How much does colocation cost in Los Angeles?
Recent quotes we received for California ran $350 to $400 per kW per month for up to 500 kW, falling to $220 to $260 above 1 MW. CBRE's published asking band for Southern California is $175 to $250 per kW per month for 250 kW and up.
| Deployment | Monthly rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 500 kW | $350 to $400/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 500 kW to 1 MW | $280 to $320/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 1 MW | $220 to $260/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| 250 kW and up, asking rent | $175 to $250/kW-mo | CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2026, first half of 2026 |
Smaller deployments cost more per kW. These are recent quotes we received, not a statement that space is available. Cross-connects, remote hands and one-time setup are extra. Operators often give 2–3 free months on a new term. See every region's quote ranges.
Los Angeles cabinet and cage prices
Smaller deployments are priced per cabinet or per cage rather than per kW. Use these monthly ranges to set a first-pass budget. They are not provider offers, and a building on this page is not a claim that space is available in it.
| Requirement | Monthly range | Power and bandwidth assumed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2U | $120 to $230/mo | 1 to 3 A at 120 V, 1 to 5 TB of transfer |
| Half cabinet, 24U | $855 to $1,045/mo | 2 to 3 kW, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps |
| Full cabinet, 48U | $1,225 to $1,805/mo | 2 to 5 kW, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps |
| High-density cabinet, 48U | $2,430 to $4,775/mo | 10 to 17 kW, three-phase |
| Private cage, 4 racks | $5,735 to $5,910/mo | 5 kW per rack, 1 Gbps |
| High-density private cage, 4 racks | $15,495 to $20,220/mo | 20 kW per rack, 1 Gbps |
Based on quotes we received in the 30 days before 21 October 2026. Taxes, cross-connects, remote hands and one-time costs are extra. Replace these ranges with a normalized written quote before approval. How power is billed is covered in how colocation power is billed.
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What providers in Los Angeles post as a list price
Most colocation in Los Angeles is quoted, not posted. The provider below is the exception: it publishes a monthly price on its own website, and every row links to that page. It is a smaller regional operator. The large operators here do not publish prices at all, so read these as a floor and a sanity check, not as what an enterprise contract lands at.
| Monthly | Provider | Offer | Power included | Per usable kW | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $799 | LinkSecured | Full cabinet, 42U. Los Angeles | 20A at 110V (1.76 kW usable) | $454 | 100 Mbps |
Each price was read on the provider's own page on the date shown. Usable kW is 80% of the circuit rating, with a redundant A+B pair counted once, and is only worked out where the provider states both amps and volts. "From" is the provider's own word for a starting price. Providers whose networks carry spam or abuse flags are left out whatever their price. A posted price is not availability, and bundles differ in bandwidth and power, so compare the whole row rather than the first column. How power is billed is covered in how colocation power is billed.
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Who is actually plugged in across Los Angeles
A building existing and a building being connected are different facts, and only one of them decides whether your traffic can get where it needs to go cheaply. These figures come from PeeringDB, which the network operators themselves maintain, so every row below links to the building's own public entry.
| Measure | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Buildings listed | 47 | Registered in PeeringDB across Los Angeles, by 28 operators |
| Buildings with a network present | 33 | 14 carry no network presence, which usually means single tenant or simply unregistered |
| Network presences | 965 | Counted per building, so a carrier in three buildings counts three times |
| Internet exchange presences | 37 | Where you can reach many networks through one port instead of many cross-connects |
| Carrier presences | 41 | The physical transport choice you can buy without leaving the building |
| In the densest building | 35% | CoreSite - Los Angeles (LA1) One Wilshire holds 335 of the market's network presences |
The most connected buildings here
| Networks | Building | Operator | Exchanges | Carriers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 335 | CoreSite - Los Angeles (LA1) One Wilshire | CoreSite | 5 | 9 |
| 203 | CoreSite - Los Angeles (LA2) | CoreSite | 3 | 7 |
| 137 | Equinix LA1 - Los Angeles | Equinix, Inc. | 7 | 9 |
| 61 | Equinix LA3/LA4 - Los Angeles, El Segundo | Equinix, Inc. | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | Digital Realty LAX (600 W 7th) | Digital Realty | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | CoreSite - Los Angeles (LA3) | CoreSite | 2 | 1 |
| 16 | QuadraNet DTLA | QuadraNet Enterprises LLC | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Centersquare Los Angeles (LAX3) | Centersquare | 1 | 1 |
From PeeringDB, which is maintained by the network operators present in these buildings rather than by the landlords, which is what makes it worth more than a directory. Two limits. Entries are voluntary, so a building showing no networks may be single tenant or may simply never have registered. And a network being present says nothing about whether the building has space, power or a price for you: that is still a call.
Market profileOne Wilshire is still the reason this market exists
Los Angeles is a network market before it is a real estate market. One Wilshire is one of the most interconnected buildings on the planet and the landing point for trans-Pacific traffic, and the value of every other facility in the region is partly a function of how cheaply and how quickly it reaches that ecosystem.
That gives Los Angeles an unusual shape for a buyer. Twenty nine operators serve fifty seven buildings, which is a fragmented, competitive retail market by the standards of anywhere else we cover. What it is not is a market with spare capacity: two buildings are under construction and ten are planned, against forty five already running.
In Ashburn or Dallas you negotiate megawatts and the network follows. In Los Angeles you are buying a position in a network ecosystem, and the power is the constraint you work around. Price the cross-connects and the transit before you celebrate the rate per kW, because that is where the money actually goes.
What has been announced in Los Angeles
Announcements are not filings. Nobody has to build what they announce, the figure is the one the developer chose to publish, and the date moves. They are here because megawatts are what a requirement is measured in, and because the size of what is coming changes who will take your call. Every figure below links to a published report that states it, and was checked against at least one other independent report before it was written down.
| Capacity | Operator | Project | What was announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 MW | Goodman Group | LAX01, Vernon | 5.6 acres on the former Farmer John site, three stories, four miles from One Wilshire. Announced IT capacity |
| 32 MW | Digital Realty | Pacific Boulevard, Vernon | A 5.4 acre site bought for conversion, currently a 253,200 SF industrial building |
Both announcements are 32 MW, both are in Vernon, and both are conversions of industrial buildings rather than new campuses. That is the Los Angeles pattern in a sentence: no land, expensive power, and growth that arrives by turning a warehouse into a data center within reach of One Wilshire.
Announced capacity is collected by hand from trade reporting and company statements, and each figure links to the report it came from. It is never added to a permit count: a permit is a document a jurisdiction issued, an announcement is a plan a company published. Neither is availability.
Growth arrives as a conversion, not a campus
There is no land here in any sense a data center developer would recognize, and there is no cheap power. So the market grows by turning existing industrial buildings into data centers within reach of the interconnection core. Vernon, four miles from downtown, has taken two separate thirty two megawatt projects on former industrial sites, one of them a meat-packing plant.
Conversions carry their own diligence list, and it is not the same list as a new build. Floor loading, ceiling height, column spacing and the route power takes into the building all constrain what the operator can actually deliver, and those constraints frequently show up as a hall that cannot take your rack density rather than as a headline.
Every Los Angeles facility we track
57 data centers across Los Angeles, from our verified inventory. It is the layer that says whether a building exists yet, which no permit record answers directly.
| Status | Facilities | What it means for a search |
|---|---|---|
| Operational | 45 | Standing and running. The only layer that can hold a requirement this year |
| Under construction | 2 | Steel is up. Reachable for a date 6 to 18 months out, and usually pre-leasing now |
| Planned | 10 | Announced or entitled, not yet built. Treat every date on these as a forecast |
| Building area on file | 13,822,838 SF | Across the 46 facilities where a size is recorded, of 57 |
| Largest single building | 733,000 SF | ColoCrossing, Los Angeles |
Operators with the most facilities here: Digital Realty (6), CoreSite (5), Csquare (5), Equinix (5), Evocative (4), DataBank (3), Goodman (3), DigiCo REIT (2), Hivelocity (2), QuadraNet (2).
Where they cluster: Los Angeles (29), El Segundo (6), Vernon (5), Irvine (4), Anaheim (2), Burbank (2).
The largest buildings coming to this market
12 facilities here are under construction or planned. These are the ten largest by floor area, and a size on file is not a promise of a delivery date.
| Operator | Status | Building size | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| GI Partners | Under Construction | 664,248 SF | Los Angeles, CA |
| Goodman | Planned | 283,836 SF | Vernon, CA |
| Goodman | Planned | 283,836 SF | Vernon, CA |
| Goodman | Under Construction | 263,409 SF | Vernon, CA |
| Eagle Mountain | Planned | 71,500 SF | Anaheim, CA |
| CoreSite | Planned | Not on file | Los Angeles, CA |
| DigiCo REIT | Planned | Not on file | Monterey Park, CA |
| DigiCo REIT | Planned | Not on file | Monterey Park, CA |
| Digital Realty | Planned | Not on file | Vernon, CA |
| Digital Realty | Planned | Not on file | Los Angeles, CA |
From our verified inventory rather than from a public record, so these rows carry no filing link and street addresses are held back. These buildings are verified, which is not the same as their space being available: every facility above may be full, pre-leased, or closed to your size. Finding out is a call, not a lookup. See what a verified building does and does not mean.
Where the market is, submarket by submarket
Downtown and One Wilshire
The interconnection core. Expensive per rack, unmatched for carrier and cloud choice, and the right answer when network reach is the requirement rather than capacity.
El Segundo
The established multi-tenant cluster near LAX and the subsea landing infrastructure. Real operator choice, and the most likely home for a mid-sized enterprise requirement.
Vernon and the industrial belt
Where the conversions are happening. Newer power, larger floorplates, and a short fiber run to downtown. This is where the next capacity comes from.
Irvine and Orange County
Technically a separate submarket and often the better answer for southern Orange County users. Cheaper, quieter, and a genuine latency difference from downtown.
Power, seismic and the questions that decide a Los Angeles shortlist
Southern California power is expensive, and the utility environment is more constrained than anywhere else we cover. That shows up as operators selling what they already have rather than what they could build, which makes the availability question sharper here than anywhere except Silicon Valley.
- Is there contracted power headroom in this specific building, or only in the operator's portfolio?
- What is the seismic design basis, and when was the building last assessed against current code?
- What does a cross-connect cost, what does it cost to add one later, and is the fee schedule contractual?
- If I need to reach One Wilshire from this building, whose fiber is that and what does it cost per month?
- For a conversion, what is the floor loading limit and the maximum rack density this hall supports today?
When Los Angeles is the right answer
Los Angeles fits when you serve Southern California users, when trans-Pacific reach matters, when your workload is network-heavy rather than compute-heavy, or when content delivery and media workflows put you close to the studios and the carriers. For a small, dense, interconnection-led requirement it is one of the best markets in the country.
It is the wrong answer when you need scale or cheap power. A multi-megawatt requirement will be quoted here, and it will be quoted at a number that makes Phoenix or Dallas-Fort Worth look like a rounding error. The usual answer for a Southern California business is a small interconnection footprint here and the bulk of the compute somewhere cheaper.
Split the requirement before you go to market. Ask Los Angeles operators to quote the network-facing piece and ask Phoenix to quote the rest, then compare the two-site total against the single-site Los Angeles number. That comparison usually decides itself.
We do not collect permit filings in Los Angeles. The facility figures above come from the licensed facility database described on our construction pipeline page, and the capacity figures are announcements rather than records. Nothing on this page is a claim about available space, which is not published anywhere and comes from an operator call.