Your largest risk is not the design. It is delivery.
When you anchor a campus, you are committing roadmap, budget, and customer obligations to capacity that does not yet exist. The design can be sound and the counterparty sincere, and the capacity can still arrive late, arrive under-powered, or energize into a density your next hardware generation has already outgrown. HampTex exists to take that delivery risk off the table, whether you engage the firm directly or contract with a developer the firm advises.
Independent verification, or milestone transparency.
Assess capacity before you sign
Engage HampTex directly for an independent Six Forces Assessment of the capacity you are considering. You receive a Risk Profile Score and the Shield Assessment Report on whether that capacity will energize on its stated timeline, produced under the Independent Assessor posture, with no financial interest in the project. An unconflicted read before you commit. See the Shield assessment →
See the milestones while it is built
When HampTex advises the developer you are contracting with, committed customers receive visibility into the live milestone tracker, including the material gates governing power, long-lead equipment, and energization. Delivery status is shared, not asserted, so you are not blind between signature and first energized capacity.
The three risks an anchor customer actually carries.
Power & schedule
The single hardest thing to secure in this market is a live interconnection. HampTex tracks every milestone from site control through energization, with the material gates on power and long-lead equipment, transformer lead times now run 24 to 36 months, given heightened review and a tighter service level.
Density & obsolescence
Rack power has climbed from roughly 40 kW to 120 to 140 kW today, with roadmaps pointing to 250 to 900 kW and a shift to 800 VDC by 2027. The firm's obsolescence diligence and the Factory Model staged-block approach guard against energizing into a design your next generation has already outgrown.
Term-of-agreement viability
Confidence is not only about commissioning day. The assessment considers whether the facility remains viable and non-obsolete across the life of the agreement you are signing, not merely at first power.
What your team actually evaluates.
A hyperscale diligence team works through nine domains, from power to delivery readiness, and discounts a site the moment an answer is asserted rather than evidenced. HampTex builds toward those answers from site control onward, so the diligence agenda is met before it is sent.
Power & delivery
The gating variables. Stated capacity that is not yet contracted or energized is the most common overstatement, and a greenfield interconnection in a constrained market can add 24 to 60 months. Long-lead equipment, not construction, usually sets the true schedule, so power status, time-to-energize, and procurement of transformers, switchgear, and generators are tracked as material gates.
The physical envelope
Whether the building supports your density today and across the term. Air-only designs cannot carry high-density AI; liquid readiness is essential, point loads from liquid racks can require structural reinforcement, and a single fiber path is a recognized deal-breaker. The design is assessed against your forward technology envelope, not just today's spec.
Compliance & sustainability
Baseline requirements, not differentiators. Missing certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2, the workload-specific frameworks), unmet data-residency rules, and permitting exposure on water, air, and noise are all common late-stage failure points. Carbon and water reporting must withstand the audit your own public commitments invite.
Deal & counterparty
Where your leverage applies. Your primary protection against delivery failure is milestone-based commitments, delay remedies, and step-in rights if gates are missed, backed by a funded, credible counterparty. A funding gap mid-build is an existential delivery risk; SLAs that are not validated at commissioning are unenforceable promises.
Six forces, eighty-one milestones, made transparent.
The same proprietary framework that underwrites the firm's independent assessment governs the milestone tracking a committed customer sees, single-homed, dependency-ordered milestones from site control to commissioning, with the highest-stakes gates held to a tighter standard. See the framework →