What’s next
for your data center.

NextField™ delivers a customized roadmap to transform brownfield facilities into their highest and best use.

Extract maximum value from your aging infrastructure.

NextField™ by Enabled Energy empowers owners of legacy data centers to achieve the highest and best use of every facility in their portfolio. This unique transformation service delivers accurate, facility-specific plans for data center owners/operators looking to increase EBITDA and achieve maximum value from their existing infrastructure.

Instead of defaulting to costly new builds or premature decommissioning, our solution offers a smarter path forward: a clear, data-driven strategy to revitalize and maximize revenue of the current building portfolio.

Beyond Brownfield. NextField.

Many legacy facilities operate below their potential due to aged electrical topologies, inefficient cooling, and manual operations. NextField delivers a comprehensive analysis of existing assets—evaluating capacity, revenue potential, long-term costs, and remaining useful life. The result is a tailored, actionable roadmap that helps:

Optimize asset performance and densify for today’s market demands
Increase EBITDA and value of the property
Extend the useful life of your facilities
Minimize long-term operational costs

Whether you’re managing underutilized facilities, planning for lifecycle investments, or navigating sustainability goals, NextField gives you the insights and confidence you need to make high-impact decisions—fast!

“Legacy does not mean low value. Our data center solution experts will create a customized roadmap to transform your brownfield facilities into a thriving and profitable NextField fleet.”

Joe Staib, CEO, Enabled Energy

Learn more about the benefits of NextField from our CEO, Joe Staib

Colocation

The Challenge: Aging sites struggle to support high-density clients or AI-ready workloads

NextField:

Reclaim more usable kW via low-disruption, lower cost, retrofits
Extend system life of power and thermal systems
Significantly boost density in suite remodels

Telco

The Challenge: Legacy central offices/real estate are underutilized

NextField:

Convert these properties into high-margin, edge-ready data centers
Align with 5G, IoT, and MEC workloads

Enterprise

The Challenge: Aging or inefficient internal facilities with increasing loads to support new applications and functionality

NextField:

Automate legacy data centers with AI optimization
Realize energy savings, operational efficiency, and sustainability

A strategic roadmap
to real financial returns.

Take the next step to transformation

Frequently Asked Questions

What is NextField, and why does it matter now?
NextField is Enabled Energy’s strategic solution to transform aging data centers into AI-ready assets. We’ll create and deliver a customized optimization roadmap that includes:
- A go/no-go analysis with viability evaluation
- Value-based retrofit options aligned with your goals
- Operational and energy efficiency recommendations
- Financial modeling with detailed CAPEX/OPEX estimates and ROI forecasts
As AI compute demand outpaces current infrastructure capacity, legacy sites offer an underutilized solution to bridge the gap—without the cost and lengthy timelines required for greenfield builds.
How does NextField create value from aging infrastructure?

NextField identifies and unlocks latent value in underutilized data centers by deploying targeted retrofits, enhancing power density, cooling, and resiliency to meet AI inference and edge compute demands.

For example, by upgrading cooling to support 20–40 kW racks, increasing electrical resiliency, and enhancing airflow and containment strategies, a site that currently supports 5.5–6.0 MW of IT load can reach 7–8 MW. This translates into a 25–40% boost in sellable capacity, with retrofit costs in the $5–6 million per MW range. This is significantly less than greenfield equivalents, which now average $8–10 million per MW in constrained markets.
What kind of EBITDA uplift can investors and owners expect from a NextField upgrade?

A 10-20% increase in IT load at stabilized rates can result in a 25–50%+ increase in EBITDA per site. These gains come from higher asset utilization, improved margins from AI-ready capacity, and reduced capex relative to greenfield alternatives. In addition, brownfield retrofits can typically be completed 6 to 24 months faster than greenfield builds, shortening the time to increased revenue.
Which data centers are good candidates for NextField?

NextField was created for under 10MW legacy data centers (typically 5–40 years old), including colos, enterprise facilities, and telco sites seeking to increase asset value, modernize infrastructure, and stay competitive in a shifting market. Ideal candidates are typically facilities with good power availability, structural integrity, and network access, as these can be repositioned to accommodate modern workloads.
What is the NextField process, and how do I get started?

To build your roadmap, we’ll start with a Discovery, which includes a thorough review of energy use, equipment performance, and capacity utilization; document analysis; staff interviews; and an on-site audit. We’ll then provide a multi-phased roadmap—ranging from advanced standards transformation and targeted equipment upgrades to organizational scaling and strategic partnership alignment.

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