A giant Manhattan facility, on a lease clock
A global high-tech information company decided to relocate its 400,000 square foot data center on West Street in Manhattan to Orangeburg, NY. The company’s lease required it to dismantle and remove almost all of the infrastructure that supported the old data center.
On recommendations from several different sources, the company engaged Quantum Technology to execute the decommission and monetize the assets. (The company’s privacy policy restricts advertising its name, but it will provide a reference and recommendation of Quantum upon request.)
The scale of the site
De-energize, verify, dismantle, recover
Quantum was responsible for the de-energization and verification of the electrical systems — safe-off, lock and tag out — before any removal began. A 30–40-person crew then worked through the facility, decommissioning, removing and selling or recycling the full build-out.
That included 1,680 jars of wet-cell lead-acid batteries with their disconnects and racking, hundreds of thousands of pounds of feeder cable, 92 Liebert PDUs, 27 Liebert UPS systems, switchgear lineups and breaker cabinets, DC plants and rectifiers, 1,800 data cabinets, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel scrap.
The site held 1,680 jars — 667,200 lbs — of wet-cell lead-acid batteries, all removed with their disconnects and racking and routed to recycling.
Removed, sold or recycled
A full-facility decommission, measured in tons.
A clean exit and real money back
The lease obligation was met, the assets were monetized, and the client came away with substantial revenue.
Substantial revenue returned
By monetizing the assets rather than scrapping them, the decommission handed the client substantial revenue.
Handled safely at scale
A 30–40-person crew de-energized, verified and removed a 15 MW facility — including 667,200 lbs of batteries.
Lease obligation met
Almost all of the supporting infrastructure was removed, satisfying the West Street lease so the relocation could close out.
From the project
Relocating or retiring a large data center?
We take on full-scale, multi-megawatt decommissions — de-energizing safely, meeting lease deadlines, and turning the assets into revenue instead of cost.