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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 […]

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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 […]

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IRVING, Texas, May 7, 2025 – Reconext, a global leader in repair, refurbishment, recovery, and remarketing solutions for electronic devices, announced today its role in a large-scale data center decommissioning project for a major global technology company. This significant project involved the removal and secure processing of 2,500 AI servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs and […]

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Digital Chain of Custody Done Right Chain of custody has always been rife with “acceptable inefficiencies”—a polite industry term for blind spots between verification points where assets effectively disappear from secure oversight. Companies have had to tolerate this reality for decades—these gaps between checkpoints where custody becomes a matter of faith rather than fact. These […]

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