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MeridianIXColocation / Interconnection

MeridianIX signed an 80kW+ anchor tenant into a 12kW-designed facility — the retrofit is on the critical path and cooling is the long-pole

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01What changed

MeridianIX announced an anchor AI tenant for its Manassas campus and, five days later, filed a permit amendment to expand the chilled-water plant.

02Why it matters to this account

The M&M colocation model shows retail/wholesale colos built for 8–12kW/rack cannot host 80kW+ AI racks without a thermal retrofit. The permit filing confirms they've reached the same conclusion. Cooling is the item on the critical path between 'signed' and 'live'.

03Why now

The tenant SLA date is fixed and public. Every week of thermal indecision compresses the retrofit schedule. The vendor decision is happening in the next few weeks, not next quarter.

04The pain / opportunity created

Schedule risk and SLA penalty exposure. Meridian needs a retrofit path that hits the tenant's live date without over-building the whole campus.

05What we can sell into it

CDU + direct-to-chip retrofit scoped to the anchor tenant's hall first, with a template to extend to the rest of the campus as density spreads.

06Who to speak to
  • 1

    Tom Ellison

    Economic buyer

    SVP, Data Center Operations

    On the hook for tenant SLA at densities the current plant can't cool.

  • 2

    Grace Lin

    Technical buyer

    Head of Design Engineering

    Choosing the retrofit path; CDU + direct-to-chip is a live option.

07What to say
✉Email — SVP Operations

Tom — congrats on the Manassas anchor. Going from a 12kW design to 80kW+ racks makes cooling the long-pole on the retrofit, and your SLA date doesn't move. We've done exactly this hall-first retrofit for colos under a fixed tenant date. Can we pressure-test your thermal schedule this week?

?Discovery questions

1) What's the tenant's live date? 2) Is the chilled-water expansion sized for one hall or the campus? 3) Who signs off on the retrofit design? 4) What's your current schedule risk on thermal specifically?

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MeridianIX: MeridianIX signed an 80kW+ anchor tenant into a 12kW-designed facility — the retrofit is on the critical path and cooling is the long-pole

Why now — The tenant SLA date is fixed and public. Every week of thermal indecision compresses the retrofit schedule. The vendor decision is happening in the next few weeks, not next quarter.

M&MData Center Colocation Market — Global Forecast to 2029

Tom — congrats on the Manassas anchor. Going from a 12kW design to 80kW+ racks makes cooling the long-pole on the retrofit, and your SLA date doesn't move. We've done exactly this hall-first retrofit for colos under a fixed tenant date. Can we pressure-test your thermal schedule this week?

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