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Colocation & multi-tenant IDC

One cabinet, one tenant boundary. One row, one billable unit.

A tenant does not rent a room. They rent a cabinet, and what they can point at is the door, the meter and the row they are allowed to grow into. That is what this page prices.

Send us your row layout
Sealed containment seen along its length from a low angle: the flank of the cabinet row with repeating mesh side panels, a blue LED line running the length of the fascia and the glass end door where the row stops.
Cabinets per row
3–8
Deployment
2–3weeks
Cooling energy saved
25%+

The open row problem

What an open row shares, and what a tenant block does not

Four things a colocation operator has to answer for. Each one is a build decision, not an adjective.

Open rowCold air mixes with hot air along the whole run, so the last cabinet in the row sets the supply temperature for everyone.

Tenant blockContained cold aisle with blanking panels, so the supply air reaches the intake of every cabinet in that row.

Open rowOne shared run of cabinets with no line a tenant can point at when he asks where his equipment ends.

Tenant blockA front door and a rear door on every cabinet, so the boundary is a physical object, not a floor plan.

Open rowOne meter for the whole row, and an argument every month about who drew what.

Tenant blockMounting positions reserved for intelligent busway / PDU inside each cabinet — third-party metering, per cabinet.

Open rowAdding capacity disturbs the whole row, so it gets postponed until a tenant complains.

Tenant blockThree to eight cabinets side by side, extendable, added tenant by tenant without touching the row next door.

Specification

What a tenant boundary is made of

Per-cabinet specification — one line per tender item
Parameter (per cabinet)Value
Rack height42U = 2000 mm · 47U = 2200 mm; other heights built to order
Width × depth600×1000 · 600×1100 · 600×1200 · 800×1200 mm
Uprights / doors2.0 mm uprights · 1.2 mm doors
SteelBaosteel / Ansteel SPCC cold-rolled
Front door mesh≥75%
Rear door mesh≥60%
Static load1,000 kg standard · 1,500 kg on reinforced-frame models
GroundingFront door, rear door and frame — multiple points
Metering positionsMounting positions reserved for intelligent busway / PDU — third-party metering, per cabinet
Cable space600 mm depth for patch and power; 800 mm wide for high cable count
Surface finishDegrease → phosphating → electrostatic powder coating
Structural warranty5 years on the rack frame
Containment per row3–8 cabinets side by side, extendable; sliding glass doors at the row end; flip top panels for gas suppression access

Row elevation

Let the next row happen on paper first

The elevation below is the row you are buying, drawn end-on: cabinets side by side, sliding glass doors at the row end, flip top panels above the aisle, an in-row cooling unit, and blanking positions where cabinets are not yet filled.

  • Row endSliding glass doors close the aisle; the row reads as one room.
  • RoofFlip top panels, so gas suppression can reach the aisle.
  • CoolingIn-row unit closes the cooling loop with the containment.
  • BlankingEmpty U positions are covered, not left open.
Elevation of a contained row: cabinets side by side, a sliding glass door at the row end, flip top panels above the aisle, an in-row cooling unit, and an arrow showing the direction the row extends. Flip top panels 3 to 8 cabinets, side by side In-row cooling Sliding glass doors service aisle side extends
Row elevation. The arrow is the direction the next three cabinets go — the row is designed for its final count from the start.

Deployment cadence

Five steps, and only two dates in the whole page

  1. 01

    Site survey and floor check

  2. 02

    Row layout and specification freeze

  3. 03

    Factory build

  4. 04

    Containment, doors and blind panels

  5. 05

    Power-up and handover

A contained row is deployed in 2–3 weeks. A single-row cabinet is installed in 3 hours.

Close view of the row-end joint: the aluminium frame upright, the edge of the sliding glass leaf parked against it, the shadow gap to the cabinet side panel and the adjustable floor fixing at the base.
The row-end joint — where the sliding leaf meets the frame, and where the row can be opened up again for the next three cabinets.

Scope of supply

What comes from us, and what comes from a partner brand

Machined and assembled by ems-rack

  • Server racks42U and 47U, 600 and 800 wide.
  • Cold aisle containmentRoof panels, end doors and blind panels for the row.
  • Micro-modular roomsContainment, in-row cooling and power as one delivered row.
  • Power distribution cabinetsSheet-metal enclosures with the reserved zone for busway or PDU.

Partner brands, supplied under authorisation

  • Precision air conditioningEnvicool. Manufactured by Envicool — not by ems-rack.
  • UPSBainard. Manufactured by Bainard — not by ems-rack.
  • Structured cablingYizhou. Manufactured by Yizhou — not by ems-rack.
Partner brands, and what we make ourselves
Prefabricated micro-modular room as delivered: one single-row cabinet with its own containment standing against a plain wall on a freshly finished floor, the row complete from plinth to roof panel.
Factory-built room, delivered as one unit — the project record below.

Project record

Taiyuan No. 4 Hospital data centre — healthcare

This is a hospital project, and it is labelled as one: the client is a healthcare operator, not a colocation provider. It is on this page because the delivery mechanism is the one a colocation expansion needs.

Scope
Micro-modular room, precision air conditioning and environmental monitoring.
Method
Prefabricated in the factory and delivered whole, so on-site work was cut down rather than spread out.
Outcome
Accepted in a single inspection.

Next step

Send us the row you want to add

Row layout, tenant count and the power you want at each cabinet — we answer with a bill of materials per row.

Send us your row layout

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