01 / BARE SHELL

Bare-Shell Colocation

Built Around Your Infrastructure

Bring your facility engineering and operating model to an RWS power- and fiber-secured site. RWS provides the site, building shell, utility power, and fiber access. Your team designs and delivers the downstream environment.

01 / BARE SHELL

Build on an RWS Power and Fiber Foundation.

Bare Shell gives experienced infrastructure operators control of the facility systems behind their deployment. RWS provides the site, building shell, utility power, and fiber access. Your team designs and delivers the downstream environment.

This model is suited to organizations with established data-center engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations capabilities.

RWS provides

  • Site and building shell
  • Utility power delivery
  • Fiber access
  • Physical site infrastructure
  • Agreed access and operating framework

Customer provides

  • Downstream electrical distribution
  • Backup generation and fuel systems
  • Cooling plant and distribution
  • UPS and PDUs
  • Racks and CDUs
  • Network infrastructure
  • Servers and GPU systems
  • Integration and commissioning
  • Workload operations

Final demarcation points, interfaces, installation responsibilities, and operating obligations are established during project engineering and contracting.

Built Around Your Team

Build the Environment Your Team Already Knows How to Operate.

  • 01 /Retain control of electrical, mechanical, rack, and network architecture
  • 02 /Apply your established engineering and equipment standards
  • 03 /Define commissioning and operations around your internal capabilities
  • 04 /Reduce initial site-development work with an RWS power and fiber foundation
  • 05 /Align initial capacity with a defined path for future expansion
Deployment Qualification

What We'll Validate Together

Before confirming a Bare Shell deployment, RWS and the customer will review:

  • 01 /Required utility and IT power
  • 02 /Space and construction scope
  • 03 /Fiber and carrier requirements
  • 04 /Customer infrastructure interfaces
  • 05 /Site access and logistics
  • 06 /Deployment schedule
  • 07 /Expansion requirements
  • 08 /Operating responsibilities

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