Two sides of the same market. We dispose of the infrastructure that comes out of data centers during refresh, consolidation and closure — and we bring industrial buildings with existing power, cooling and structure to developers looking for sites.
Data center estates turn over constantly. Refresh cycles retire servers and network gear long before the buildings age; consolidations leave UPS systems, switchgear and cooling plant stranded; acquisitions duplicate capacity that then sits idle.
Much of that infrastructure has a strong secondary market. Power and cooling equipment in particular holds value well, because lead times on new units remain long and specification changes slowly.
At the same time, the constraint on new data center development is rarely land. It is power, water, fiber and time — and the industrial buildings we bring to market often already carry substantial electrical service, cooling capacity and heavy structure.
That is why we market certain industrial properties to data center developers alongside manufacturers and investors. Whether a given site suits that use is a question of utility capacity, fiber routes, environmental conditions and local approvals, and it has to be confirmed site by site.
A building with existing heavy power and cooling is not a data center.
It is a shorter route to one than a greenfield site, which is a different claim and a more useful one.
Decommissioning and refresh programmes typically release several of these categories at once.
UPS systems and battery plant, switchgear, transformers, PDUs, busway, automatic transfer switches and distribution panels.
Diesel and gas generator sets, paralleling switchgear, fuel systems, enclosures and associated controls.
Chillers, CRAC and CRAH units, in-row and rear-door cooling, cooling towers, pumps, dry coolers and heat rejection plant.
Racks and cabinets, hot and cold aisle containment, raised flooring, overhead tray and structured cabling systems.
Servers, storage arrays and network equipment, handled with documented data sanitisation and chain of custody before any resale.
Fire detection and suppression, leak detection, BMS and DCIM controls, environmental monitoring and security systems.
No IT hardware leaves a site without documented data destruction or drive removal first.
On this asset class, chain of custody is part of the value, not an administrative afterthought.
We currently market industrial real estate in several states to developers, manufacturers and investors. The attributes below are what tend to matter for conversion — each has to be verified for any specific site and intended use.
Incoming service capacity, substation and switchgear already in place, and the distribution infrastructure of a working industrial plant.
Process cooling, chilled water systems, cooling towers and the water service that supported continuous manufacturing.
Heavy industrial floor loading, clear heights, column spacing, dock and craneage — the physical attributes that are expensive to build new.
Fiber routes, proximity to transmission, and the road and rail position that manufacturing sites were originally selected for.
Real estate alone, real estate with the equipment in place, equipment purchase with a facility lease, or sale and relocation of the plant.
Inventory the infrastructure or survey the building, capture specification, capacity, condition and service history, and identify what transfers and what does not.
On live estates, data sanitisation and documented destruction run before anything is marketed. Nothing with retained data enters a sale process.
Infrastructure is valued against current lead times and demand. Buildings are positioned against what a developer would otherwise have to build.
Operators, integrators, developers, manufacturers and investors — targeted directly rather than listed and left.
Negotiated sale, private treaty or auction, followed by de-installation, rigging, removal and documented reconciliation.
If you are retiring data center infrastructure, send an equipment list. If you are looking for a site, tell us the power, cooling and connectivity you need and we will tell you honestly whether anything we hold is worth a look.
Built for what’s next.
