By Andy Pedley, Director. Updated October 12, 2026.
IT relocation cost depends on how many racks or units are moving, how hard the access is at both ends, how far it goes, and whether it has to happen at night or at a weekend. There's no standard price, and we don't publish a price list. We quote each job from your rack list.
How much is moving. The number of racks or units, and how heavy they are. A fully populated rack takes more people and kit than an empty one. Some 4U servers weigh 80 kg, so you'll want a server lift.
Access at both ends. Floors, lifts, stairs, loading bays. A fully populated rack going up stairs needs a stair climber.
A lift that's too small means kit is lifted out in pieces. A loading bay slot that's missed means waiting.
The window. Data centres and offices tend to give you a few hours. Nights and weekends can change the price, depending on the job. A short window means more people to do the same job.
Distance. Two buildings in the same city cost less than a trip across the UK. Across borders, you'll have customs paperwork and an ATA carnet.
How it's packed. Shock mount flight cases, anti-static cases or pallets. Racks can travel built, or kit can come out and go back in.
How much work we do besides the move. A cable trace and audit, photos, labels, RAMS, serial numbers recorded, pre-staging in our warehouse, power-up at the new end. Some clients want all of it, some just want the transport.
Cover. Cover for your kit is arranged for each job, to its value, up to £0.5m without referral. Tell us what it's worth so we can arrange the right level.
What happens to the old kit. If it isn't going, IT asset disposal is a separate job.
We don't put prices on these. They show how the factors above add up.
In June 2024 we relocated 10 racks, 400U of equipment in all, inside a 24 hour window. The kit was shut down in phases, de-cabled and de-racked, then packed into flight cases ready for our trucks the next morning. This is how a window that tight shapes the job.
Moving eight racks between sites in London took months of planning and one carefully split migration day. We surveyed both sites, traced and audited every cable, pre-cabled the destination, then ran separate teams for day and night de-rack and re-rack, cable retrieval, and patching and support.
We moved more than 200 servers out of Amsterdam to nine data centres in six countries in five days. Ten engineers, five flights, one ATA carnet for our kit and one very good customs agent got the servers to their new homes, with only minor glitches, mainly over access.
There isn't a standard price. It depends on the number of racks, access at both ends, distance, the time window and how much work is done besides the move.
A data centre move is planned over weeks. Send us your rack list and we'll quote it.
The same factors apply, on a smaller scale. Server rooms are often moved at a weekend. Tell us the number of racks, the two addresses and the window.
It depends on whether the rack travels built or is emptied first, how far it's going and what the access is like. If it's heavy, or it's going up stairs, we'll need the right kit and people.
It depends on the job. Most data centre moves are done at night or at a weekend, and we plan the quote around the window you have.
Cover is arranged for each job to the value of your equipment, up to £0.5m without referral. Tell us the value when you ask for a quote.
The rack list, or the number of racks and units, both addresses, the dates, and anything about access. See our IT relocation checklist.
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