BladeRoom announced its U.S. entry in 2013 through a partnership with Modular Power Solutions (MPS), a Rosendin Holdings unit, with plans for Michigan manufacturing and a Chicago technology center. Those plans describe the announcement at the time, not proof that every facility opened or that the partnership continues. BladeRoom now identifies Kais-AIR, a Kaiser Enterprise division, as its exclusive North American licensee for designing, fabricating, and installing its data centers.
What BladeRoom announced in 2013
On October 7, 2013, Data Center Knowledge reported that U.K.-based BladeRoom and MPS had formed BladeRoom USA. The announcement called for prefabricated components to be manufactured at a Michigan factory and for a Chicago technology center to open in January. The report does not establish whether those plans were completed.
The partnership reflected two different capabilities as described in the report: BladeRoom brought its data-center modular system, while MPS had delivered more than 60 MW of modular power rooms. BladeRoom said it had built more than 30 data centers across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It also cited Merlin, a CapGemini UK facility, as an example of its work. These are figures and examples reported in 2013, not a current project count.
What “building blocks” meant
Rather than treating a data center as one indivisible building project, BladeRoom described a facility assembled from pre-engineered modules that could be combined to meet customer requirements. The 2013 report said the system was vendor-neutral for IT equipment and could accommodate standard racks or freestanding equipment. As Barnaby Smith, then Head of Communications for BladeRoom USA, put it: “We break the overall data center down into a series of pre-engineered building blocks. You can combine these to create a facility of any size and density.”
The report gave a historical data-hall capacity range of 70 kW to 1.5 MW, with typical cabinet loads of 1 to 20 kW and spot delivery up to 50 kW. These 2013 figures should not be treated as specifications for every current BladeRoom offering.
Cooling approach in the 2013 description
The design described in the report used filtered outside air, evaporative cooling, and backup direct-expansion (DX) refrigerant cooling. Controls adjusted airflow in response to IT demand; the system did not use a raised floor or ductwork. BladeRoom said this approach reduced energy and water use. Those savings were company claims in the 2013 report, not independently verified results established by the sources available here.
What has changed in North America
BladeRoom’s current North American Operations page, accessed September 30, 2026, names Kais-AIR, a Kaiser Enterprise division, as the exclusive licensee for designing, fabricating, and installing BladeRoom data centers in North America. That is the current arrangement the company describes; MPS/Rosendin was the partner named in the 2013 U.S. entry announcement.
On the same page, BladeRoom reports 1,000,000 square feet of U.S. manufacturing space and 20 U.S. BladeRooms delivered, with sites ranging from 375 kW to 19 MW. It also reports 189 data halls globally and more than 214 MW of capacity. These are company-published figures, dated here to the page’s September 30, 2026 access date.
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Current example: the All-In-One
BladeRoom’s All-In-One Modular Data Centre page, accessed September 30, 2026, describes a prefabricated facility designed for up to 100 kW and 13 racks. The company states a PUE of 1.11, full operation within 20 weeks of final design approval, and installation and connections within 72 hours. It describes an example deployment for an unnamed U.S. automotive manufacturer and attributes the 1.11 PUE to that facility. These are vendor-published specifications and claims, not independent validation.
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BladeRoom’s 2013 report framed conventional permanent data centers as its main competition. Its current All-In-One page positions the product as different from containerized facilities. Those are company positions, not an independently tested comparison. For an actual construction decision, compare the project requirements rather than relying on labels:
- Customization and site fit: Check how much the design can be adapted to the site, local climate, permitting constraints, and the intended IT layout.
- Capacity and density: Confirm both total IT load and the expected rack-level loads, including growth and high-density areas.
- Cooling: Review the proposed cooling method against local weather, water availability, filtration needs, and operating conditions.
- Redundancy: Specify the required resilience for power, cooling, and maintainability, then verify it in the design rather than inferring it from a construction type.
- Schedule and on-site work: Separate factory fabrication, delivery, installation, utility connections, commissioning, and readiness for IT equipment. Ask what each quoted timeline includes.
- Utilities and lifecycle cost: Establish electrical and water demands, operating assumptions, maintenance requirements, and the basis of any efficiency or total-cost comparison. Seek independently supported performance data where available.
In 2013, Smith summarized the regional challenge this way: “The US is a different animal from the rest of the world,” referring to differences that influence U.S. projects. That is a useful reminder to assess a facility against its actual location and requirements, not to assume a modular design transfers unchanged between markets.
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