Data centre relocation is racks out of one facility and back into another, cabled the way they were. Our own people do it, in our own vehicles, anywhere in the UK and Europe, from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, and we cover London and Heathrow. In August 2024 we migrated eight racks with a day team and a night team.
Eight racks out of one London data centre and into another, with the cabling traced first and pre-cabled at the other end.
A lab and a comms room, about 1,000U in all, moved in January 2026 and insured at £4.5m.
A large server relocation, done out of hours from Friday night into Saturday in an 18t truck.
A 2am decommission in Slough, with a crew in Manchester re-racking the same kit, already pre-cabled and labelled.
De-racking dozens of 4U servers weighing 80 kg each, with a server lift that reaches 2.5 m.
People use it for two jobs. IT teams mean copying data and applications to a new platform.
For us it's the physical move: the racks, servers, switches and cabling, from one facility to another. If your project has both, your engineers look after the data and we look after the kit.
We start with a survey. If we haven't been to the site, a walk-through video plus photos and rack elevations will do, and we've worked in most data centres in the UK and Europe, so some we already know.
Then we trace and audit every cable and agree a patching schedule, so the racks go back as they came out. You get one person to deal with, and we'll set up Teams calls with your team and the sites.
Every rack and unit is photographed and labelled before anything is unplugged. Kit comes out in the agreed order and goes into shock mount flight cases, anti-static cases or onto pallets. It travels in our own vehicles with our own crew.
Where the destination allows, we pre-cable ahead of time. On bigger moves we split into teams, so one is de-racking while another is racking up.
Your engineers power up and test. We stay if you want us to, tidy away the packing and sign the job off with you.
In the order the work happens:
Most data centres won't let a crew in without paperwork, so we get it done early. That usually means RAMS for the move, proof of insurance, and names of who's coming. We write RAMS for both sites if you need them, and there's a free Server Move RAMS Template to start from.
We're ISO 9001:2015 certified and members of the Road Haulage Association. Our public liability is no less than £2 million, and cover for your kit is arranged for each job to its value, up to £0.5m without referral. For larger moves we can arrange more.
Access is usually the slow part, not the van. Loading bay slots, permits, lifts that are too small, a power-down window that's only open a few hours. We ask about all of these on the first call.
It's the check you do before a move, so nobody finds a surprise on the day. We trace every cable and note what's in each rack and where it plugs in.
We then write a patching schedule, and photograph and label every rack and unit. After the move, the same schedule is used to re-rack, so the racks match what you had.
There isn't a standard price. It depends on the number of racks, the floors and lifts at each end, the distance and the time window. Nights and weekends can change the price, depending on the job.
Our IT relocation cost guide goes through each factor. Send us the rack list and we'll quote.
Yes, and most are. We work to the window your building gives us.
Yes. We work from Fleet and cover Heathrow and London data centres. For more, see IT relocation in London.
Yes. We go by road across the UK and Europe, and further afield by air through approved partners.
We run our own ATA carnet. In 2026 two of us took 300+ pieces of equipment to Frankfurt under it.
We don't move your data or configure systems, and we don't repair kit. Your engineers do the power-up, and we can stay while they do. Disposal of old kit is our separate IT asset disposal service.
Start with our IT relocation checklist. It goes through the weeks before the move.
Tell us the racks, the two sites and the dates, and we'll come back with questions or a quote.
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