The millisecond race! The rent for data centers near the exchange has increased.

Recently, reporters interviewed industry insiders and learned that since June of this year, brokerage firm servers have gradually been withdrawn from the stock exchange data centers. Several brokerage firms are preparing new server locations near the stock exchange data center, and some quantitative private equity firms have also rented cabinets nearby. Due to a significant increase in demand, the rental prices for cabinets in the relevant areas have risen sharply, with mainstream 4000-watt standard financial cabinet rents increasing by as much as 40% to 50%. Multiple private equity individuals have revealed that due to the matching principle of price priority and time priority, there is indeed a demand among quantitative private equity firms for reducing physical link latency. However, it is the few ultra-high-frequency strategies that truly rely on speed competition, rather than the overall quantitative private equity sector. Leading institutions that focus on mid- to low-frequency strategies are currently not competing on speed but are continually investing in the richness of excess return sources.