Switch

Switch builds the data centers the industry measures itself against: vast campuses in Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and Texas, engineered to its own exacting resilience standard, run entirely on renewable power, and designed from the ground up for power densities most facilities cannot touch. That last point has become the headline, because racks of AI hardware draw several times the power of traditional enterprise gear, and Switch was built for that world years before it arrived. The fit is any workload where the requirement is genuinely hard: downtime that is unacceptable rather than inconvenient, density that ordinary facilities decline to quote, or sustainability commitments that get audited rather than advertised. Its campus scale also means room to grow that constrained urban facilities cannot offer, which matters in a market where capacity is scarce. The honest tradeoffs: the footprint is a small number of very large campuses, so proximity depends entirely on your geography; the engineering is priced like the engineering it is; and a business that wants two cabinets close to the office is shopping a different list. Pricing runs per kilowatt by density and resilience tier, quote based, and it is most competitive precisely when the requirement is dense or critical, which is when benchmarking it against the field matters most.