Electrical scope for multi-tenant colocation facilities across Texas. Tier III concurrent maintainable design, tenant white-space buildouts, and the operator-tenant scope discipline that colo projects require.
Colocation data center work differs from both enterprise and hyperscale in important ways. Colo operators (Equinix, Digital Realty, QTS, Stack Infrastructure, DataBank, Cyxtera) build facilities that will be leased to dozens of tenants over their operating life. The base building infrastructure has to be Tier III concurrent maintainable as a baseline, with the flexibility to support tenant power densities ranging from 3kW to 50kW+ per rack. Scope splits between the operator and the tenant are formalized in the lease and have to land exactly on the design demarcation points.
We deliver colocation electrical scope across base-building construction (operator scope) and tenant white-space fit-out (tenant scope). Most of our colocation work supports the major Texas colocation operators with new building construction and capacity expansion within operating facilities.
Base building electrical including utility service entrance, generator plant, MV distribution, UPS systems, and critical bus distribution to the tenant demarcation point. Sized to support full operator design load with concurrent maintainability across every meaningful component.
Tenant white-space buildouts from PDU through rack power. Branch circuit monitoring, intelligent rack PDU installations, and density-flexible distribution for tenants ranging from traditional 5–10kW deployments through 30–50kW+ liquid-cooled racks.
Tier III concurrent maintainable distribution — multiple paths with one active at a time, allowing maintenance of any electrical component without IT load disruption. ATS, STS, and bus configurations sized to support concurrent maintenance protocols.
Each colocation operator has internal design standards differing in details from generic Tier III. Equinix IBX standards, Digital Realty global design specs, QTS operating standards, and so on. We build to operator standard, not generic spec.
Colocation power infrastructure is designed for unknown future tenants. We build distribution that accommodates traditional rack densities through high-density AI deployments without infrastructure replacement, including overhead busway with plug-in capacity headroom.
White-space tenant transitions in operating facilities. New tenant power-up sequences without disruption to neighboring tenant racks, tenant-decommission electrical scope, and concurrent-with-operations construction discipline.
The major Texas colocation operators driving the bulk of multi-tenant data center construction across DFW, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. Each operator has its own contractor qualification process, internal commissioning protocols, and tenant-coordination workflows. We maintain qualifications and working relationships across the spectrum of operators active in Texas.
Yes. Most of our colocation work is base-building scope under the operator’s GC, but we also do tenant white-space fit-out work where the tenant has selected us directly or our base-building relationship leads to the tenant fit-out award.
A 10–30MW colocation building typically lands at 14–20 months from NTP to first-customer-energization. The variable is utility coordination and long-lead switchgear — both of which can drive an additional 6–12 weeks on the critical path if not engaged early.
Yes, with caveats. Many colocation buildings built before 2022 weren’t designed for 30–50kW rack densities. Tenant fit-out for AI workloads in older base buildings requires assessment of the available distribution infrastructure, often busway upsizing, and sometimes coordination with the operator on base-building reinforcement.
Send us your design package or operator standard. We’ll come back with pricing and a preconstruction engagement plan.