How the two platforms fit together
Where is the opportunity, and what evidence supports it?
- Qualified supply, demand signals and competitive pipeline
- Transmission mapping and documented connection milestones
- Electricity price benchmarks and construction cost context
- Market research, with traceable sources and explicit confidence levels
The handover
An agreed input package, with every unknown recorded as an assumption rather than a number.
- Site boundary and land status
- Target IT load and phasing
- Rack density and redundancy
- Cooling constraints
- Grid position, stated plainly
- Required deliverables
What concept supports it, and what must be challenged next?
- IT load as the starting metric, facility load as a result
- Electrical and mechanical single lines, equipment sizing
- Redundancy proven by tripping a unit and re-routing the load
- Test fit on the real plot, 3D model and preliminary BoQ
The decision
Proceed, resize, re-phase — or reject it early, which is also a result.
Each company scopes and invoices its own services.Technology partners
A technology partner operates a platform that covers a stage of the data center chain next to ours. Each company contracts and invoices its own services, and we work together opportunity by opportunity rather than under any exclusive arrangement.
Technology partner
PowerlandMap · Market, site and power intelligence
PowerlandMap is a data center market intelligence platform covering qualified supply, transmission and grid context, anonymised demand signals, electricity price benchmarks and development opportunities, using traceable sources and explicit confidence levels, with coverage and evidence depth varying by record and geography.
It answers the question that comes before design: where is the opportunity, and what evidence supports it? It keeps the distinctions that matter visible — requested grid capacity is not reserved capacity, and reserved capacity is not energised capacity — so a brief arrives with its assumptions stated rather than assumed.
- Qualified supply, demand signals and competitive pipeline
- Transmission mapping and documented connection milestones
- Electricity price benchmarks and construction cost context
- Market research and comparative market studies
How a partner-introduced project runs
- Evidence. The partner qualifies the market, the site and the power position, and records what is still unverified.
- Brief. Those findings become an input package: site boundary and land status, target IT load and phasing, rack density, redundancy, cooling constraints and required deliverables. Every unknown is carried as an assumption, not converted into a number.
- Concept. DCtoB sizes the power and cooling from the IT load, lays the facility out on the real plot, draws the single line diagrams, tests the redundancy and counts a preliminary bill of quantities.
- Written proposal. Scope, deliverables, turnaround and fee are confirmed in writing before any work begins.
What DCtoB contributes
Outputs are conceptual-stage deliverables for review and validation by qualified engineers before detailed design, procurement or construction. Redundancy and uptime testing is conceptual modelling of the design as configured — not an Uptime Institute certification, a commissioning result or a guarantee of operational availability.
Request a PowerlandMap quote
If you are working with DCtoB and need the market, site and power evidence behind a project, we can introduce you to PowerlandMap and register the opportunity so the two sides line up from the start. Register through the link below and your site, power position and design brief are qualified before anything is quoted.
Registration does not guarantee a discount. Any preferential condition must be agreed and confirmed by PowerlandMap in writing, and pricing is determined case by case in a written PowerlandMap quotation.
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Become a partner
Platform operators, engineering specialists, advisory firms and industry organisations can propose a collaboration. Tell us which kind of partnership fits and what you cover, and we will come back to you.
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