In colocation environments, cleaning responsibility is split between the facility operator and each tenant — but the boundaries are rarely written down clearly. Misalignment leads to particulate contamination that affects every tenant on the floor.
Landlord Responsibility
- Common corridors and cold aisles outside cages.
- MMR (Meet-Me Room) and shared telecom rooms.
- Loading dock and staging area.
- Building envelope, common restrooms, break rooms.
- Air filtration and HVAC PM.
Tenant Responsibility
- Interior of the cage or private suite.
- Top-of-rack surfaces and rack interior.
- Under-floor plenum within the cage footprint (when accessible).
- PDU and CRAC unit exteriors within the cage.
- Any cardboard staging or waste disposal from build-outs.
Coordinating Vendors
Best practice is to hire the same critical-environment cleaning vendor the landlord uses. This ensures consistent particle standards, shared incident response, and no finger-pointing when contamination is detected.
Colocation Cage Cleaning
We serve tenants in every major Atlanta colocation facility with cage-scoped critical environment cleaning.