Powered Shell+ Colocation
Critical Facility Systems Managed by RWS.
RWS manages the core facility layer—including backup generation and central cooling capacity—while your team controls rack-level power, cooling distribution, networking, servers, and workloads.
Let RWS Manage the Critical Facility Layer.
Powered Shell+ is designed for teams that want control of their racks, network, and compute environment without designing and operating the major facility systems behind them.
RWS provides conditioned white space, cooling capacity, backup generation, fuel systems, and meet-me-room infrastructure. Your team completes the rack-level environment and deploys its hardware.
RWS provides
- Site and building shell
- Facility power to agreed rack-level demarcation
- Fiber and meet-me-room infrastructure
- Conditioned white space
- Backup generation and fuel systems
- Central cooling plant and capacity
- Agreed facility operations and support
Customer provides
- UPS, PDUs, and rack-level power
- Racks and CDUs
- Network infrastructure
- Servers and GPU systems
- Rack-level integration and commissioning
- Workload operations
RWS delivers facility power and central cooling capacity to the agreed demarcation points. The customer provides rack-level electrical distribution, CDUs, racks, networking, compute systems, and rack-level commissioning.
Focus Your Team on the Infrastructure Closest to the Workload.
- 01 /Leave backup generation and central cooling infrastructure to RWS
- 02 /Retain control of UPS, PDUs, racks, CDUs, networking, and hardware
- 03 /Align facility capacity with rack-density and cooling requirements
- 04 /Define rack-level integration around your technical standards
- 05 /Expand without taking on full facility operations
What We’ll Validate Together
Before confirming a Powered Shell+ deployment, RWS and the customer will review:
- 01 /Required IT load and rack density
- 02 /Facility-power capacity and demarcation
- 03 /Backup-power and resiliency requirements
- 04 /Central cooling capacity
- 05 /CDU and rack-level cooling interfaces
- 06 /UPS, PDU, and rack-level power design
- 07 /Fiber, carriers, and network requirements
- 08 /Rack-level integration and commissioning
- 09 /Deployment schedule
- 10 /Expansion requirements
Keep Control of the Rack. Leave the Facility to RWS.
Review density, cooling, redundancy, network, and expansion requirements with our infrastructure team.
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