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Who is Switch?
Switch is a technology infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates large-scale colocation data centers and digital campus ecosystems for enterprises, cloud providers, and public-sector organizations.
- Hyperscale and enterprise colocation data center campuses
- Power, cooling, and physical security infrastructure for mission-critical IT workloads
- Interconnection and network ecosystem services across carrier, cloud, and content providers (network and connectivity)
- Data center design, construction, and facility operations services
- Sustainability-focused power sourcing and energy management for DCO
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More About Switch
Switch focuses on colocation data center infrastructure for organizations that require controlled environments for servers, storage systems, and networking equipment. Its facilities are designed to support enterprise IT workloads, public cloud on-ramps, content delivery platforms, and institutional applications that require specific availability and security characteristics. Customers typically deploy equipment within Switch data centers and connect to multiple carriers, cloud providers, and partner networks, using the campuses as core nodes in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
The company’s offerings align with core categories such as colocation services, data center infrastructure (power, cooling, physical space), and network interconnection (connectivity). Switch designs its campuses with redundancies in power distribution, cooling systems, and network paths to support continuity for critical applications. Facilities generally provide raised floor or equivalent technical space, uninterruptible power supplies, backup generation, and structured cabling systems that accommodate dense compute, storage, and networking hardware deployments.
From an architectural perspective, Switch data centers function as neutral hubs where enterprises can interconnect with carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISP), cloud platforms, and partner ecosystems. This supports common enterprise patterns, such as placing private infrastructure in close proximity to public cloud regions for low-latency connectivity, or using the data center as a consolidation point for regional Wide Area Network (WAN) and internet egress. Standard data center networking technologies, including Ethernet, IP routing, and optical transport, are used to provide cross-connects and metro or long-haul connectivity among campuses and external sites.
Switch also emphasizes sustainability and power strategy as part of its offering, including energy sourcing and efficiency practices for its campuses. This is relevant for enterprises that measure DCO against environmental and energy objectives while planning long-term capacity. By contracting with Switch, customers outsource facility design, construction, and maintenance, and focus their internal teams on managing logical infrastructure layers such as virtualization, containers, storage services, and application platforms running on hardware deployed within the colocation footprint.
In the context of an enterprise technology directory, Switch fits into categories such as colocation data centers, data center facilities management, and network interconnection hubs. Its campuses are used by organizations that want dedicated or shared physical environments with controlled access, while still retaining choice of hardware vendors, network providers, and cloud services. This role in the infrastructure stack places Switch alongside other colocation and interconnection providers, serving as the physical foundation upon which higher-level IT, cloud, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services operate.
Our description of Switch. Updated December 2025.
