Point layer · Fiber & Network
Internet exchange points and carrier hotels
Internet exchange points and carrier hotels — where latency is actually decided.
Latency is a function of distance to where networks meet, so internet exchange points bound what a site can promise before a single cable is pulled. Each facility here is sized by how many networks are actually present, not by floor area.
- Source
- PeeringDB
- Refresh
- Weekly
- Geometry
- Point
- Included from
- Water + Power + Fiber ($299/mo)
Why IXPs & Carrier Hotels matters
Land, power and water can all be cheap somewhere that is three hundred fiber miles from the nearest exchange — and for inference serving, trading or anything interactive, that distance is disqualifying regardless of the other economics. Training and batch workloads tolerate it. Knowing which one you are siting for changes the entire search.
Questions IXPs & Carrier Hotels answers
- How far is this site from meaningful peering?
- Which exchange would a circuit from here terminate at?
- Is a low-latency workload viable at this location, or only a batch one?
What is in the IXPs & Carrier Hotels data
Coverage: Western US exchanges and carrier facilities. Source dataset: Internet exchange points and colocation facilities.
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Facility name | Exchange or carrier hotel as listed. |
| Participant count | Networks present at the exchange, a direct proxy for how useful peering there will be. |
| Operator | Who runs the exchange or facility. |
| Metro | The metropolitan market the facility anchors. |
How we serve IXPs & Carrier Hotels
Exchanges carry the reserved network color alongside fiber availability, and participant count drives prominence so a major exchange is visually distinct from a small regional one.
Internet exchange points — source, refresh and coverage
- Steward
- PeeringDB
- Dataset
- Internet exchange points and colocation facilities
- Refresh cadence
- Weekly
- Coverage
- Western US exchanges and carrier facilities
- Records
- 1,355 rows
- Geometry
- Point
- Included from
- Water + Power + Fiber ($299/mo/mo)
Who uses IXPs & Carrier Hotels
Read IXPs & Carrier Hotels alongside
Fiber Availability
Provider count and top speed by area — is this site connected or stranded?
Substations
Where you can actually connect — with max voltage on every point.
Transmission Lines
High-voltage routes — the constraint that decides most data-center sites.
Site Score Grid
Every layer above, resolved to one scored hex you can rank and defend.
Terms used on this page
See IXPs & Carrier Hotels on the map
This layer is included from Water + Power + Fiber ($299/mo) upward, alongside every other layer in the Water + Power + Fiber coverage.