Data Center Economics Advisory
Acquisition price is one line item. RFG models the full 3–5 year total cost of ownership of enterprise infrastructure — compute, power, space, licensing, and operations — across on-prem, cloud, and AI factory deployments.
FIGURES ILLUSTRATIVE. ENGAGEMENTS MODEL YOUR WORKLOADS, RATES, AND CONTRACTS.
The Core Discipline
Most infrastructure decisions are won or lost in the 3–5 years after the purchase order. RFG models both sides so the trade-offs are explicit before capital is committed.
TCA
Total Cost of Acquisition
The day-one number: what it takes to put the infrastructure on the floor.
TCO · 3–5 YR
Total Cost of Ownership
The number that hits the P&L every quarter for the life of the platform.
What We Model
Every engagement produces a defensible, assumption-transparent economic model your CFO can interrogate line by line.
Steady-state enterprise workloads price very differently on owned infrastructure than on consumption billing. We model both paths over 3–5 years — including egress, growth, and contract terms — to show where each genuinely wins.
GPU economics are unforgiving. We compare owned AI factories against hyperscale cloud and neocloud GPU providers on cost per token, utilization sensitivity, power, and contract risk.
Server-by-server modeling of on-prem CPU deployments across every major compute OEM, on both Intel and AMD platforms — configuration, pricing, performance per watt, and per-core licensing impact.
Accelerator selection by the numbers: training and inference performance, memory capacity and bandwidth, ecosystem maturity, availability, and fully loaded cost per unit of work.
Aging fleets burn money in place. We quantify the cost, space, power, and licensing recovered by consolidating onto modern platforms — and the payback period on the refresh.
Modernization is a sustainability lever. We translate consolidation into kWh avoided, carbon reduced, and reporting-ready figures that stand up alongside the financial case.
From the Library
Engagements typically begin with a focused workload or fleet assessment and deliver a board-ready economic model in weeks, not quarters.