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title: "How Do I Understand Excessive Lab Launch Times?"
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# How Do I Understand Excessive Lab Launch Times?

## Best Practice for Understanding How Labs are Launched

When a lab is launched, an attempt is made to place the lab in the datacenter closest to your location. However, depending on a variety of factors including storage availability, regional demand, or scheduled maintenance windows, a given lab launch may be placed in a datacenter further away. When this happens, the lab will go to the next available region.

If the datacenter closest to your location is available but certain lab files need to be obtained from a neighboring datacenter, the launch may be delayed to ensure all necessary lab files have finished provisioning. This loading time may vary based on size and number of files that must be provisioned.

## Mitigate Excessive Launch Times

If you believe that your lab has taken an excessive amount of time to launch, we recommend performing the following the steps to [Cancel a Running Lab](/v1/docs/how-do-i-cancel-or-save-a-running-lab), to attempt a relaunch. If you have a similar issue upon a relaunch of your lab, please reach out to your learning provider for assistance.