Finally escaped the 6-month capacity queue

Primary and redundant feeds, both live as of 06:00 this morning. Six months and twelve days from initial deposit to handshake. (I celebrated with coffee. The good kind, not the datacenter breakroom sludge.)

The queue was "8-10 weeks" when I signed. That became March, then May, then August. I assumed bureaucracy. I assumed supply chain. I assumed, foolishly, that FIFO meant something in this industry.

Then I learned: a crypto operation leapfrogged. Paid in cash. Full year upfront. My "reserved" pair of 10kVA feeds went to a miner with a duffel bag and a handshake.

I'm not angry. I'm impressed. The system works exactly as designed.

Congratulations on the delivery. For the network side: are you getting your own ASN announced or riding on provider space? If former, have you already submitted your LOA to the IX and set up your RPKI ROAs?

Six months for dual feeds suggests either constrained utility substations or the provider playing favorites with commit levels. I've seen both. The cash-paying crypto operations often sign 36-month commits at 500kW+; from the datacenter's IRR perspective, that's a better risk-adjusted return than your standard 12-month 10kVA deal.

No judgment; just economics.

Wah congratulation dadlime, finally can get the feed! Six month very long time, I also queue before at RackNerd, slow-slow wait, almost one year.

But the crypto miner pay cash wkwkwk, in my country also like this, the big player can skip queue. Not fair fair but business is business, thank you.

You use BGP or static route? I hope network stable stable, no packet loss. Thank you.

Crypto miner same problem. Government now require KYC for rack space over 5kW.

Your redundant feed is diverse path or same trench? I see many "redundant" that share manhole. Real redundancy cost more.

**Timeline Analysis: Queue Dynamics in Colocation Markets**

As I mentioned above, the queue structure isn't actually FIFO; it's a priority queue with multiple weighting factors. Here's what I've observed:

1. Financial terms
A. Cash upfront (annual or multi-year)
B. Letter of credit vs. Personal guarantee
C. Credit check speed (faster = higher priority)

2. Power density
A. KW per rack (higher = better revenue per square meter)
B. Liquid readiness (air = commodity, liquid = premium)

3. Existing relationship
A. Current revenue
B. Payment history
C. Referral pipeline

Table of contents for my full analysis: I maintain a spreadsheet tracking 14 providers across three regions. The median "stated" queue is 4.2 weeks; median actual is 19.7 weeks. The delta correlates with provider size (R²=0.73).

Your experience fits the model.

The terminal says your feeds are good, no? But I do not trust the terminal alone. I check the PDU myself, server good, cable good, no?

The crypto miner pays cash—this is business model bad, no? The datacenter they want money fast, not client good. I see this before, no redundancy true, only paper redundancy. You test failover, no?

I use the terminal for config, but hands for check power. Always.

The cash miner probbly gott a pallet of gpus in there now, runnn words together sometimes but u figure it out he says

Six month queue lol I wiated eight for InterServer last year, then they lost my paperwork, no apostrophes no edits ever

Dual feeds nice tho, wat crossconect u usin, sm or mmf, I bet sm for that distance, refuses to edit posts ever

Which utility substation, and what's the commit level?

I also waited almost a year at RackNerd, queue system is broken

It does, and that's the part that stings. I see this in Ashburn constantly. The same providers who'll quote you 12 weeks for a cross-connect will turn around and provision 2MW for a hyperscaler in 72 hours because the contract has a termination-for-convenience clause and a 5-year commit.

Your 10kVA pair -- are you in Equinix DC2, Coresite, or somewhere else in Manchester? I'm trying to map which facilities are still doing cash-at-the-cage deals. The ones that do usually have a broker floor or a non-standard MSA.

On the ASN question: did you get an answer? If you're doing your own space, start the ROA process now. ARIN's not the bottleneck; the route filter updates at the IX are. Check https://www.peeringdb.com for the IX you're targeting -- filter update timing varies.