Your AI advisor for data center deals.
Advisor asks only for what's still missing for your deal type, whether that's retail colocation, wholesale capacity or land, then saves an assessment you can share with our team.
What are you looking for, and where?
About 2 MW of colocation in Northern Virginia, live by Q4 next year.
That's a wholesale requirement. Do you need 2N, or is N+1 acceptable?
2N.
What is Advisor?
Advisor is Datacenters.ai's AI agent for data center site selection and deal evaluation. It evaluates retail colocation, wholesale colocation and land opportunities, and returns an assessment you can act on.
Each data center evaluation it runs works only from what you tell it and what its tools return. It never fills a gap with a guess.
- Evaluates
- Retail colocation, wholesale colocation, and land and real estate.
- Asks for
- Only what's still missing for that deal type, in plain language.
- Searches
- Published Datacenters.com listings, by place or by provider. Every provider it names comes with its link.
- Returns
- An assessment you can save as a document and share with our team. Land also gets a viability rating.
Retail vs wholesale colocation, and land, side by side.
Retail colocation is cabinets, cages and smaller deployments. Wholesale colocation is large power blocks and dedicated halls, at megawatt scale. Advisor runs a separate evaluation for each, and one for land, and asks only for what's still missing. Move to a different site or deal, and it starts a new one.
| Evaluation | Retail colocation | Wholesale colocation | Land and real estate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covers | Cabinets, cages and smaller deployments | Large power blocks and dedicated halls, at megawatt scale | Land to sell or develop, greenfield or brownfield |
| Asks for | How many cabinets or racks, the type of space, and your preferred locations | Total power in kW, kVA, MW or GW, rack types and quantities, and your preferred locations | Ownership, location, power access, fiber and financing |
| Also takes | Connectivity and timeline, if you have them | Connectivity, certifications, facility features, contract term and timeline, if you have them | A power purchase agreement, power capacity, parcel size, current use and timeline, if you have them |
| Returns | A colocation evaluation of your requirement | A wholesale colocation evaluation of your requirement | A viability rating of high, moderate or needs development, with what still needs attention |
How the data center site selection process works with Advisor.
One conversation, from what you're weighing to an assessment our team can take to providers.
- 01
Describe the opportunity
Say what you're weighing in plain language, from a few cabinets to a multi-megawatt requirement or land you want to sell or develop. Advisor picks the evaluation that fits.
- 02
Answer what's still missing
Advisor asks only for what that evaluation still needs: cabinet count and space type for retail, total power and rack types for wholesale, ownership and power access for land.
- 03
Save it and share it
Approve the assessment and save it as a document. Share it with our team from your signed-in account, and they take it to the providers behind it.
An assessment you can act on, and share when you're ready.
Land gets a viability rating with what's still missing, and colocation gets a complete set of requirements a provider can work from. Save the assessment you approve as a document.
Land rated high, moderate or needs development, with the reasons.
Advisor checks land for ownership, power access, fiber and financing. High means the first three are confirmed and nothing is outstanding. Moderate means they're confirmed but something, such as financing or a power purchase agreement, is still needed. Send an OM, flyer or broker email, and it writes a full site memo that ends with the diligence items to clear next.
- Ownership, power access, fiber and financing checked
- What still needs attention, listed
- A full site memo from your deal materials
Parcel under evaluationViability: moderateColocation requirements, complete before you talk to providers.
For retail or wholesale colocation, Advisor keeps asking until the requirement is complete: cabinet count or total power, space or rack types, and locations, plus connectivity and timeline when you have them. Approve it, and our team takes it to the providers.
- Asks only for what's still missing
- Saved as a document once you approve it
- Shared from your signed-in account, with no form to fill in
- Total power
- 2 MW
- Preferred locations
- Northern Virginia
- Rack types / space
- 40 × 42U cabinets (standard), 50 kW each
- Datacenter features
- 2N power
- Timeline
- Q4 next year
Where Advisor's answers come from.
Advisor names its sources, says what it doesn't know yet, and keeps your chats private.
Listings
Every provider and location Advisor names comes from a published Datacenters.com listing, with a link to it.
No guesses
When a detail is missing, Advisor asks for it or lists it as still needed in the assessment. It never fills the gap itself.
Privacy
Each chat is yours. It starts private, and only you can open it unless you choose to share it.
Advisor, answered
What it evaluates, what it asks for, where its answers come from, and when a person steps in.
What does Advisor evaluate?
Retail colocation, wholesale colocation, and land or real estate for data center development. It runs one evaluation per opportunity, and starts a new one when you move to a different site or deal.
What does Advisor ask for?
Only what's still missing for your deal type. For retail colocation, how many cabinets or racks, the type of space and where. For wholesale, total power in kW, kVA, MW or GW, rack types and quantities, and where. For land, ownership, location, power access, fiber and financing.
Where do Advisor's providers and locations come from?
Only from published Datacenters.com listings, searched by place or by provider. Every provider it names comes with its Datacenters.com link, and the names and counts come only from those results.
Does Advisor price colocation?
No. Advisor evaluates the opportunity and the requirement. Pricing is Provider Direct's job, and its prices come directly from Digital Realty.
Are my chats private?
Yes. A new chat is private to your account. No one else can open it unless you choose to share it. When you share requirements with our team or a provider, a chat may be reviewed to help ensure we provide the service you were expecting.
What if I need to talk to a person?
When an answer needs a conversation, Advisor shares your brief with our team from your signed-in account, and they connect you with the provider, landowner or utility behind it. There's no contact form to fill in.
Plans that scale with how much you use Advisor.
Pick the tier that fits how often you source capacity.
Make a decision. Meet the provider.
Datacenters.ai brings colocation, wholesale and land decisions into one chat: Advisor evaluates the opportunity, Provider Direct prices it, and the Datacenters.com directory and alliance connect you with the provider.