Frequently Asked Questions
Most IT equipment can be reused or recycled. Depending on age and condition, whole units and parts can be resold. If no financial value can be recovered, equipment is recycled. Recycling recovers commodity materials that can be used as feedstock in manufacturing new products.
Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) and Sims Metal, our sister company, work together on data center projects. We are unique in this industry in that we provide decommissioning and disposition solutions for IT equipment, electrical and mechanical systems.
SLS provides decommissioning and disposition services for IT equipment, while Sims Metal provides decommissioning and recycling of electrical and mechanical systems.
Working with Sims Metal, our services are particularly useful for complete data center shutdowns and is popular when decommissioning edge data centers.
SLS handles the servers and blades, storage devices, networking and electrical equipment listed above. We also provide secure hard drive destruction services.
Sims Metal processes HVAC equipment, diesel generators, air handlers, containers, server racks and cabling.
All work is performed by field technicians and site personnel to coordinate heavy equipment movement.
Today, there are sustainability calculators that empower you to quantify carbon emissions avoided by reusing and reselling data center equipment.
When embarking on a project as complex as decommissioning a data center, it is critical to have the right partner by your side. Six topics to help you find the right data center decommissioning vendor.
