Capital Expenditure Analysis

Data Center CAPEX Calculator

Calculate comprehensive construction costs with detailed breakdown of electrical, cooling, civil, and infrastructure components

Data Center CAPEX Calculator — capital expenditure breakdown for construction, electrical, cooling, and infrastructure

Building a data center is not a spreadsheet exercise — it's a bet worth millions where every wrong assumption compounds.

A 10 MW facility can swing between $80M and $200M+ depending on cooling architecture, redundancy tier, seismic zone, and dozens of other variables most cost models quietly ignore. This calculator won't replace a detailed engineering estimate — but it will give you a defensible starting point in under 60 seconds. Adjust IT load, pick your cooling strategy, set your redundancy level, and watch how each decision moves the total. Use it to sanity-check vendor quotes, benchmark across regions, or build a rough business case before the first shovel hits the ground.

12+ configurable variables Location factor adjustments Tier I – IV redundancy 4 cooling architectures

General-purpose estimate — actual costs depend on site-specific engineering, local regulations, and procurement strategy. Need a deeper analysis? Let's talk.

Cost Breakdown
Total CAPEX ?
Total CAPEX
Capital Expenditure - Total upfront investment required to build the data center including construction, equipment, and commissioning.
$12,500,000
Cost per kW IT Load ?
Cost per kW
Industry benchmark metric: Total CAPEX divided by IT Load capacity. Typical ranges: $8,000-15,000/kW for Tier III, $15,000-25,000/kW for Tier IV.
 PRO $12,500/kW
Tier Classification ?
Uptime Tier
Uptime Institute classification based on redundancy level: Tier I (N) = 99.671%, Tier II = 99.741%, Tier III (N+1) = 99.982%, Tier IV (2N) = 99.995%.
Tier III
Estimated PUE ?
Power Usage Effectiveness
PUE = Total Facility Power ÷ IT Equipment Power. Industry average: 1.55. Efficient DC: 1.2-1.4. Best-in-class: <1.2. Lower is better.
1.45
Expected Uptime ?
Expected Uptime
Percentage of time the facility is expected to be operational per year. 99.982% = ~1.6 hours downtime/year. 99.995% = ~26 minutes/year.
99.982%
Annual Energy ?
Annual Energy Cost
Estimated yearly electricity cost based on IT Load × PUE × 8,760 hours × electricity rate. This is an OPEX cost, not included in CAPEX.
 PRO
$1.2M
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