> placing a hardware device that you own into a non-shared rack that you pay for inside a United States datacenter would be a very good start.
Why even bother a non-shared rack when you can't even guarantee the physical security of your hardware in the first place, as you've outsourced all that responsibility to a third party, the datacenter?
Because when you have your own rack you can put arbitrary devices and safeguards into and on it.
So you're right - the datacenter can open and close and tamper with the rack as they see fit - but I can notify myself of that and even video record it.
Interruption of the physical monitoring would be itself a signal.
I've never done this, but I have placed many strange and arbitrary devices within, and on top of, racks I have leased and nobody notices or cares unless you're a nuisance somehow.
Why even bother a non-shared rack when you can't even guarantee the physical security of your hardware in the first place, as you've outsourced all that responsibility to a third party, the datacenter?