Prefabricated modular data center

A prefabricated modular data center is made of functional blocks (IT halls, chiller plants, electrical substations) built and tested in a factory, then simply hooked up on site. The first gain is time. Commissioning takes months where a traditional build takes years, hence its rapid adoption for AI compute capacity, where the commercial window is short and the installed hardware is worth a great deal. The risk profile moves both ways. Execution quality improves, because testing happens in a factory and is repeated identically instead of on a site that differs every time. That same standardization makes things worse elsewhere. A serial defect hits every module of a given generation at once, and with it a whole site, possibly several sites of the same client. Underwriters call that manufacturing accumulation, as distinct from geographic accumulation. Construction exposure also shifts toward transport and lifting, where damage strikes a fully built structure rather than raw materials, and the value at risk moves from erection to delivery.