What's protecting
your property.
A property owner's first instinct on a deal like this is "what's the catch?" The catch is that we transfer every meaningful risk away from your property. Below is the full list of how that works in practice. The same protections appear in your Letter of Intent and your definitive agreement.
ARO owns the hardware. ARO insures the hardware.
The single biggest risk-transfer mechanism in the agreement is asset ownership. Every piece of equipment installed at your property is owned by ARO, on ARO's books, insured under ARO's policies. Your property carries no asset, no depreciation, no insurance exposure on the hub.
Property insurance on the hardware
ARO carries property insurance covering the full replacement cost of the equipment. If a server fails, ARO replaces it. If a rack is damaged in a storm, water event, or other covered loss, ARO replaces it. Your property's policy is not affected, and your property is not on the hook for hardware loss.
Cyber liability coverage
ARO carries cyber liability insurance covering the operational hub and tenant data. Cybersecurity events, data breaches, and tenant security incidents are ARO's exposure, not yours. Your property does not carry tenant cyber risk simply because the hub is in the building.
Hardware warranty
Dell PowerEdge AI servers carry a 5-year hardware warranty with Dell ProSupport and on-site break-fix. NVIDIA GPUs carry standard manufacturer warranties. Motivair cooling carries its own. ARO manages all warranty interactions; your team is never on a vendor support ticket.
Certificate of insurance
At install, ARO provides a Certificate of Insurance naming your property as additional insured. Your insurance broker reviews and adds to your policy schedule. The COI is renewed annually and provided to your property without you having to ask.
Your team has no operational role. By design.
A property owner's nightmare scenario is: a tenant calls at 3am, your front desk is on the phone trying to figure out what to do. That cannot happen here because your property is not in the operational loop. Tenants do not call you, and ARO operations are 24/7.
24/7 NOC monitoring
Every hub is monitored continuously. Health checks, telemetry, alerting on every node. ARO operations responds to issues without involving the property. Your facilities team is informed only if physical access is required, and only on your operations calendar.
Tenants do not call you
ARO is the contractual counterparty for every tenant. Tenant relationships, tenant billing, tenant escalations, tenant compliance: all ARO's. Your property does not appear in tenant contracts. Your front desk is not a support line.
Indemnification
ARO indemnifies the property against claims arising from the operation of the hub, tenant activity on the hub, or hardware failures. The indemnification language is in the agreement and reviewed by your legal counsel. The property carries third-party claim risk only for claims arising from your own negligence.
Designed to be invisible to people inside the building.
The hub sits in unused or under-utilized back-of-house space. It does not touch guest-facing or resident-facing areas. Liquid cooling means quiet operation. Closed water loops mean no humidity impact. Below is the specific list of operational dimensions and how each is handled.
Noise
Liquid-cooled racks operate at conversational noise levels, substantially quieter than conventional air-cooled server rooms. Common areas adjacent to the hub room do not require sound dampening. Your guests and residents will not hear it.
Heat
The cooling loop rejects heat through the rear-door exchanger to facility water at 55 to 65°F. Heat does not radiate into the hub room or adjacent spaces. Your HVAC load does not increase. Adjacent rooms experience no temperature change.
Fire
The hub room is fire-rated per local code, with smoke detection and clean-agent suppression where required. Hub equipment does not increase fire load relative to standard server room equipment. Fire risk for the property does not substantially change.
Water
The cooling water is a closed loop with leak detection. The system is designed to detect a leak at any point and shut down before water enters the floor. Insurance and contract language cover any water-related events arising from the cooling system.
Power
The hub draws power from a sub-meter on your electrical service. ARO reimburses utility consumption per the contract. The hub does not destabilize building electrical service; it adds load behind a clean point of demarcation.
Signage and aesthetics
The hub room is unbranded externally and not visible from public space. ARO does not place signage on your property without permission. Guests and residents see nothing that suggests a data center on premises.
Clean exit, on your terms.
A 10-year contract is long. The contract anticipates that. Below is what happens when the term ends, and the conditions under which the property can terminate early.
Equipment removal at end of term
If the contract ends and the property does not renew, ARO removes every piece of equipment at our expense. Removal includes power, water, and fiber removal at end of term where work was done specifically for the hub. The room is restored to the condition it was in at install.
Renewal rights
Either party can elect to renew the contract before the end of term. Renewal terms are negotiated based on the operational record of the previous term and prevailing market terms. Renewal is not automatic; both parties must agree.
Property right to terminate early
The property has defined rights to terminate the contract early, including: sale of the property to a buyer who declines to assume the contract, regulatory action affecting the property, ARO operational failures beyond defined cure periods. Conditions are specified in the agreement.
What happens if ARO fails operationally
If ARO fails to operate the hub to standards specified in the contract beyond defined cure periods, the property has the right to terminate. ARO's hardware insurance is structured so that even in this scenario, equipment can be removed and the property is not left holding hardware it does not own.
The single sentence to remember.
If a hotel asset manager, condo board attorney, or hospital procurement officer reads only one sentence on this page, this is it:
"ARO owns the hardware, insures the hardware, operates the hardware, indemnifies the property against claims arising from operation, and removes the hardware at end of term, all at our expense, in exchange for a multi-year revenue share to the property."
Every protection on this page maps to that sentence. Your legal counsel will see the same structure across every section of the definitive agreement: ARO carries the risk, ARO carries the cost, the property carries the room and the revenue.