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October 06, 2026 | 19 min

The Lease Ended and the Racks Were Still Full: Data Centre Decommissioning in Singapore

A composite scenario from Singapore: a colocation lease reaches its end date with two racks still installed, no current inventory, and a restoration clause discovered six weeks out. Why a decommission is four projects rather than one, the ten-stage process in order, the lead times that actually cause missed deadlines, and what a quote really depends on.