RE: Exodus "locking down" customer gear due to bankruptcy?

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Which means they have to do a very careful inventory of all of EXODUS's assets. But a server owned by me, colo'd at Exodus, isn't an Exodus asset.

No, but their receivables are and they are technically a landlord. They have what is considered a landlord's lien in many states, whether or not the contract specifically provides for one. If the state that the server is in has such legislation, that equipment is essebtuakky a substitutable asset in place of your delinquent receivables. Companies typically only care to enforce provisos like that when accounts are tremendously past due OR when the landlord (EXDS here) is in financial trouble and knows every penny counts.