# 2025-01777: Gemx Traders Pay Extra for That Millisecond Server Snuggle

2025-01777, Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq GEMX, LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Establish Fees for Its Expanded Co-Location Services, is a Federal Register notice from Securities and Exchange Commission published 2025-01-28, effective 2025-01-16; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01777
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-01777
- Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq GEMX, LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Establish Fees for Its Expanded Co-Location Services
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 8315
- Published: 2025-01-28
- Effective: 2025-01-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Gemx Traders Pay Extra for That Millisecond Server Snuggle

## Summary

Nasdaq GEMX is rolling out new fees for its expanded co-location services, which let traders place their computers super close to the exchange’s servers for faster trading. This change affects anyone using these services and kicks in right away, so get ready to pay a bit more for that speed boost. The SEC is open to feedback for the next 60 days, but the fees are already in effect.

## Effects PRIA read

- New Fees for Co-Location Services: cost, medium. If you use Nasdaq GEMX's expanded co-location services (placing your computers close to the exchange’s servers for faster trading), you will pay newly established fees that went into effect when the exchange filed the rule change on January 16, 2025. The SEC published the notice on January 28, 2025…

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## Sources
- [2025-01777 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/28/2025-01777/self-regulatory-organizations-nasdaq-gemx-llc-notice-of-filing-and-immediate-effectiveness-of)
- [2025-01777 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-28/pdf/2025-01777.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01777 (as of 2026-06-08).