricingbeam.cloud
Latency matrix
Published inter-region round-trip measurements. Used on /latency/.
Industry statistics
Figures on the stats page, one source per figure. Used on /stats/.
- Dell'Oro Groupprnewswire.com
- McKinseymckinsey.com
- MarketsandMarkets / Grand View Researchmarketsandmarkets.com
- JLLjll.com
- CBREcbre.com
- Silicon Data / SemiAnalysissilicondata.com
- ResearchAndMarkets, Southeast Asia Data Center Market Landscape 2026-2031researchandmarkets.com
- Mordor Intelligencemordorintelligence.com
- Thailand BOInationthailand.com
- Mingtiandimingtiandi.com
- Knight Frank via EdgePropedgeprop.my
- Malaysian government / DCDdatacenterdynamics.com
- SMR Intelsmrintel.com
- Constellation / Introlintrol.com
- Data Center Knowledgedatacenterknowledge.com
- MEA/PEA / Bangkok Post / BOI (UGT2)bangkokpost.com
- Statista — data centers worldwide by countrystatista.com
Sustainability
PUE, energy and water benchmarks. Used on /sustainability/.
- Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025uptimeinstitute.com
- IEA — Energy and AI (2025)iea.org
- European Data Centre Association — Energy Efficiency Directiveeudca.org
- Socomec — EU Energy Efficiency Directive guidance for data centresemea.socomec.com
- Mayer Brown — Singapore's Green Data Centre Roadmap (2024)mayerbrown.com
- OVHcloud sustainability press kit (citing industry average)corporate.ovhcloud.com
- Google Data Centers — Power usage effectivenessdatacenters.google
- Google 2025 Environmental Reportblog.google
- Meta 2024 Sustainability Report (summary)climateinsider.com
- Microsoft Cloud Blog — next-generation datacenters consume zero water for coolingmicrosoft.com
- Data Center Dynamics — Amazon: all our operations now run on renewable energydatacenterdynamics.com
- Amazon Sustainability — AWS Cloudsustainability.aboutamazon.com
- Equinix Sustainability Annual Reportequinix.com
- Data Center Knowledge — The truth about renewable energy in data centersdatacenterknowledge.com
Incident log
Reported data center outages and their causes. Used on /incidents/.
- Google Cloud Service Health — incident summarystatus.cloud.google.com
- Microsoft 365 Status (official) — incident updatex.com
- GitHub — Official incident thread, August 17, 2026 outagegithub.com
- Cloudflare Status — Incident Historycloudflarestatus.com
- Engadget — Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failureengadget.com
- MPR News — Outage at Minneapolis data center behind last week's telecommunications disruptionsmprnews.org
- IncidentHub — AWS us-west-2 outage analysisblog.incidenthub.cloud
- Microsoft Azure Status History (tracking ID ZJV6-SGG)azure.status.microsoft
- Data Center Knowledge — Fault in Data Center Alley triggered 3 GW load drop on PJMdatacenterknowledge.com
- The Register — AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websitestheregister.com
- Data Center Dynamicsdatacenterdynamics.com
- Cloudflare Blogblog.cloudflare.com
- CNBCcnbc.com
- ThousandEyes outage analysisthousandeyes.com
Transactions & M&A
Deal announcements and trade-press coverage behind the M&A tracker; per-deal attribution is in the CSV. Used on /transactions/.
- DCD — Biggest data center acquisitionsdatacenterdynamics.com
- Blackstone — Behind the deal: AirTrunkblackstone.com
- Synergy Research — 2024 record M&Asrgresearch.com
- CNBC — KKR and Singtel to take full ownership of STT GDCcnbc.com
- Data Centre Magazine — Top 10 data centre M&As 2026datacentremagazine.com
- New Market Pitch — Data Center Market Update Q1 2026newmarketpitch.com
- dataXconnect — Data centre M&A insightsdataxconnect.com
- SK Telecom (PR Newswire) — SK Telecom Launches AI Data Center Infrastructure Company 'SK Horizon'prnewswire.com
- w.media — SK Telecom launches AI DC infrastructure company SK Horizonw.media
Price history (seed data)
Published indices used to seed the time series before our own collection began in August 2026. Used on /history/.
- Silicon Data H100 Rental Price Indexsilicondata.com
- SemiAnalysis — GPU rental capacity and pricingnewsletter.semianalysis.com
- Introl — GPU cloud price collapse, Dec 2025introl.com
- CBRE North America Data Center Trends H2 2025cbre.com
- JLL Data Center Outlookjll.com
Tier and rating certifications
Public registries of issued certificates, used to verify what operators claim about tier levels. Used on /tiers/.
- Uptime Institute — issued Tier Certificationsuptimeinstitute.com
- EPI — ANSI/TIA-942 certified sitesepi-certification.com
- TIA — TIA-942 certifications and ratingstiaonline.org
Salary data
US medians by occupation, Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (May 2024). Used on /jobs/salaries/.
Policy
Numbers are published only when the source has published them; where a figure is not public we show nothing rather than an estimate. Our own compiled series are licensed CC BY 4.0; third-party figures listed here are cited, not licensed by us.