Cobalt Data Centers

A West Coast enterprise looking for a continuity site used to see Las Vegas as a practical compromise: close enough to California for executives, carriers and vendors, far enough from coastal earthquake and wildfire clusters, and dense enough with power and fiber to keep production systems reachable. Cobalt Data Centers tried to turn that geography into a colocation business with 5.5 MW of critical power, more than 450 cabinets, a $25 million to $30 million Cheyenne retrofit and a planned 10 MW Sahara follow-on. Its story shows why the desert disaster-recovery pitch can be compelling, and why the real price is set by power, heat, water, carrier dependence, customer concentration and local market power.