Edge Colocation: Put Your Data Within Milliseconds of Your Users
Edge traffic is booming, and the numbers don’t lie. Global edge data center revenue is projected to jump from $7.2 billion in 2021 to $19.1 billion by 2026, with edge servers expected to handle half of all telecom workloads by the same year. In a world where every millisecond counts, legacy infrastructure just can’t keep up.
Why “Good Enough” Data Centers Are No Longer Good Enough
Edge hungry apps, AI models, and IoT sensors will push the edge data center market past $317 billion by 2026; that’s more than double its 2020 size. Yet most facilities serving that demand still live inside 1990s warehouses that were never meant to power 20 kW-plus racks or route traffic locally. Three cracks are already showing:
- Latency kills revenue. Just 100 milliseconds of delay can reduce online conversions by 7 percent. When data has to travel across the country or even farther, it slows down interactive services like gaming, fintech, AI, and streaming.
- Inefficiency drains budgets. The global average PUE is 1.56, meaning nearly half of all energy never reaches your IT hardware. Retrofitted cooling paths and mismatched power trains keep that number stubbornly high.
- Power Density Is Maxed Out. Modern AI and GPU-driven workloads require 30 to 100 kW per rack, but retrofitted data centers often top out at 4 to 6 kW. That leads to scattered deployments, higher costs, and wasted space.
Compare HostDime to Legacy Operators
Our edge colocation data centers are not conversions or upgrades. They are purpose-built, Tier IV facilities created to meet the demands of today and tomorrow. From design to deployment, everything is built to perform at the highest level.
| HostDime Purpose-Built Tier IV Edge Campus | Typical Retrofitted Warehouse |
|---|---|
| Built from the ground up for modern power, cooling, and interconnection | Infrastructure shoe-horned into 1990s shells |
| Tier IV, 2 N + 1 redundancy; < 26 minutes downtime per year | Mostly Tier II–III, single power path |
| PUE around 1.3 thanks to hot-aisle containment and high-efficiency chillers | PUE 1.9 + common, higher OPEX |
| A/B power to every rack; 20 kW standard, up to 100 kW for AI/HPC | 4–6 kW typical, rarely > 30 kW |
| On-site IXPs & carrier-neutral meet-me rooms; 4-6 diverse fiber entrances | Single incumbent carrier, traffic boomerangs offshore |
| Client-centric amenities: staging rooms, co-working suites, 100G Internet | Limited desks, no continuity spaces |
Reserve Your Edge Colocation Space Now
We don’t lease space from others. We own and operate our edge data centers from the ground up, giving us full control over performance, uptime, and service. Our locations are chosen carefully to reduce latency and keep workloads local, closer to users and markets. Less than 1 percent of the world’s data centers are Tier IV. HostDime builds nothing else.
Be part of the next generation of digital infrastructure. Bring your workloads home to the edge. Reserve your rack or private suite before the Orlando grand opening in late 2025!