Infrastructure Building

Data center & physical infrastructure

Infrastructure Building

The physical layer under everything, data halls, structured cabling, power, and cooling, engineered to standard and built to run. From a single server room to a Tier III data center or a liquid-cooled AI hall.

Why the physical layer

Cloud runs on concrete.

Every workload, on-prem or hybrid, eventually lands on real power, real cooling, and real copper and fiber. Get that layer wrong and no amount of software fixes it. We design and build data center and server-room infrastructure to ANSI/TIA and Uptime Institute standards: clean power with UPS and generator backup, cooling matched to your rack density, structured cabling that will still be tidy in five years, and redundancy sized to the availability you need. This is the physical foundation your cloud and GPU platforms sit on.

  • Built to standard. ANSI/TIA-568 cabling, Uptime Institute tiers, proper grounding and bonding, documented end to end.
  • Power and cooling that match the load. Right-sized UPS, PDU, and generator; air, containment, or direct-to-chip liquid for AI density.
  • Redundancy by design. N+1 or 2N topologies for concurrently maintainable or fault-tolerant operation.
Rack power densityair limit then liquid
040kW80kW120kW air ceiling ~40kW ~120kW

Illustrative density trend. Air cooling tops out near 40 kW per rack; dense AI racks pass 100 kW and require direct-to-chip liquid.

By the numbers

Engineered to the target.

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Fault-tolerant power option
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Liquid-cooled PUE
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What we build

The full physical stack.

Design, supply, and installation across every layer of the facility, from the utility feed to the patch panel.

Data center design & build-out

Whitespace planning, floor and rack layout, power and cooling capacity modelling, and full fit-out, whether it is a server room in your own building, a private data hall, or cabinets inside a colocation facility. We design to Uptime Institute tiers and hand over documented as-builts.

Space planningColo deploymentEdge / micro DCAs-built docs

Structured cabling

Cat6A copper, OM4/OM5 multimode and single-mode fiber, MPO trunks, and patching to ANSI/TIA-568, labelled and tested.

Power & UPS

Utility feeds, UPS, PDU, standby generator, and ATS for clean, backed-up power with no single point of failure.

Cooling & containment

CRAC and CRAH units, hot and cold aisle containment, and in-row cooling for standard density, plus direct-to-chip liquid cooling for AI and GPU racks that air simply cannot handle. Sized to your load and tuned for a lower PUE.

Racks & cabinets

Cabinets, open racks, cable management, and containment, mechanically sound and airflow-aware.

Security & DCIM monitoring

Physical access control, environmental sensors, and DCIM for real-time power, cooling, and capacity visibility.

Redundancy & availability

Uptime Institute tiers, at a glance.

Tiers describe topology and redundancy, not just a number. We design to the tier your availability target demands.

Uptime Institute tiers with redundancy, availability, and annual downtime
TierRedundancyAvailabilityAnnual downtime
Tier I, BasicNo redundancy, single path99.671%28.8 hours
Tier II, Redundant componentsN+1 components, single path99.741%22 hours
Tier III, Concurrently maintainableN+1, dual path, maintain without downtime99.982%1.6 hours
Tier IV, Fault tolerant2N or 2N+1, fully fault tolerant99.995%26.3 minutes
How we build

From brief to burn-in.

01 / DESIGN

Assess & design

We capture your load, density, and growth, then engineer power, cooling, cabling, and tier topology to match.

02 / PERMIT

Permit & procure

Coordinate utility, electrical, permits, and inspections, and procure UPS, generators, racks, and cabling.

03 / BUILD

Install & cable

Power, cooling, containment, and structured cabling installed to standard, then labelled and tested.

04 / OPERATE

Commission & hand over

Load-bank and burn-in testing, DCIM live, as-builts delivered, and optional ongoing management.

Questions

Infrastructure, answered.

Do you build in our own space or in a colocation facility?
Both. We design and build out server rooms and private data centers in your own space, and we also deploy and cable cabinets inside a colocation facility. If you are choosing between the two, we model the power, cooling, and space you need and help you decide where to land.
When do we need liquid cooling instead of air?
Air cooling comfortably handles most racks up to roughly 20 to 40 kW with hot and cold aisle containment. Above that, dense AI and GPU racks need direct-to-chip liquid cooling. Liquid also lowers PUE, typically under 1.2 versus 1.4 to 1.6 for air, so it saves energy at scale. See our GPU Infrastructure page for the compute side.
What Uptime Institute tier do we actually need?
It depends on how much downtime your business can absorb. Tier II suits standard workloads, Tier III (concurrently maintainable, N+1) fits most revenue-critical systems, and Tier IV (fault tolerant, 2N) is for platforms that cannot go down. We size redundancy to the availability you need, not to a label.
Do you handle permits and the electrical work?
Yes. We coordinate utility feeds, licensed electrical work, generator and ATS installation, grounding and bonding, and the permits and inspections that go with them, working with your facilities team and local authorities so the build passes and stays compliant.
Can you also manage the environment after it is built?
Yes. We install DCIM monitoring for power, cooling, and capacity, and our Managed IT Services team can run the facility day to day under SLAs, from environmental alerting to on-site remote hands.
Infrastructure Building

Build it right,
once.

Tell us the load, the density, and the space. We will design the power, cooling, cabling, and redundancy, then build and commission it to standard.