Certificate of insurance
General liability, auto, workers' compensation and umbrella, naming your entity as additional insured before crews arrive.
Pre-mobilizationService · Full scope
Data Center Decommissioning
A decommissioning is a sequencing problem before it is a labor problem. We own the whole sequence — survey, de-energize, de-rack, demolish, recover, rig, haul, document — and we buy the equipment, which is what turns a cost center into a payment.
ScopeWe decommission
and load
and load
PaymentBefore the truck
leaves
leaves
CoverageAll 50 states
and DC
and DC
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Scope of work
IT decommissioning comes first: inventory by serial, de-cable, de-rack, separate drives under chain of custody, and palletize. Then the physical layer — cabinets unbolted, containment disassembled, ladder rack and tray removed, structured cabling pulled back, floor tiles and pedestals lifted where the raised floor is coming out.
Electrical demolition follows the outage plan: distribution de-energized and verified, PDUs and RPPs removed, busway sections dropped, switchgear and switchboards disconnected and rigged, UPS frames and battery cabinets removed with batteries properly manifested, transformers de-energized with oil contained, generators disconnected including fuel line isolation and tank handling.
Mechanical work runs in parallel: refrigerant recovered under EPA 608 by certified technicians with documentation, glycol loops drained and disposed, piping cut and capped, CRAC and CRAH units removed, chillers and cooling towers rigged out, pumps and condensers taken with them. Finally the space is swept, penetrations noted, and the room handed back broom clean for the landlord walkthrough.
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How we sequence a live room
Rooms that still carry load get phased. The default order is IT and racks first, because they can usually be removed circuit by circuit without touching the plant. Then distribution, once each branch is confirmed dead. Then the power and cooling plant, once the last critical circuit has been transferred or retired.
The phasing is written into the offer, with the outage windows each phase requires. That document is what keeps facilities, security, IT and the landlord aligned, and it is why our projects do not end with somebody improvising in a hall at two in the morning.
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Documentation you receive
Insurance
Commercial
Signed purchase agreement
Every asset itemized with its price and the removal scope stated, plus a W-9 for your vendor file.
At acceptanceSecurity
Drive destruction certificates
Serialized, reconciled against your asset register, method stated per drive.
Per loadEnvironmental
Refrigerant and battery records
EPA 608 recovery documentation, battery manifests, downstream processor records for material recovery.
Per loadLogistics
Weight tickets and BOL
Certified scale tickets where weight determines value, and a bill of lading for each departure.
Per loadCloseout
Reconciled final report
What left, when, on which truck, and where it went, matched line by line to the original list.
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Equipment we remove and purchase
Three-phase, modular and monolithic
UPS Systems
We buy three-phase uninterruptible power supplies out of live and decommissioned white space: modular frames, monolithic units, matching battery cabinets and the static switches that go with them.
10 kVA – 2.5 MVA modulesFloor-mount, RPP and rack PDUsPDUs
Floor-mount PDUs with integral transformers, remote power panels, and metered or switched rack PDUs by the pallet — we buy all three tiers of distribution.
50 kVA – 1000 kVA floor unitsOverhead track, tap boxes, elbowsBusway
Overhead busway is the most reusable thing in a white space and the most commonly thrown away. We buy full runs, tap-off boxes, elbows and end feeds.
225 A – 5000 A runsLV and MV, ATS, breakersSwitchgear
Low-voltage lineups, medium-voltage metal-clad gear, automatic transfer switches and loose breakers — bought as complete lineups or section by section.
480 V – 38 kV lineupsDiesel and gas, enclosed or openGenerators
Standby diesel and natural gas generator sets, sub-base and belly tanks, paralleling gear and radiator packages — running or not.
100 kW – 3 MW standby setsAir-cooled, water-cooled, CRAH/CRACChillers
Air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, CRAC and CRAH units, pumps and dry coolers — the whole mechanical plant.
50 – 2000 ton capacityCompute, storage, network, GPUServers
Rackmount compute, storage arrays, network gear and GPU nodes — bought by the rack or by the hall, with documented data destruction.
Single racks – full hallsEverything the equipment sits inData Center Infrastructure
Cabinets, containment, cable tray, raised floor, fiber and copper plant — the structure everything else was mounted in.
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Related services
Service
ITAD Services
IT asset disposition with serialized reporting, data destruction and documented downstream recovery.
ServiceHard Drive Destruction
NIST 800-88 wiping, degaussing and on-site physical shredding with certificates.
ServiceEquipment Removal
Rigging, disassembly, elevator and dock logistics, freight and site sweep.
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Frequently asked questions
Does decommissioning cost us money or make us money?
On most projects the equipment value exceeds our removal cost and you receive a payment. On very old or heavily stripped rooms the reverse can be true and the project nets near zero or a modest fee. We tell you which case applies before you commit.
How long does a decommissioning take?
A small room is a day or two. A typical enterprise hall runs one to three weeks. Large multi-hall facilities and phased shutdowns run longer and are scheduled in stages around your outage windows.
Can you meet a landlord white-box requirement?
Yes, and we would rather see the lease language up front. White-box obligations vary a lot — some require floor and ceiling restoration, others only removal — and the scope should reflect the actual contractual requirement.
Who handles refrigerant?
EPA 608 certified technicians on our crew, with recovery documentation issued per unit. Refrigerant is never vented, and the records are part of your closeout package.
Do you work in secure and government facilities?
Yes. Escorted crews, background checks, badge documentation, restricted-hours work and on-site-only drive destruction are all standard options. Tell us the requirements at the quote stage so they are priced in.
Send the list. Get a written number.
Same business day, itemized, with the removal scope stated.
Request a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just tell us roughly what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call or text 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm ET
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm ET