Decommission your data centre without disrupting the business.
Site survey to handover. Live-site safe. Fully UK-compliant, with EU programmes documented to EU standards. We retire racks, recover value and restore the floor: phased, accelerated or selective, with one team end to end.
Every decommission ends with a complete documentation pack you can share directly with auditors, your board, the landlord or the ICO.
Full Asset Inventory
Make, model, serial and disposition for every removed asset
Per-Device Destruction Certificates
Serial-numbered, signed, NIST 800-88 aligned
WEEE & Hazardous Waste Notes
Consignment notes, F-Gas refrigerant recovery, recycling certificates
Before & After Photo Pack
Rack-level photography plus restored facility handover shots
Quick answer
What is data centre decommissioning?
Data centre decommissioning is the planned removal, recording, sanitisation, resale, recycling or destruction of servers, storage, network devices, racks and supporting infrastructure. Each asset is tracked through chain of custody to a documented final disposition, closing with a full audit pack.
Why UK and European operators choose us
Built for live-site, regulated environments
ISO 27001 Certified
Independently audited information security covering every step of the chain of custody.
CSCS-Carded Engineers
Site-safety qualified, DBS-checked engineers experienced in live data centre environments.
Zero Landfill Promise
F-Gas, WEEE, and Hazardous Waste compliant disposal across every component.
Live-Site Capable
Decommission alongside running workloads with no impact on production environments.
Pick the programme that fits your deadline
Every project is bespoke, but most fall into one of three patterns. We help you pick on the first call.
Best for production environments
Phased
Gradual, milestone-driven decommissioning over weeks or months. Non-critical systems first, critical workloads last, with rollback plans at every gate.
- Aligned to your maintenance windows
- Live-site safe
- Detailed milestone plan
Best for lease deadlines
Accelerated
Rapid decommissioning completed in days, not months. Multiple parallel work streams to hit hard deadlines without compromising safety.
- Same-week mobilisation
- Multi-team parallel execution
- Fixed completion date
Best for partial refreshes
Selective
Targeted decommissioning of specific racks, suites or kit while the rest of the facility stays operational. Ideal for tech refresh and partial cloud migrations.
- Surgical, rack-level scope
- No-touch zones honoured
- Cabling and airflow preserved
Six phases. One controlled shutdown.
Every step is gated, signed-off and documented before the next begins. No surprises, no missed risks.
Site Survey & Asset Discovery
On-site walk-through, full equipment inventory, dependency mapping and risk register. Output is a costed, milestone-led project plan.
Planning & Stakeholder Alignment
Method statement, RAMS, traffic management and security clearances. Sign-off from facilities, IT, security and landlord teams.
Mobilisation & Safety Setup
PPE, lifting equipment, ESD-safe trolleys, access control and tamper-evident seals deployed. Engineer briefings completed on day one.
Disconnection & Asset Removal
Power-down sequencing, cable removal, rack-level photography, asset tagging, secure crating and transport to processing facility.
Infrastructure & Environmental Strip-Out
CRAC/CRAH refrigerant recovery (F-Gas certified), UPS battery extraction, PDU and cable removal, fire suppression decommissioning.
Restoration & Documentation Pack
Floor reinstatement, deep clean and handover. Final audit pack, certificates of destruction and recycling, and value-recovery statement.
Phased vs Accelerated vs Selective
Compare the three programmes side-by-side and pick the one that fits your timeline and risk tolerance.
| Feature | PhasedRecommended for most projects | Accelerated | Selective |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 4 to 24 weeks depending on estate size | 3 to 14 days | 1 to 4 weeks |
| Suits live production | Included | Partial | Included |
| Multi-team parallel work | Partial | Included | Not included |
| Rollback flexibility | Included | Not included | Included |
| Best for full closure | Included | Included | Not included |
| Best for partial refresh | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Hard deadline pressure | Partial | Included | Partial |
Not sure which fits? Book a free site survey and we'll recommend on the first call.
Everything you need, in one team
No subcontracted handovers. No mid-project team changes. One project manager, one engineering crew, one close-out pack.
Site Survey & Discovery
Full inventory, dependency mapping and risk assessment before a single cable is unplugged.
Equipment Logistics
Custom crating, GPS-tracked transport and tamper-evident seals from rack to processing.
Certified Data Destruction
NIST 800-88 wiping, degaussing or shredding with per-device certificates and chain-of-custody.
Infrastructure Strip-Out
Racks, cooling, UPS, PDUs, cable trays and fire suppression professionally removed.
Environmental Compliance
F-Gas refrigerant recovery, hazardous waste consignment notes, WEEE certificates issued.
Value Recovery
Test, refurbish and remarket viable equipment with transparent revenue share.
Photographic Audit Trail
Before, during and after photography of every rack and serial-numbered asset.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Complete close-out pack ready to share with auditors, the ICO or your board.
See exactly how we work
Disconnection
Cabling traced, photographed, and sequentially powered down by CSCS-carded engineers.
Secure Crating
Foam-lined crates and tamper-evident seals for every asset that leaves your site.
Floor Restoration
Deep cleaned and reinstated, ready for landlord handover or new fit-out.
From trading floors to council estates
Financial Services
Regulated decommissioning of trading floors, colocation suites and disaster-recovery sites.
Cloud Migration
Lift-and-shift retirement of on-prem racks alongside AWS, Azure and GCP migrations.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Rapid consolidation of duplicate estates after acquisitions, divestments or restructures.
Corporate & Public Sector
Multi-site enterprise estates, council facilities and government data centres across the UK and EU.
Sector playbooks: Financial services, NHS and healthcare and legal.
Common decommissioning questions
Often paired with decommissioning
IT Asset Disposition
Comprehensive ITAD lifecycle for general office and distributed estates.
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Secure Data Destruction
NIST 800-88 wiping, degaussing and physical destruction with certificates.
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Secure Office Relocation
Chain-of-custody IT moves for office or data centre relocations.
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Scoping the job yourself first? Our free Decommissioning Scope Builder turns 14 questions about your data centre, comms room or office into the compliance duties your answers trigger, a sequenced phase plan, the close-out pack to demand and a sweep list for the data-bearing devices people forget. No email required.
Available across the UK
Collection and certified processing from our Essex facility, with scheduled runs nationwide.
Before you choose a provider
Closing a data centre? Let's scope it together.
We'll walk the floor, build the inventory and give you a fixed plan, fixed price and fixed completion date, at no cost.
Same-week mobilisation · No obligation · UK-based, EU projects on request · Single point of contact