Carrier Hotels Are Rarely Designed. They Emerge

Carrier hotels are often treated as intentional products. In practice, most are accidental outcomes.

This report traces how early infrastructure decisions create path dependency, why certain sites accumulate connectivity over time, and how colocation facilities evolve into interconnection hubs without being planned that way. It explains why most facilities will never become carrier hotels, why forcing that outcome usually fails, and how to recognize when network gravity is genuinely forming versus when it is merely assumed.

If you’ve ever treated connectivity as something that can simply be engineered or marketed into existence, this report explains why that approach breaks down.