This actually surprises me quite a bit. There are a lot of very expensive facilities on this list. Ones that I would not want to put much equipment in if I was

This actually surprises me quite a bit. There are a lot of very expensive facilities on this list. Ones that I would not want to put much equipment in if I was at the scale I presume Digital Ocean is at. But maybe it's a factor of organic growth and starting each region small, then having to grow into it. You can often get space for like 1/3rd the cost of Equinix but with a lot less services and maybe less quality. Equinix makes a very nice datacenter but you sure do pay for it. If I were building a CDN or an edge compute product like Fly.io or Render, I'd certainly have a facility list that looked like this, because I'm charging a bit of a premium for excellent connectivity to population centers. Though I'd do some kind of managed hosting first until I had the scale to even get into collocation. But for a bulk cloud provider I'd try to only use these facilities for things like network POPs, DNS services, CDN, etc. Then lease fiber to another facility that was a lot cheaper for the bulk of my compute. But that does take a certain threshold of scale to get there, and a longish planning horizon to make it happen unless you're growing at insane rates.