Cold Aisle: Data Center Tycoon

Cold Aisle: Data Center Tycoon is a first-person management simulation about building a data center company from an empty facility. You order and receive hardware, move racks, install servers and GPUs, connect power and networking, and turn the equipment into a profitable business. Every number has a visible cause, and the systems you manage affect one another.

Build the facility

Buy racks, servers, GPUs, switches, power distribution, cooling and logistics equipment. Place infrastructure freely, fill racks, route connections and expand capacity while avoiding new bottlenecks.

Run the data center

Compute, storage, power, networking and temperature are connected. Circuits can overload, infrastructure condition deteriorates, cooling uses electricity, and incidents can cause you to violate service-level agreements. Plan reserves, test redundancy, maintain equipment and respond before customers lose confidence.

Win and keep customers

Negotiate contract prices, durations, capacity, peak loads, service levels and penalties. Schedule contract starts, run several jobs in parallel, handle follow-up offers and earn detailed ratings based on measured reliability, performance, response time, value and service.

Grow the company

Hire staff, develop specializations and delegate work, while paying weekly expenses and invoices. You compete against 32 rival companies. If a competitor becomes insolvent, you can buy unknown lots of hardware from its liquidation using in-game currency.

Develop AI products

Put spare infrastructure to work on simulated AI products. Choose research goals, reserve computing power, set prices and build reputation while balancing this market against the needs of your hosting customers.

Progress through the market

Advance through company phases, unlock milestones and survive incidents as you build a business capable of challenging the largest companies in the market. The game is single-player and has no microtransactions.