Industries
The same honesty, six kinds of rack
A mining container and a broadcast studio both deserve metering you can invoice against. These are the six environments we engineer for — each with its own load profile, duty cycle and pain threshold.
Find your environment
Data Center & Colocation
Downtime runs past $7,500 per minute and 57% of incidents cost more than $100K. Outlet-level metering turns both into manageable numbers.
See the playbook →Edge Computing & Micro DC
A single truck roll costs $600-1,200. Remote switching pays for itself the first time a tower reboots itself back online.
See the playbook →Crypto Mining & HPC
Power is 75-85% of opex. Per-outlet kWh shows which shelves earn and which ones coast — at break-even near $0.07/kWh.
See the playbook →Broadcast & Media
200 devices at 0.75mA leakage each will trip a 6mA GFCI without sequencing. Ordered startup plus surge tolerance keeps studios live.
See the playbook →Telecom & 5G Cabinets
A remote terminal unit costs ~$700 while an unplanned site visit costs more. SNMP-addressable power makes unmanned sites viable.
See the playbook →Industrial & Lab
Regulated environments want audit trails: 15-minute billing-grade logs, IEC 60309 inputs and 100% outgoing test records.
See the playbook →Quick match
Environment → recommended grade
| Environment | Leading pain | Recommended grade | Typical feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data center row | Tenant billing accuracy | Outlet-metered / switched+OM | 32-63A 3φ WYE |
| Edge / micro DC | Unattended recovery | Switched | 16-32A 1φ |
| Mining container | Opex per shelf | Outlet-metered | 63A 3φ or split 32A |
| Broadcast rack | Inrush & leakage | Switched with sequencing | 16-32A 1φ |
| Telecom cabinet | Remote site control | Switched, wide-temp | 32A 1φ / DC plant |
| Industrial & lab | Audit evidence | Metered, logged | IEC 60309 16-63A |
The table is a starting point, not a cage: colocations routinely mix outlet-metered rows with switched service racks, and mining operators often standardize on one 63A three-phase SKU to simplify spares. What matters is that the metering grade matches who needs the data — facilities, finance, or the tenant — and that the switching grade matches who is allowed to touch the load.
Three questions usually settle it: Who reads the meter, who is allowed to cut power, and what feed arrives at the rack? Answer those and the grade picks itself. The selection guides walk the full decision tree, or send your load list and an engineer will map it within 48 hours.
Tell us where the rack lives
Environment, load and uptime expectations — we will answer with a grade, a spec sheet and a price.
