Hyperscale Data Center Campus
Weekly schedule and cost forecasts on a campus where every week of delay was lost megawatts.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Industrial Infrastructure
- Our role
- Schedule & cost forecasting
- Scale
- 96 MW
- Completed
- 2025
Weekly forecasting on a data center campus where every week of delay was measured in lost megawatts.
The developer had customers waiting for capacity, and each week of delay on a data hall meant megawatts that could not be leased. Electrical gear and cooling equipment had long lead times, utility power dates were outside the developer’s control, and the monthly reporting cycle was too slow to act on. Leadership wanted to know every week when power would be on and what the final cost would be.
The approach.
- 01
A weekly forecasting cycle
We moved the schedule and cost forecast to a weekly cycle, with a fixed data date and a forecast review every Monday.
- 02
Equipment tracked to the hall
Generators, switchgear, UPS and cooling units were tracked from factory slot to energization for each data hall.
- 03
Megawatts on the schedule
Every hall’s ready-for-service milestone was tied to its capacity, so delay was reported in megawatts as well as days.
- 04
EAC with real commitments
The estimate at completion was rebuilt weekly from commitments and trends, not from the original budget.
The outcome.
“On a data center, the schedule is the revenue forecast. We reported delay in megawatts so nobody could ignore it.”
Forecasting lead, KonradBeck
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