GPU Site Readiness Review, California
For California property owners, landlords and operators deciding whether a building or a room can host GPU servers or a colocation business. Most older rooms fail on power or cooling, not floor space. I tell you which way yours will go, and what the numbers are, before you spend money on drawings.
Two fixed fees. Prices are in US dollars.
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Start with the quick assessment if you are not sure the site is worth a full review. If you go on, the full $1,150 is credited.
$1,150 fixed fee
A one-hour walkthrough of the site, a look at your power bills and specs, and a one-page memo.
The full $1,150 is credited toward the full review.
Book a call$4,850 fixed fee, one room of up to 5 racks
A site walk, a written look at every system that decides whether the room works, a cost model, and a readout.
Larger sites are quoted. Travel is billed at cost.
Book a callTravel is billed at cost and agreed before the visit. The quick assessment can be done remotely from your bills, specs and a video walkthrough.
Scope
This is advisory work. I look at the site, read the bills and specs, build the numbers and give you a clear answer with the risks ranked.
It is not electrical, mechanical or fire-protection design. Those are done and signed off by licensed trades and engineers, and the review tells you what to ask them to price. Legal work on a colocation agreement and its SLA can be referred to a data center contracts lawyer.
The checklist I work from is public. Read the readiness checklist for California property owners and, if the question is what private AI costs once the room exists, what private AI costs per seat.
Property in Ontario? See the Ontario version.
FAQ
There are two fixed-fee options, priced in US dollars. The quick assessment is $1,150: a 1-hour walkthrough, a review of the power bills and specs, and a one-page go or no-go memo. The full readiness review is $4,850 and covers one room of up to 5 racks. Larger sites are quoted.
Four things decide it, usually in this order: spare electrical capacity at the service, whether the room can be cooled around the clock at the density you want, how many physically separate fiber paths reach the building, and whether fire protection and backup power can be brought up to what tenants expect. The quick assessment checks these and gives you a go or no-go.
It depends on the hardware. A legacy rack was often designed for roughly 5 to 10 kW. A four-GPU server built on RTX PRO 6000 class cards is roughly 3 kW at full load, and a single NVIDIA DGX B200 system is rated at about 14.3 kW. Racks at the top end of the market run around 120 kW and need liquid cooling. For an older room, 6 to 12 kW per rack is a realistic target.
Possibly, but the rules are strict and depend on your utility and your tenants. PG&E, for example, has a tariff rule on supply to separate premises and submetering that limits when a landlord may charge nonresidential tenants for power, and California requires that submetered tenants pay no more than the utility rate. Confirm what applies with your utility and a lawyer before you quote a per-kWh price. The full review maps the question for your site.
Yes. If you go on to the full readiness review, the full $1,150 is credited toward it. The quick assessment memo arrives within 3 business days of the walkthrough. The full readiness review readout is delivered within 2 weeks of the site walk.
Yes. Travel is billed at cost and agreed before the visit. If travel is not practical, the quick assessment can be done remotely from your power bills, specs and a video walkthrough.
No. The review tells you whether the site is viable, what the numbers are and what to price. Electrical, mechanical and fire-protection work is done and signed off by licensed trades and engineers, and I can help you write the brief for them. Colocation agreement and SLA work can be referred to a data center contracts lawyer.
Book a call with Jason Sun. Tell me about the building and what you are thinking of hosting, and we will pick the right option.
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