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Advice on exiting a data center

The sequence an exit has to follow, what a destruction certificate actually proves, and who keeps the resale upside. Three new articles a week.

Cutaway of an exit sequence: rack row, floor void, equipment path to staging, destruction station

Latest · July 30, 2026 · 8 min

The sequence a data center exit has to follow, and where projects go wrong

Eight stages, and the two that get compressed under deadline pressure are the two that create the liability.

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A written scope, after a site walk

Four questions, then a call with the floor plan and the asset register open.

Data Center Exit decommissions data halls: asset inventory, de-cabling, rack removal, on-site or witnessed data destruction, resale and recycling, and the certificate trail that proves each of them happened.