Billing for colocation and AI infrastructure.
Data centres sell three things at once — space, power and compute — and most billing stacks were built for none of them. Utilities Group rates rack space, committed and metered kW, cross-connects, remote hands and GPU-hours on a single contract, and invoices them on a single bill.
- Metering interval
- 5-min
- Power model
- kW / kVA
- Compute model
- GPU-hour
- Energy source
- NEM-native
Space, power and compute — one rating engine.
Colocation billing usually ends up as a contract in a PDF, a spreadsheet of kW readings and an invoice typed by hand. We model all three as first-class billable events.
GPU-hour & accelerator metering
Meter accelerator time per tenant, per cluster, per job. Reserved capacity, burst and on-demand rates on the same contract, with commitment drawdown and overage rated automatically.
- GPU-hour, node-hour and job-level metering
- Reserved vs on-demand vs burst rate cards
- Commitment drawdown, true-up and overage
- Per-tenant chargeback and showback reporting
Rack, cage and suite contracts
MRC and NRC on every line item — space, power circuits, cross-connects, remote hands, bandwidth. Escalations, ramp schedules and SLA credits applied without anyone reopening the contract.
- Rack, cage, suite and wholesale hall billing
- Cross-connects, remote hands, IP transit
- CPI and fixed annual escalations
- SLA breach credits applied automatically
Committed kW vs metered draw
Bill contracted capacity, metered consumption or the greater of the two. Sub-metered to the rack, reconciled against the site's NMI, with PUE recovery and energy pass-through calculated per cycle.
- Committed kW/kVA vs actual draw
- Rack and cage-level sub-metering
- PUE-based overhead recovery
- Demand charges and pass-through energy
The bill your tenants actually want to read.
Space, power and compute on a single statement, each line traced back to the meter read, the contract clause or the job record that produced it. When a tenant queries a charge, the answer is in the invoice — not in a three-week email thread with your finance team.
- Every line item links to its source: sub-meter, contract term or usage record.
- Multi-site and multi-currency tenants consolidated or split, your choice.
- Reseller and wholesale hierarchies with margin, markup and rev-share built in.
Colocation · 12 racks, Hall B
MRC · CPI escalation applied
$48,600.00
Power · 420 kW committed
Metered draw 397 kW · billed at commit
$92,820.00
PUE recovery · 1.28
Site overhead apportioned by IT load
$26,010.00
GPU compute · 18,240 GPU-hrs
14,000 reserved · 4,240 on-demand
$61,344.00
Cross-connects · 34 active
Incl. 6 provisioned this cycle (pro-rata)
$5,780.00
SLA credit · SYD1 power event
99.982% vs 99.99% — auto-applied
−$4,120.00
AI workloads broke the colocation billing model.
A rack that drew 5 kW now draws 60. Contracts written around space are settled on power. Tenants want consumption pricing on assets you had to commit to years in advance. The billing system is where all of that has to reconcile — every single month.
See how our AI agents handle itDensity
- 5 kW racks to 60 kW+ AI racks
- Liquid cooling cost recovery
- Stranded vs usable capacity
- Per-rack power headroom tracking
Energy
- NEM spot and hedged pass-through
- PPA and renewable attribution
- Network demand charges
- Sub-meter to NMI reconciliation
Contracts
- Ramp schedules and hold periods
- Take-or-pay power commitments
- CPI, fixed and stepped escalations
- Renewals, expansions and churn
Reporting
- Tenant chargeback and showback
- Revenue per kW and per rack
- Scope 2 energy reporting inputs
- Utilisation vs contracted capacity
It plugs into the systems you already run.
DCIM, BMS, sub-metering, orchestration and finance. Open APIs and event streams in both directions — no sealed boxes, no vendor-managed exports.
DCIM & BMS
Pull capacity, circuit and asset data from your DCIM. Reconcile billed space and power against what's actually racked.
Metering & sub-metering
Branch circuit monitoring, intelligent PDUs and site NMI data ingested on 5-minute intervals and reconciled every cycle.
Compute orchestration
Usage records from Kubernetes, Slurm and GPU schedulers turned into rated, tenant-attributed billable events.
Finance & ERP
Revenue recognition, deferred revenue on prepaid commitments, GST handling and clean journals into your ledger.
Billing that keeps up with your load.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you a colocation contract, a power reconciliation and a GPU-hour bill run — live.