San Jose has 4 data centers listed on DataColoc, operated notably by Critical Colocation, Rack Lodge Data Center, CRIX, Navégalo. Compare colocation (rack, half-rack, 1U), pricing, certifications and connectivity, then get an instant costed estimate.
Server colocation in San Jose (server housing) means installing your own servers in a rack or cabinet (42U) inside a secure data center: redundant power, cooling, 24/7 security and multi-carrier connectivity. DataColoc lists 4 data centers offering colocation in San Jose, including Critical Colocation, Rack Lodge Data Center, CRIX, Navégalo.
a full rack is priced on electrical power (kVA), IP transit and cross-connects. Compare the 4 data centers in San Jose to get a costed quote.
None: “housing” and “colocation” mean the same thing — hosting your own servers in a third-party data center, as opposed to renting a dedicated server or public cloud.
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Learn the basics: colocation, 42U rack, cross-connect, IP transit, Tier III/IV.
Costed answers: how much does a rack cost?, cross-connect pricing, colocation or cloud? — and the colocation price barometer.
Beyond listed prices, here is the computed cost of a standard 5 kW rack in San Jose, from our open market model (published method, version 2026.07-v1):
| Item | Estimate |
|---|---|
| 5 kW rack, per month | €857 – €1,350 |
| Cost per kW per month | €151 – €243 |
| Over 3 years (36 months) | €30,852 – €48,600 |
What this covers: local industrial energy tariff, site efficiency (PUE), retail colocation margin and local market tightness. What it does not: IP transit, cross-connects, setup fees and PDUs — priced site by site in the comparator.
An estimate, not an offer. It is a model, with an open method and a version — not a contractual rate. A quote prices your actual configuration. Think the model is wrong? The method is published: tell us where.
Compare data centers in San Jose →San Jose has 4 data centers, operated by Critical Colocation, Rack Lodge Data Center, CRIX, Navégalo.
4 networks are listed at the sites in San Jose according to public interconnection registries. That number drives your negotiating power: every carrier inside the building is one more quote, with no civil works. The large networks reachable directly from these sites, without buying transit, are Akamai, Cloudflare: they are present at the exchange point where one site in the city is a point of presence. Reaching your cloud over an exchange point rather than the public Internet changes latency, and above all the price of data egress.
A city has no electricity of its own: the sites in San Jose are connected to the national grid, itself interconnected with its neighbours. What is measured, and what decides, is therefore the country's generation mix. That grid draws 74.8% of its electricity from hydro (2025). The detail: hydro 74.8%, wind 12.1%, geothermal and other renewables 11.9%, solar 0.7%, bioenergy 0.5%. Fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) account for 0% of it. A kilowatt-hour there weighs 24 g of CO2, i.e. 19.1 times less than the world average (458 g), 2025 figure. Concretely: a 3 kVA rack, in a site with a PUE of 1.5, draws 35,478 kWh a year and therefore emits 0.9 tonnes of CO2 a year here. The same rack, same hardware, same PUE, would emit 16 tonnes on a world-average grid. The building has nothing to do with it: the country does.
Source: Ember / Energy Institute via Our World in Data, retrieved 2026-09-14. A site under a direct renewable purchase agreement may show a different balance: that is for the operator to declare.
Since 1970, 79 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or above have been recorded within 100 km of San Jose, and 189 within 200 km. The strongest: magnitude 7.6 in 1991, 113 km away. This record covers 56 years, which is short on a seismic timescale: no recorded earthquake does not mean no hazard. It does not replace the statutory zoning, which alone binds construction.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, ANSS ComCat, retrieved 2026-09-14. Measured from the median coordinates of the city's sites.
No Internet exchange point is listed here: traffic will run over transit bought from a carrier, which is billed by bandwidth. No rate is published by the operators in this city: pricing is on request, and we do not estimate it on their behalf.
The nearest site outside San Jose is 2 km away, in Sabana Sur. Short distances matter: they drive the cost of a link between two buildings, and whether a backup site is workable.