I don't know of any off the shelf ones, but there are "data centers" like Google and Microsoft and Amazon build for their "gear" which they resell as "services", and there are "data centers" which are built by Real Estate Investment Trusts which are designed for 'unknown' gear and 'unknown' services.
It is more expensive to build the latter since you cannot know ahead of time what gear to support. Whereas if you're building a box full of Open Compute servers you're in a much better space.
The "services" data centers are really much closer to building sized servers than they are hosting facilities for rack mount servers.
I expect like other specialized facilities part of the 'value add' as a construction agent is both procedural generation tools and experience with various cost trade offs which really only comes from building several of them.
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I don't know of any off the shelf ones, but there are "data centers" like Google and Microsoft and Amazon build for their "gear" which they resell as "services", and there are "data centers" which are built by Real Estate Investment Trusts which are designed for 'unknown' gear and 'unknown' services.
It is more expensive to build the latter since you cannot know ahead of time what gear to support. Whereas if you're building a box full of Open Compute servers you're in a much better space.
The "services" data centers are really much closer to building sized servers than they are hosting facilities for rack mount servers.
I expect like other specialized facilities part of the 'value add' as a construction agent is both procedural generation tools and experience with various cost trade offs which really only comes from building several of them.