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We help accelerate the deployment of critical digital infrastructure… powering AI, enterprise, telco, edge, and colocation facilities.

Salas O’Brien takes a fully integrated, layered approach. Our MEP, FP and controls teams collaborate to design flexible, scalable systems that meet the density and performance today’s mission-critical environments demand. Fabrication-level modeling creates virtual twins that identify issues early, while our commissioning expertise ensures smooth, on-time startup. From resilient power generation and distribution to advanced cooling strategies and structurally optimized campuses, we help owners deliver reliable, future-ready capacity with speed and certainty.

Salas O’Brien has teams across North America that help you navigate the path to energized infrastructure. We engage utilities early, assess grid capacity and power availability, design resilient on-site power generation and microgrid solutions, and build comprehensive electrical master plans that keep capacity ahead of demand.

Our teams design advanced liquid-cooling and hybrid cooling approaches that optimize power, space, and thermal management across the entire facility. This enables owners to support rising rack densities in AI, enterprise, telco, edge, and colocation environments without compromising reliability or efficiency. As power and density requirements continue to evolve, we help owners design adaptable systems that improve PUE and keep facilities ready for future demands.

Salas O’Brien assesses what existing structures and sites can realistically support, then engineers the power, cooling, and structural upgrades that turn them into viable digital infrastructure. Our teams evaluate aging and underutilized facilities for redevelopment potential, design the electrical and mechanical systems needed to meet high-density demands, and plan campus expansions that add capacity without starting from scratch—giving owners a faster, lower-risk path to bringing warehouses, brownfields, and industrial sites into the AI economy.

We provide owner’s representation, agile procurement strategy, integrated project delivery, and commissioning—managing long-lead equipment and supply chains for cost and schedule certainty.

Salas O’Brien does this by acting as an extension of the owner’s team—coordinating under one integrated approach so decisions happen faster. Our teams plan for long-lead equipment early, manage supply-chain and procurement risk before it hits the schedule, field environmental noise control mitigation, and carry lifecycle commissioning through to operational readiness. The result is greater cost and schedule certainty, and campuses that come online ready to perform. 

Sustainability, campus planning, and operational resilience keep facilities ready for what’s next. 

Salas O’Brien helps you plan and design systems that hold up under real-world stress—power interruptions, escalating loads, water constraints, and evolving technology demands. Our teams build energy and water resilience into the design from day one, size infrastructure and campus layouts with room to scale, and engineer electrical and mechanical systems that keep facilities running reliably as requirements change—so owners can adapt to what’s next without rebuilding what they have.