Sponsorship · 2026

Sponsor the pages
where data center decisions get made.

Two placements, both measured. A sponsored module on the facility and market pages buyers land on mid-decision, and a labelled sponsor block on the surfaces AI engines fetch and cite. Every figure on this page names its source, and you get Search Console read access before you sign anything.

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What you are actually buying · every figure names its source

1,224
Qualified sessions / 28d
Google Search Console · property total · 2026-07-30 → 2026-08-26 · read access granted to buyers on request
77.6%
On desktop, at work
Google Search Console · device split, same window · desktop 950 / mobile 268
7,292
Pages with proven demand
Google Search Console · page-level, same window · pages at 10+ verified impressions (21,672 have at least one)
Facilities tracked
Live from /api/v1/audience/summary on every page load · public and keyless · curl it during the call
283,912
Category share of voice / 28d
Google Search Console · impressions, property total · 2026-07-30 → 2026-08-26

This is not the audience number.

It counts how often a DC Hub page appeared in a Google results page over 28 days — how much of the category's search surface we hold. It is not how many people arrived, and it is not what your placement is priced against. The number your placement is priced against is in the panel above, and it is much smaller.

Which AI engines actually fetch this site.

Not a vendor logo wall. This is our own Cloudflare edge log, counted by user agent. Bars scale to Googlebot; AI-engine crawlers are highlighted.

Googlebot
5,721/day
100%
OAI-SearchBot
562/day
9.8%
GPTBot
227/day
4.0%
bingbot
154/day
2.7%
PerplexityBot
136/day
2.4%
ClaudeBot
61/day
1.1%
Cloudflare zone logs for dchub.cloud · 6-day window ending 2026-08-28 · daily average · 48,045 fetches total over the window
  • 986 AI-engine fetches per day, across the four highlighted crawlers.
  • 52 citation events in 30 days across 4 engines — Perplexity 40 · Gemini 6 · ChatGPT 3 · Claude 3.
  • That works out to roughly 4,600 fetches per citation. We publish the ratio rather than wait to be asked for it.
Crawl counts: Cloudflare zone logs, 6-day window ending 2026-08-28. Citations: our ai_citations table, 30-day window ending 2026-08-28. These two windows are different lengths — the fetches-per-citation ratio normalises both to a daily rate before dividing, and is approximate.

Who DC Hub is built for.

Built for the people making the actual decisions — plus the AI agents working on their behalf.

Operators

Data center engineers

Site selection, capacity planning, power procurement. Equinix, Digital Realty, CoreWeave, hyperscaler infra teams.

Investors

Infrastructure capital

Brookfield, Blackstone, KKR, GIP. Tracking M&A, capex, supply-demand by market.

AI & cloud

AI / cloud engineers

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, AWS infra teams routing compute to where the watts already are.

Agents

Autonomous AI agents

82 MCP tools called by AI agents on behalf of their human principals, over an open protocol any MCP-capable client can connect to.

Two placements.

One puts you on the pages buyers read while they are deciding. The other puts you on the surfaces AI engines fetch when they answer for those buyers. They can be bought separately or together.

Facility & market page presence

A sponsored module on the facility and market page templates — including, if you operate, the pages of the facilities you compete with.

  • Runs on every facility and market page — those two templates, not the whole sitemap
  • Render-stamped impressions and click-through, reported monthly
  • Search Console read access, so you audit the audience figure directly
  • Category exclusivity available — one sponsor per category, for the term
Rotating
6-month minimum
$1,500 / mo
Category-exclusive
12-month minimum
$2,500 / mo

Both placements, category-exclusive, 12-month term

$6,500 / mo

versus $7,500 bought separately — a 13% reduction. This is the only discount on the card. It exists so the two floor prices do not get negotiated directly.

What these placements are not.

Everything below is a reason not to buy. We would rather you read it here than find it out in month two.

Questions buyers actually ask.

If the answer to one of these would change your mind, it should change it before you sign, not after.

How do I verify the audience number before I sign?

We grant you read access to our Google Search Console property. You count the sessions yourself, in Google's own interface, before any money changes hands. The facility count is public and keyless at /api/v1/audience/summary — curl it during the call.

Why do you quote both 283,912 and 1,224?

They measure different things and we keep them apart on purpose. 283,912 is how often a DC Hub page appeared in a Google results page over 28 days — category share of voice. 1,224 is how many people actually arrived. A sponsored module renders on a page load, so 1,224 is the number your placement is priced against.

Is 1,224 sessions a month a lot?

No, and we would rather say so now. It is a small, extremely qualified audience: 77.6% desktop, arriving on a specific facility or market page mid-decision. At $1,500 per month that is about a dollar and a quarter per session. If you need reach, buy something else.

Can I be the only sponsor in my category?

Yes — that is the exclusive tier. One sponsor per category for the length of the term, and no competitor can buy the same page set while you hold it.

What do I actually get every month?

Render-stamped impressions and clicks for your placement, the audience figure for the pages you ran on, and — for the AI placement — a per-engine crawl table from our own edge logs. No competitor can produce that table, which is why it arrives every month with your name on it.

What do I send you?

Prose, not a banner. A placement renders on four surfaces and only one of them keeps markup: the HTML page does, while the plain-text llms.txt, the JSON envelope and the root domain AI engines cite all strip it. So an image would reach one surface out of four and none of the cited ones, and we do not accept them.

Send us three things: a sponsor name up to 60 characters, a message up to 400 readable characters — about two or three sentences — and one https link. Light emphasis is fine (b, strong, i, em, br, no attributes). Everything else is declined at submission with a note saying what to change.

You get exactly one link and we render it ourselves, with rel="sponsored nofollow" through the click-tracked redirect your click count comes from — which is why links inside the message are not accepted. The full spec is machine-readable and public at /api/v1/sponsorships/creative-spec.

Is the AI placement disclosed as sponsored?

Always, in the source text itself, so that an engine reading the page reproduces the label. We test that the label survives into real answers before a placement goes live. If a label does not survive, we do not sell that placement.

Which AI engines actually cite DC Hub?

Over the last 30 days: Perplexity 40, Gemini 6, ChatGPT 3, Claude 3 — 52 measured citation events. Perplexity is 77% of it, so you are overwhelmingly buying Perplexity adjacency. About 31% of our citation records carry no source URL, so treat 52 as a floor rather than a total.

What happens when I cancel?

Your creative stops being served at the origin as soon as we deactivate it. Pages are cached at Cloudflare's edge, so a cached copy can persist beyond that — the stale-while-revalidate windows currently configured are one hour on facility pages and 24 hours on market pages.

An automatic edge purge now fires on every sponsorship state change — activation and cancellation alike — so in practice a cancelled creative clears within minutes rather than sitting out those windows.

We still write one business day into the contract. A purge depends on Cloudflare accepting the call, and a purge that fails is logged loudly rather than silently retried, so one business day is the number we are willing to be held to rather than the number we expect to hit. If it ever actually takes that long, tell us — that is a failure we want to see.

How does billing work?

Invoiced monthly, out of band. No card on file. The first invoice goes out after the first monthly report exists — there is no charge before there is something to show for it.

Who should not buy this?

Anyone who needs volume, anyone selling to consumers, and anyone who wants their message to read as neutral editorial. The label is not removable and the audience is not large.

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