Data Centers | Hyperscalers & Developers
Real-time visibility into how every contractor is performing on every site, without adding without adding an army of expensive quality inspectors or chasing weekly reports.
Data center programs depend on contractor performance across dozens of sites, hundreds of trade partners, and thousands of critical connections. But the visibility you get today is often a weekly report at best. In one hyperscaler study, trade partners not using Cumulus averaged 25 to 75 days to submit their QAQC paperwork. When Cumulus was used, documentation was added to the hyperscaler’s ACC system in less than one day.
By the time a commissioning failure surfaces, the cost to fix is 10x what it would have been during installation, and the RFS slip is already on your desk.
Cumulus gives you a portfolio-level view of construction quality as it happens, enforced by the spec in your next RFP.
4GW+
of data center construction supported by Cumulus
100K+
modules managed
15.6M+
work completions tracked
Contractor QA varies by site, crew, and culture
Standards on paper don’t translate to standards in the field. Without enforcement at the point of execution, every contractor and every site reverts to their own habits, and you can’t hold them to a spec you can’t verify.
Commissioning failures discovered too late
Loose bolts, missed insulation resistance tests, and incomplete torque records surface during commissioning instead of during installation, when the cost to fix is roughly 10x higher and the schedule impact is the largest.
No real-time view of MEP progress
The weekly report tells you where the contractor said they were last Friday. It doesn’t tell you what’s actually been installed, verified, and ready for testing right now. That gap is where RFS slips live.
Documentation gaps at closeout
Two-week paperwork scrambles. Missing signatures. Hand-filled torque logs no one can defend if a warranty claim shows up six months later. Your closeout package is your audit trail, and today it’s only as good as the last subcontractor’s binder.
Tenant escalation lands on you, not the contractor
When the hyperscale tenant’s commissioning engineer asks for connection-level documentation, the developer takes the call, not the GC, not the EC. You need to be able to answer in seconds.
Your contractors aren’t trying to fail. They’re doing the work the way they’ve always done it: paper checklists, manual entry, signatures at end of shift. The data you get back is reconstructed, not captured. That’s not a contractor problem. That’s a structural gap between how work is executed and how it’s documented.
Cumulus closes that gap by capturing execution data automatically at the moment of work, directly from connected tools, in standardized digital workflows, across every contractor on every site. When you mandate Cumulus in your RFP, every project you run from that point forward holds the same standard.
Your QA stops depending on contractor culture and starts depending on the spec.
Mandate the standard. Get the proof.
Cumulus integrates directly with the tools your contractors already use, including torque guns, megger testers, and pressure gauges. Workers follow guided workflows on a tablet. The tool captures the data. Your dashboard updates in real time.
Cumulus becomes a contract requirement. Every contractor on every site follows the same QA/QC standard, from day one, not by negotiation. Electrical, mechanical, and commissioning teams all work in the same system, so cross-trade progress is visible in one view, not stitched together from three reports.
How many connections installed today, across which sites, by which contractor, hitting which spec. Not last Friday’s number. Today’s number.
Every connection, every test, every signature, timestamped, tool-linked, GPS-tagged, and queryable. The closeout package is the audit trail. The warranty defense is automatic.
Protect the RFS date. Defend the closeout. Scale the standard.
See how Fulcrum Data Center Services uses Cumulus to give developers, hyperscalers, and their contractors a real-time view of construction progress across complex, multi-site builds.
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 data center programs at scale.
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.
See what real-time portfolio visibility looks like on a project of your scale.
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