Data Center Decommissioning in Phoenix

Decommissioning is the removal and disposal of retired hardware from a data centre. In Phoenix the equipment sits in buildings that other companies own and run. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator and does not own any of them. PhoenixNAP stands on E. University Dr. A project starts with a request from the customer that names the racks, the equipment and the target dates. Reboot Monkey then agrees the scope with the customer: which servers, switches and storage arrays leave, and in what order. Removal is scheduled with the customer in advance, including any out-of-hours or weekend windows the facility requires. On the agreed day a Reboot Monkey engineer works in the customer's rack under the operator's site rules, and a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for the customer site. Because the facility operator controls the building, its power, cooling and access policy, access arrangements are settled before the work date and not on the day.

Data centres in Phoenix, ordered by the number of networks present:

Decommissioning in Phoenix covers the physical removal of retired equipment and the records that prove it was done. Digital Realty PHX10 (120 E Van Buren) stands on East Van Buren Street. The scope and the proof the customer receives are listed below.

A decommissioning project is often only one part of a wider change in the customer's footprint. CyrusOne Phoenix stands on South Ellis Road. Reboot Monkey sells the other services that surround a move out of a rack, so one operator can handle the removal and the work on either side of it. Server migration moves equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. Rack and stack installs, mounts and cables new hardware. Remote hands carries out physical tasks on the customer's instruction, such as cable checks and visual checks, and smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge. Hardware monitoring of the customer's servers and network equipment is handled by the Reboot Monkey NOC. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job, so the quote reflects the actual racks and equipment involved.

These terms apply in every facility in Phoenix where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Customers with equipment in more than one US market can plan the same removal process across sites. The same approach to asset recording and logged removal applies in each city, which keeps the records comparable between projects. Reboot Monkey also handles decommissioning in Houston, New York, Ashburn, Chicago and Dallas, each linked here for the reader's own planning: Data Center Decommissioning in Houston, Data Center Decommissioning in New York, Data Center Decommissioning in Ashburn, Data Center Decommissioning in Chicago and Data Center Decommissioning in Dallas. A customer closing several sites can ask for them to be scheduled together in one request.

Retiring hardware in Phoenix often goes together with placing new equipment in a rack elsewhere in the same city. Customers moving workloads into new space can arrange Colocation in Phoenix alongside the removal of the old hardware, with Reboot Monkey engineers handling installation and cabling on the receiving side. Reboot Monkey orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack.