06/26/2026
Colocation used to sell on three things: space, power, and cooling.
That's no longer enough. Enterprise tenants now show up with a different checklist — rack-level power data, exportable PUE, API access to it all.
GPU tenants make the gap worse. A standard rack draws 8-12kW steady. A GPU cluster can spike to 40-80kW and change minute to minute. Monitoring built for stable workloads doesn't hold up.
The colos managing this well treat monitoring as a customer-facing capability, not a back-office function.
Read the full blog: https://modius.com/blog/colo-customers-dont-just-want-uptime-anymore-they-want-real-time-data/