Qualifying asset categories
Asset submissions are evaluated across three distinct categories, with the actual status of each asset to be evidenced:
- Operating facilities: built, operational data centres where operating status, customer contracts, occupied IT load or vacancy must be set out.
- Powered shells: completed or partially developed building envelopes where structural readiness, available site power and the actual status of utility agreements must be demonstrated.
- Development sites: land parcels intended for critical infrastructure where planning status, site boundaries and grid connection progress must be documented. Substation proximity and an initial grid application do not establish secured power.
Data Centre Axis reviews these fundamentals through an advisory process before any introduction is agreed.
Initial information and technical evidence
Initial submissions must remain non-sensitive. To evaluate suitability through DCA advisory, initial enquiries should provide:
- Ownership or clear authority to represent the asset.
- Intended transaction structure: full asset disposal, partial equity recapitalisation or joint-venture funding.
- Target transaction timing.
- Exact market, municipality and planning jurisdiction.
- Current development status or operational profile.
- Power capacity: stating site power versus IT load.
Information control and confidentiality
Detailed materials such as technical schematics, lease registers, customer lists and connection agreements should not be shared at first contact. Data Centre Axis reviews confidential records only following an agreed scope. Proprietary records are disclosed only under that agreed engagement.
Engagement and next steps
Following an initial submission, the DCA team reviews the proposed opportunity. Formal representation follows appointment and an agreed scope. Where appropriate, Data Centre Axis facilitates introductions through its private deal network only where both parties agree. Commercial terms, asset valuations and transaction contracts remain between the transacting parties. Owners seeking broader context on data centre transactions can consult buying and selling data centres.