GPU generations refresh every 18–24 months. Cooling architectures every 3–5. A hall commissioned today will host three workload eras before it is decommissioned.
The right procurement question is not 'how many kW can I get?' It is 'whose lifecycle decisions am I inheriting?' — because the hierarchy, criticality view and strategy library baked in at commissioning will constrain every reliability choice for the next decade.
Buyers who only score sticker MW and PUE miss the operating model: who owns FMEA refresh, who owns spares strategy, who owns the evidence pack when the auditor arrives.
That is the real product ReliDC sells: defensible lifecycle decisions, not another dashboard. Assessments, pilots and retainers exist to put those decisions on paper — and keep them current.
Next time a colo or integrator pitches AI capacity, ask for the hierarchy sample, the ACR matrix and the last FMEA cycle date. If they cannot produce them, you are buying watts without a reliability system.
- Score lifecycle artefacts, not only MW and PUE.
- Ask for hierarchy, ACR and FMEA cadence in procurement.
- Three GPU eras will outlive today's cooling architecture.
- Lifecycle decisions compound; dashboards do not.
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