Every category where a model named DataBank for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Colocation providers	Cloud and infrastructure	10%	5 of 78	0%	15	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DataBank yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated DataBank across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	3	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct16 labels4

Paraphrase7 labels3

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Start with DataBank or Digital Realty for a balance of price, performance, and reliability.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd start with DataBank, in the metro closest to your users and IT staff.” GPT-6 Luna · Colocation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“DataBank and TierPoint shine for mid-market value/compliance” Grok 4.1 Fast · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“Equinix and DataBank are frequently cited as top choices” Mistral Small · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DataBank, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DataBank was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Equinix29 of 377Compare →

CoreSite25 of 371Compare →

Digital Realty21 of 372Compare →

Flexential18 of 375Compare →

TierPoint14 of 376Compare →

CyrusOne12 of 370Not among the top eight

NTT Global Data Centers9 of 370Not among the top eight

Cologix6 of 370Not among the top eight

Iron Mountain Data Centers6 of 370Not among the top eight

QTS6 of 370Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named DataBank. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 37 answers that named DataBank and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

quotecolo.com26

feeds.sabertoothpro.com21

guideflow.com19

metrocoloadvisory.com16

databank.comYour site15

techradar.com14

sourceforge.net13

dgtlinfra.com11

slashdot.org10

encoradvisors.com9

139 of the 154 domain citations in answers naming DataBank came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

quotecolo.com/colocation-providers24

feeds.sabertoothpro.com/blog/best-colocation-service-provider-usa21

guideflow.com/blog/colocation-services19

techradar.com/news/best-colocation-hosting14

metrocoloadvisory.com/provider-comparison12

dgtlinfra.com/top-10-colocation-providers10

sites.google.com/view/alexsarchives/best-colocation-providers-of-2026-secure-fast-and-scal9

encoradvisors.com/best-colocation-data-center8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

databank.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, DataBank takes 10% of first choices and TierPoint takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “colocation provider”

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not in the top ten

Position for “colocation providers”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“databank”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 782 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 53,845 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 6,569 · 476 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,058
Paid Google search: 5 searches its ads show for, about 71 clicks and $604 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 112 text, 8 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2022, as DataBank Holdings Ltd., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 54 in the year, 66 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

10%

rank 5 of 78 in colocation

Segment leader

22%

TierPoint

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 37 answers
Its own site cited: in 36 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on databank.com

3,671

subdomains included

Content

2,434

counted in the table below

Documentation

751

Product · Integration

255 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	1,366	8	2026-09-24	Colocation, Cloud hosting
News or press	455	14	2026-10-01	Colocation
Podcast or video	200	13	2026-09-30	Colocation
Glossary or explainer	177	0	2026-03-13	Object storage, SD-WAN
Conference or event	108	2	2026-08-13
Comparison	62	1	2026-08-02	Cloud hosting
Report or ebook	31	2	2026-10-01
Webinar or virtual event	22	0	2026-04-24
Template or tool	7	1	2026-08-04
Case study	6	0	2026-05-06

Most recent

2026-10-01Databank acquires building housing msp2 data center in minneapolis news or press
2026-10-01The business value of interconnection in colocation report or ebook
2026-09-30Why strong infrastructure partnerships matter podcast or video
2026-09-25Behind your digital life podcast or video
2026-09-24The truth about data centers why transmission is the real grid challenge blog
2026-09-23Investing in community supporting the carver food enterprise in culpeper blog

Events in person

Last twelve months

September 15, 2026 to September 17, 2026Meet with DataBank at AI Infra Summit 2026place not stated · exhibited
September 1, 2026 to September 3, 2026Meet with DataBank at Datacloud x Metro Connect Fall 2026place not stated · attended

As the event pages on databank.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page databank.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as DataBank

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as DataBank; a claim can dispute any of them.

QTS / DataBank (ITC) 1

Follow DataBank

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

DataBank is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: DataBank delivers colocation, cloud, and network infrastructure across 70+ data centers, backed by security, scale, and support.
databank.com
For: enterprises, technology developers, and content providers
databank.com
Certifications: FedRAMPFISMASSAE21HIPAAPCI-DSSEU-U.S Data Privacy FrameworksGreat Place to Work CertificationCMMC Certified
Hosting: UsaUnited KingdomWestCentralSouthEastEurope
Customers named: Penguin SolutionsMerchants and Marine BankNJITUniversity of MarylandBoost MobileThe New Jewish HomeRhodian GroupSeaglass Technology Partners
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations

What DataBank's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: databank.com, trust.databank.com, databank.com/solutions. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when DataBank's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as DataBank, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DataBank by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DataBank is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name DataBank, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.