OX-RESInsights and resources
Technical guides, playbooks and market briefings, from choosing a site to running it for a decade. Written by the engineers who design, build and operate these facilities, with interactive tools you can use as you read.
LatestTechnical guideBuild & Delivery
How a hall is deployed to a capacity date: the fabrics a GPU pod runs on, the physical layer from 400G to 1.6T, the link budget, the deployment line, waves and crews, and the evidence that has to exist at handover.
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Filter by where you are in the lifecycle or by topic, or search for a term. Each guide is free to read, vendor-neutral on the engineering, and ends with how we help.
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Buyer’s guide
A vendor-neutral way to evaluate a colocation or data centre provider: tiers and redundancy, power and cooling, connectivity, compliance and commercials.
Strategy guide
Residency, sovereignty and localisation, the laws driving them from GDPR and Schrems II to the US CLOUD Act, and the spectrum from public cloud to owned infrastructure.
Technical guide
Whether an existing hall can take AI workloads: the four walls, what AI-ready requires, the retrofit path, and a readiness checker that sizes your gap.
Technical guide
Why rack densities pass 130 kW, the cooling ladder from air to immersion, the 800GbE fabric and the physical design, with a density and cooling calculator.
Technical guide
White and grey space, aisles and containment, raised floor or slab, and designing for density and change, with a hall planner and a live 3D model.
Technical guide
Why air runs out, the methods from rear-door to immersion, the facility loop and CDUs, efficiency and heat reuse, and bringing liquid into an air hall.
Technical guide
The cabling hierarchy, copper and fibre reach, topologies and the Ethernet roadmap from 10G to 1.6T, with reach and roadmap explorers.
Technical guide
From an empty shell to a live data hall: design, power and cooling, white space, cabling, commissioning from L1 to L5, and handover, with a phase explorer.
Technical guide
How a hall is deployed to a capacity date: the fabrics, the physical layer from 400G to 1.6T, the link budget, the deployment line, waves and the evidence at handover, with four planning tools.
Migration playbook
The seven stages from audit to handover, how the physical move runs and what de-risks it, with a process explorer and a rack-relocation animation.
Market briefing
What changed under Broadcom, the real cost impact, the credible alternatives and how to plan a move, with a cost calculator.
Operations guide
The operational stack, what the nines really cost in downtime, and the disciplines and incident response that keep an estate running, whoever runs it.
Operations guide
What operations covers, how to read a response SLA, the five-tier service model and a weighted self-assessment that shows which gaps cost the most.
Technical guide
Where every device is, how it is connected, its status and lifecycle; rack, port and panel capacity; and a full audit trail of every change.
Sustainability guide
The efficiency levers, 100% sustainable energy across EMEA at competitive rates, and reporting, with a PUE explorer and an energy calculator.
Compliance guide
Clear, purge and destroy, drive-shredding sizes for HDD and SSD, and the standards and UK regulations behind compliant, defensible disposal.
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Calculators, checkers, explorers and live previews from across the guides. Each opens at the tool, with the guide around it for context.
