DCEBData Center Equipment Buyer954-740-1983
Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions facility and IT teams actually ask before they let a buyer into the room.

ScopeWe decommission
and load
PaymentBefore the truck
leaves
CoverageAll 50 states
and DC
Drive destruction with serial capture
Every drive inventoried by serial, destruction certified.
01

Selling to us

Are you a broker or the actual buyer?
The actual buyer. We purchase with our own capital, remove with our own crews and resell from our own inventory.
How fast can you get us an offer?
Same business day from an asset list or photographs. Complex multi-site projects sometimes take a second day because we price each site's removal separately.
Do you charge for removal?
Removal is stated as a line inside the offer rather than billed separately. On most projects the equipment value exceeds the removal cost and you receive a net payment. Where a room is mostly low-value material, we say so in writing instead of discovering it on the dock.
When do we get paid?
Before the equipment leaves your dock — wire, company check or cashier's check. On phased projects, per load.
Will the price change after your crew arrives?
Not if the equipment matches the list. If it does not — batteries removed, a unit cannibalized, different model — we re-price that line in writing and you decide before anything moves.
What happens to the data on our drives?
Drives are inventoried by serial number and either shredded on site in our mobile unit or destroyed at our facility under video. You receive a certificate of destruction listing every serial.
Do you buy equipment that is still running?
Yes, and most of what we buy is still installed and often still energized when we first see it. We coordinate the outage, de-energize and remove.
Do you buy a single unit?
Yes. A single UPS, transformer, chiller or generator is a normal purchase. We prefer whole rooms because the valuable equipment can carry the low-value material.
What documentation do we get?
A written itemized offer, certificates of insurance before mobilization, drive destruction certificates by serial, weight tickets and downstream recycling documentation, and photographs of the room as we left it.
Do you work nights and weekends?
Routinely. Most data center removals happen outside business hours because that is when the outage is approved.
Which states do you cover?
All 50 and DC, with dedicated pages for 7,518 cities.
What if we only want the room cleared, not sold?
We still want to look. Even rooms the owner assumes are worthless usually contain switchgear, busway, copper or batteries with real value, and that value offsets what a straight disposal contractor would charge you.
02

What you are actually buying from us

01

We do the decommissioning

Our crews rack out the hardware, de-energize and pull the electrical distribution, recover refrigerant, drain glycol, cut and cap piping, and break down containment and cabinets. You are not hiring a broker who then hires a rigger who then hires a hauler. One company, one point of contact, one insurance certificate.

02

We do the loading

Rigging, lift and crane work, dock plates, pallets, stretch wrap, load bars, straps and the trucks themselves are ours. Overhead busway comes down on lifts. Generators and chillers go out on cranes. Servers leave palletized and manifested. Nothing about the load-out becomes your problem.

03

Payment before the truck leaves

You are paid in full before equipment leaves your dock — wire, company check or cashier's check, your choice. No consignment, no percentage of eventual resale, no invoice you have to chase. The racks stay where they are until the money has landed.

04

Drive destruction, documented

Every data-bearing device is degaussed and physically destroyed, on your floor if you prefer. You receive a certificate of destruction listing serial numbers and a chain-of-custody record signed at each handoff, formatted so your audit team can reconcile it against your asset register.

05

The room is left clean

Floor tiles reset, penetrations patched, abandoned cable removed, debris hauled, and the space swept. Where a landlord or lease requires a specific restoration standard, we work to it and document the result with photographs before and after.

06

Written offers that hold

Quotes are written, itemized by category, and hold for thirty days. If your process needs a formal bid document, a W-9, a certificate of insurance naming your entity, or a purchase order reference on the offer, say so and it is on the paperwork.

03

What we buy

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 modules
Floor-mount, RPP and rack PDUs

PDUs

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 units
Overhead track, tap boxes, elbows

Busway

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 runs
LV and MV, ATS, breakers

Switchgear

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 lineups
Diesel and gas, enclosed or open

Generators

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 sets
Air-cooled, water-cooled, CRAH/CRAC

Chillers

Air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, CRAC and CRAH units, pumps and dry coolers — the whole mechanical plant.

50 – 2000 ton capacity
Compute, storage, network, GPU

Servers

Rackmount compute, storage arrays, network gear and GPU nodes — bought by the rack or by the hall, with documented data destruction.

Single racks – full halls
Everything the equipment sits in

Data Center Infrastructure

Cabinets, containment, cable tray, raised floor, fiber and copper plant — the structure everything else was mounted in.

Cabinets, tray, containment, floor

Question not answered?

Call 954-740-1983 and ask.

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.

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