Data Centers | General Contractors
One cross-trade partner view of every connection, every test, every signature, so commissioning starts on time and the next bid starts with proof.
Mission-critical data center jobs run on a knife’s edge. Electrical, mechanical, and commissioning teams are stacked on top of each other, the schedule is locked, and the owner is watching the RFS date. The current process, paper checklists from trade partners, weekly status reports, two-week paperwork scrambles before commissioning can start, wasn’t built for this pace. By the time a missed torqued termination or an incomplete QA record surfaces, you’re already in a delay conversation with the owner, and your closeout package is the only thing standing between you and the next bid.
Cumulus gives you a single cross-trade view of QA/QC in real time, so the next-bid credential is built into the way you run this job.
4GW+
of data center construction supported by Cumulus
100K+
modules managed
15.6M+
work completions tracked
Subcontractor QA varies by trade, crew, and culture
EC says they're done. MC says they're waiting on EC. Commissioning says neither one is ready. Without a shared system at the point of execution, every sub reverts to their own way of working, and you're the one holding the schedule together.
Safety incidents that put your next contract at risk
Improperly tightened electrical connections are a primary cause of arc flash incidents, which cause approximately 7,000 burn injuries and more than 3,600 disabling injuries annually in the US. One incident on a hyperscale site doesn't just hurt a worker. It hurts your safety record, your owner relationship, and your shortlist position on the next job.
Owner escalation when MEP coordination slips
The developer doesn't see the EC-MC handoff problem. They see a schedule slip and a GC who can't explain it. Without cross-trade visibility you're answering questions you don't have data to answer.
No real-time cross-trade progress, only sub self-reports
The status update you get on Friday is the story the sub wants you to hear. By Monday, it's already wrong. You need to see what's actually been installed and verified, not what was promised at the last coordination meeting.
Thin closeout, which costs you the next bid
Owners and hyperscale tenants are building shortlists based on documentation quality, not just schedule performance. When this project's turnover package is a stack of binders no one can search, you've already started losing the next one.
Your subs aren’t trying to fail. They’re doing the work the way they’ve always done it: paper checklists, hand-filled torque logs, signatures at the end of shift. Every trade runs its own system, and you spend the project stitching them together. That’s not a sub problem. That’s a structural gap between how MEP work is executed and how it’s documented
Cumulus closes that gap by capturing execution data automatically at the moment of work, directly from the torque guns, megger testers, and pressure gauges your trades already use. Every connection, every test, in one system, visible to you in real time. Electrical, mechanical, and commissioning all working from the same source of truth.
Your schedule stops depending on what the subs report and starts depending on what the data shows.
One system across trades. Visible to you. Defensible at turnover.
Cumulus integrates directly with the tools your trades already use, including torque wrenches, megger testers, and pressure gauges. Workers follow guided workflows on a tablet. The tool captures the data. Your cross-trade dashboard updates in real time.
Cumulus runs across every trade on site, in one system. Cross-trade progress is visible in one view, not stitched together from three reports. Procore manages the project. Cumulus manages the physical connection quality at the bolt level. They work together, and Cumulus integrates directly with Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
How many connections installed today, how many verified, by which trade, hitting which spec. The number you walk into the owner meeting with is today's number, not last Friday's.
Every connection, every test, every signature, timestamped, tool-linked, GPS-tagged, and queryable. The closeout package becomes the audit trail. The next-bid credential is built in.
Hit the schedule. Protect the safety record. Win the next bid.
See how Fulcrum Data Center Services uses Cumulus to coordinate electrical, mechanical, and commissioning teams across complex multi-site builds, keeping the GC ahead of the owner conversation and the next bid.
Cumulus was originally developed inside Shell’s mission-critical infrastructure program, built to solve the documentation and verification gap on projects where a single bad connection could cost lives and hundreds of millions of dollars. Today, that same platform is in use across hyperscale data center programs at scale, and on equipment where Cumulus is used, zero arc flash incidents have been recorded.
Cumulus integrates with project management and documentation systems through a flexible API.
Most users are up and running in under an hour, with full onboarding support provided.
Cumulus is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and uses industry-standard encryption and security protocols.
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