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Detroit, Michigan · DC1

Detroit dedicated servers, in a building we can show you

Seven bare-metal machines racked in a carrier-dense Michigan facility. Every figure on this page comes from the site’s own technical specification, not a brochure.

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Handed over with root access and the operating system you choose.

Detroit, Michigan

Inside the building your server lives in

Everything below is the facility itself, not a marketing summary of it. If a number matters to your compliance team or your architecture, it is here.

136,000sq ft building, 80,000 colocated
16 MWavailable utility power, DTE
N+1power and cooling redundancy
1 Tbpsupstream, 22 carriers on site
How power reaches your server Two independent utilities, DTE electricity and Consumers gas, feed a substation and gas microturbines. Five two-megawatt Caterpillar diesel generators with 48 hours of on-site fuel back them up. Automatic transfer switching and paralleling switchgear feed the UPS layer and the cooling plant, which serve the data floor. UTILITY GENERATION TRANSFER CONDITIONING FLOOR DTEelectricity Consumersnatural gas Substation16 MW available Microturbinesgas fired 5 × 2 MW diesel Caterpillar, 10 MW total 48 h fuel on site ATS + PSG automatic transfer, paralleling switchgear UPS Toshiba 9000s, 10 min Cooling Kyoto wheel, 500 t/floor Yourserver
Two independent utilities, gas microturbines and 10 MW of diesel behind 48 hours of on-site fuel. Every stage is N+1 and remotely monitored.

Power

Utility
DTE electricity and Consumers gas, 16 MW available utility power
Generators
5 × 2 MW Caterpillar diesel, 10 MW total, plus gas microturbines
Fuel on site
48 hours of diesel, under a priority fuel agreement
Transfer
Automatic transfer switching and paralleling switchgear
UPS
Toshiba 9000s, 500 kVA × 8
Batteries
GNB lead-acid, 10 minutes at full load
Options
120 VAC, 208 VAC, 3-phase, −48 VDC
Redundancy
N+1, with harmonic filters and remote monitoring

Cooling

Type
Kyoto wheel and chilled water
Capacity
500 tons per floor
Airflow
Hot aisle / cold aisle containment, hot air recycled upward
Redundancy
N+1

Fire protection

Suppression
Dry pipe pre-action, 27 zones
Detection
VESDA smoke and heat
Monitoring
Remote, continuous

The building

Completed
2015, seven floors
Structure
Structural steel and reinforced concrete, concrete and glass exterior
Floor
Slab, 150 psf load, 11 ft ceiling clearance
Flood plain
No
Entrance vaults
5
Smart hands
24/7/365, 15 minute response time

Physical security

CCTV
Exterior and interior, recordings kept up to 52 months
Card access
Multi-factor authentication
Access control
Keypad entry to site, electronic badge points
Monitoring
Continuous video surveillance

Audits and compliance

The facility is independently audited. What each one means for you:

SOC 2 Type II
SOC 3
Independently audited controls for security, availability and privacy
HIPAA
Safeguards healthcare providers need for patient information
PCI-DSS
Controls required where card data is handled
SSAE-18
Controls relevant to financial reporting

Ten carriers, not one

The network out of the building

Traffic leaves on more than one Tier-1 provider, with direct peering at DET-iX, the Detroit Internet Exchange, plus Equinix Chicago and Equinix Ashburn. A single carrier having a bad day does not become your outage.

  • Lumen
  • Cogent
  • GTT
  • Hurricane Electric
  • NTT
  • Tata
  • Arelion
  • Zayo
Upstream and peering detail, with AS numbers
LumenAS209Chicago, IL
CogentAS174Southfield, MI
GTTAS3257Southfield, MI
Hurricane ElectricAS6939Southfield, MI
LumenAS3356Southfield, MI
NTT CommunicationsAS2914Chicago, IL
Tata CommunicationsAS6453Ashburn, VA
ArelionAS1299Southfield, MI
ZayoAS6461Southfield, MI

Peering points: DET-iX (Detroit, MI), Equinix Chicago (Chicago, IL), Equinix Ashburn (Ashburn, VA).

This is what we sell here

Seven machines racked in this building

Bare metal from $104.25/month, handed over with full root access, a /30 IPv4 block and the operating system you choose. For lighter workloads a VPS runs from the same facility, on the same network.

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Straight answers

About the facility.

Where it is, who audits it, how it stays powered and cooled, and how you rent a machine inside it.

Metro Detroit, Michigan, in an 80,000 sq ft carrier-dense facility. Michigan sits far enough inland to be out of the hurricane and wildfire corridors, and central enough that neither coast pays a latency penalty for the other.

SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and SSAE-18. Physical security is multi-factor badge access, keypad entry to site, and interior and exterior CCTV retained for up to 52 months. If your auditor needs a specific control documented, ask us and we will get what the facility can share.

16 MW of available utility power from DTE, Toshiba 9000s UPS units on GNB lead-acid batteries that carry the load for 10 minutes at full draw, and five 2 MW Caterpillar diesel generators behind a priority fuel agreement. Power and cooling are both N+1, with harmonic filters and remote monitoring throughout.

Kyoto wheel and chilled water, 500 tons per floor, in hot aisle / cold aisle containment, at N+1. Fire suppression is dry pipe pre-action across 27 zones with VESDA smoke and heat detection, monitored remotely. Dry pipe matters: the pipes are empty until a fire is confirmed, so a burst line does not soak your racks.

Nine upstream paths: Lumen on two of them, plus Cogent, GTT, Hurricane Electric, NTT, Tata, Arelion and Zayo. Peering is direct at DET-iX, the Detroit Internet Exchange, plus Equinix Chicago and Equinix Ashburn. Full AS numbers and handoff locations are listed in the network section above.

Yes, that is what we sell. Seven bare-metal machines are racked here and available, handed over with root access and the operating system you choose. Colocation is not something we offer, so if you are looking to bring your own hardware this is not the right facility for you.