What's your facility overpaying to run?
Power, connectivity, colo, hardware — the contracts that keep a data center running quietly drift above market.
What's recoverable across your stack.
Drag your numbers — buy-side benchmarks estimate what's recoverable, plus the demand-response revenue your load may be leaving on the table. Estimates are fine; we refine on the call.
Stale benchmark · grid-dependent
Without recent benchmarking, energy and connectivity drift above market. Grid-only operations carry rate and interconnect-delay exposure.
Procurement, PUE/cooling, onsite gen.
$1M~18% of energy spendTransport, transit, cross-connects, rates.
$306K~18% of contractsGear, refresh, security, managed services.
$177K~12% of spendHow we calculate this
Power & energy recovery comes from re-procurement, PUE/cooling efficiency, and onsite-generation options; grid-only sites carry the most upside. Connectivity & colo assumes ~18% recoverable on benchmarked transport, transit and cross-connect contracts. Hardware & managed scales with critical load (gear refresh, managed services, security, ITAD) at ~12% recovery. Benchmark recency is a multiplier (fresh 0.85× → never 1.32×). Demand-response revenue is shown separately for loads of 5 MW and up and is additive — it's income, not a cost cut. This is a model — the real number comes from your invoices.
Reliable onsite power at near-zero net cost — and a hedge against the next rate hike.
Grid interconnect can take years; onsite generation — natural gas, hybrid, fuel cell or renewable — deploys as bridge power in months, not years. Where federal and state incentives stack, a representative renewable unit nets out like this:
Illustrative; incentive programs are geography- and time-limited and are sized to each project. We model your actual load, eligibility, and payback before anything moves — and the analysis is vendor-funded, so it costs you nothing.
We do the work. The vendors pay for it.
Vendor-funded.
No retainer, no upfront cost — the work funds itself out of what we recover.
We run it end to end.
Discovery, the read-only audit, vendor RFPs, re-bid and cut-over — nothing changes in a live environment without your sign-off.
Real, recovered margin.
Benchmarked savings, tighter SLAs, fewer expensive renewals on autopilot.
There's a commission in every vendor deal, whether you see it or not. We put ours on the contract, in writing.
A complement, not a teardown. We don't rip out your carriers, your gear, or your team — we re-source what you already buy and benchmark what you already pay. Same environment, better terms.
"If it's free, what's the catch?"
If it's free, what's the catch?
Are you going to make us rip-and-replace?
We already have carrier reps and a procurement team.
How real is the "near-zero-cost" onsite power?
Is our data and contract information safe?
What's demand response, and is it worth it?
Worst case: you get a free, written benchmark of every line you pay — power, connectivity, colo, hardware — and you change nothing. That's the entire downside.
Talk to the expert who's run it.
30 minutes with a subject-matter operator, not a salesperson — the numbers you just built come with you. Vendor-funded, no cost.
Or pick the expert you want to dig in with — your estimate rides along in the email:
Ad Astra runs on Band of Hands — a curated B2B marketplace of vetted providers and transparent, vendor-funded economics. It's the engine behind every recommendation, and why the advice stays honest.