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Most people outside the industry picture decommissioning as a demolition job: pull the plugs, shred the drives, close the doors. Simple, right? Not exactly. Inside a real data center, retiring equipment isn’t a smash-and-grab. A single rack can generate four, five, even 600 dependent tickets. Servers, applications, cables, door access, escorts, power downs, and safety […]

Why the Future of IT Asset Disposition Lies in Specialized Ecosystems IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) isn’t what it used to be. With technology refresh cycles accelerating, e-waste volumes rising, and data security mandates tightening, the “dispose and destroy” model no longer holds up. Modern ITAD services simply require more precision and collaboration than ever before. […]

Ireland’s grid hit its limit earlier than anyone expected. In the scramble that followed, data centers learned something policymakers already knew: nothing sparks innovation like running out of options.   In January 2022, EirGrid stopped issuing new data center connections in Dublin. No timeline. No exceptions. Just a freeze. Over the previous decade, data center […]

How a leading personal computing company turned monthly waste into millions and why most data centers still pay to destroy what they could recover    In 2017, a major OEM was paying $350,000 a month to destroy used storage devices. Most worked perfectly, but because they had once held customer data, they were marked for […]

Why analytics-obsessed companies go blind on recovery   One of the world’s largest online marketplace had what looked like a simple problem.  Every month, hundreds of thousands of returned electronics flowed back to their warehouses. Headphones, gaming systems, security cameras, laptops… millions of dollars worth of products that customers couldn’t get to work properly.  The […]