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 "id": "9.07",
 "slug": "prefab-modular-data-centers-and-power-cooling-skids",
 "url": "/parts/building-shell-site-and-construction/prefab-modular-data-centers-and-power-cooling-skids",
 "name": "Prefab / modular data centers & power/cooling skids",
 "qualifiers": null,
 "layer": {
  "id": 9,
  "name": "Building shell, site & construction"
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 "parent_id": null,
 "children": [
  "9.07a"
 ],
 "summary": "Factory-built modular data center units and prefabricated power and cooling skids that are assembled off-site and installed as complete, pre-integrated blocks.",
 "description_md": "Instead of building power distribution and cooling systems entirely on-site from the components in Layers 5 through 8, this layer packages them into pre-engineered, factory- tested modules — power skids, cooling skids, and in some cases entire containerized compute units — that arrive at the site largely complete and are craned into place, cutting down the on-site labor scope handled by Layers 9.04 and 9.05.\nAI campuses' appetite for repeatable, fast-to-deploy capacity favors this approach: a prefabricated module built on a standard design can be manufactured in parallel with site and shell construction rather than sequentially after it, and factory conditions allow tighter quality control on the high-density power and liquid-cooling systems AI racks require. Investors should watch whether a given developer's design standardizes around a particular vendor's modular product, since that creates a qualification and single-vendor dependency similar to other parts of this taxonomy, and whether module manufacturing capacity itself becomes a scheduling constraint as adoption grows.",
 "ai_delta": "AI campuses' need for fast, repeatable deployment favors factory-built modular power and cooling systems that can be manufactured in parallel with site and shell construction.",
 "bottleneck_status": null,
 "scale_tiers": [
  "hyperscale_building",
  "ai_campus",
  "gw_class"
 ],
 "density_modes": [
  "hybrid",
  "liquid"
 ],
 "scale_notes": "Adoption is a design choice rather than a function of size alone — used where speed of deployment and repeatability matter most, which skews toward hyperscale and larger AI campuses, but not universal even there.",
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  "shell"
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