A GPU cluster draws many times the power of a traditional server rack, gives off heat that air alone can't move, and needs a network fabric built for thousands of GPUs talking at once. The building has to be designed around that from the slab up.
Traditional datacenterAI factory
Rack density
Traditional5–15kW per rack
AI factory40–130+kW per rack
Cooling
TraditionalAir, with hot and cold aisles
AI factoryLiquid: direct-to-chip and rear-door heat exchange
Network
Traditional10/40G uplinks
AI factory400G/800G InfiniBand and Ethernet GPU fabrics
Fiber
TraditionalDuplex links at modest counts
AI factoryHigh-count MPO/MTP trunks, many times the strands per rack
Power
TraditionalStandard PDUs and UPS
AI factoryBusway, high-amperage PDUs and UPS sized for AI load
Hyperscale stack
AI-ready, slab to GPU.
Five layers have to work as one before the first training job runs. Select a layer to see what Netrise delivers.
One team across every layer, so capacity lands on schedule.
Case study · Leading AI company (client confidential)
16 colocation sites. One Netrise standard.
A leading AI company needed GPU infrastructure racked, cabled and brought online in colocation facilities across the country, fast and the same way every time. Netrise has worked with them since 2025, and the work continues today.
Netrise delivered the first site, wrote the standard operating procedure behind it, and the client made that procedure its standard for every site that followed. Within six months the program grew to 16 colocation sites.
Rack and stack built to the client’s rack elevations
Every connection cabled and labeled to the client’s patch matrix
Live remote turn-up sessions with the client’s engineers
One repeatable SOP, so every site is delivered the same way
16sitescolocation sites in the program
6monthsfrom the first site to a 16-site program
1SOPNetrise’s procedure, adopted as the client’s standard for every site
2025– todaya continuous partnership, with ongoing commitments
Modular & edge AI
Built offsite. Live onsite.
The fastest way to bring AI capacity online is to do most of the work before anything ships.
Prefab rack integration
Racks and pods are cabled, labeled and tested in staging, then ship ready to plug in.
Containerized AI pods
Edge GPU capacity at plants, hospitals, stadiums and warehouses, connected and certified on site.
AI retrofits
Existing halls upgraded for AI: higher density, liquid-ready cooling and a new GPU fabric.
StageIntegrate offsite
TestEvery link
ShipReady to plug in
ConnectPower, fiber, fabric
CertifyLive and documented
Why you need it
A datacenter is more than racks.
Power distribution, uninterruptible power supplies, ventilation and cooling, fire suppression, backup generators and external network connections all have to work as one. When one piece is wrong, everything downstream feels it.
What you get
One team for the whole build.
Power, UPS, cooling and fire suppression, designed and installed together
GPU and TPU halls laid out for AI workloads
Modular builds that go up fast
Built to ANSI/TIA-942, from Tier 1 to Tier 4
Every port and strand tested, labeled and certified to ANSI/TIA standards
As-built documentation for every site, and managed support if you want it
With Netrise / Without it
What changes when it's done right.
PowerUtility, generator, UPS and PDUs are designed and installed as one system, so a utility drop rides through.One failed component or a utility blip takes the racks down.
CoolingCooling and airflow are sized to the real heat load, including dense GPU racks for AI.Hot spots throttle servers and shorten the life of the hardware.
Fire suppressionSuppression protects the room without destroying the equipment inside it.A small fire, or the wrong response to it, becomes a total loss.
CablingEvery port and strand is tested, labeled and certified to ANSI/TIA standards.Untraceable cabling turns every change into an outage risk.
DocumentationAs-built documentation for every site, ready for audits and future expansion.Nobody knows what is connected to what when something breaks.
Enterprise & colocation, built to the tier you need
ANSI/TIA-942 rates a datacenter by redundancy. Select a tier and watch the single-line power diagram, from the utility to the racks, gain backups and a second path.
Tier 1 Basic capacity
Utility, transformer, generator, UPS and PDU on a single path, with no spare units. Any failure or maintenance takes the racks down.
Tier 2 Redundant components
Spare UPS modules and generators (N+1) are added, so one unit can fail. Power still reaches the racks along one distribution path.
Tier 3 Concurrently maintainable
An alternate distribution path with its own UPS and PDU feeds dual-corded racks. Any component can be serviced while the racks keep running.
Tier 4 Fault tolerant
Two fully independent, simultaneously active paths, from separate utility feeds to the racks, each able to carry the whole load. A single fault causes no interruption.
Tier 11 path · no spare capacity
Single-line power diagram
Every kind of datacenter
AI datacenters
High-performance GPUs and TPUs, software-defined networking and built-in security, laid out for parallel processing and low latency.
Enterprise
Owned and operated by your company, often on your own campus, for your own users.
Managed services
Operated by a third party; you lease equipment and infrastructure instead of buying it.
Colocation
You rent space and bring servers, storage and firewalls; the facility supplies building, cooling, bandwidth and security.
Cloud and hyperscale
Off-premises facilities from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud, sized for global workloads.
