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Data Center Insurance and Risk Management

Reduce data center risk and lower insurance costs. With our global team of risk engineers, climate, cyber, energy and construction risk specialists, you can boost data center resilience and viability.

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Resilient data centers get ahead of the multitude of risks they face

 

Your ability to manage complex climate, cyber, people, construction, property and energy risks will define the future, or failure, of your data center project.

Your insurance needs to protect your data center project every stage of delivery, but without ever paying for coverage you don’t need.

Take control of your data center insurance and risk management challenges.

Call on our track record of helping some of the world’s biggest technology and industrial companies build data centers at pace and scale. You can join those data center operators already taking advantage of our strength in specialty.

Willis, a WTW business, connects you to a multi-discipline, global team of specialists. With deep experience in identifying, quantifying, managing and optimizing data center risk and insurance, we free you to grasp the opportunities.

How can you lower risk and reduce data center insurance costs?

To reduce risks and lower your data center’s insurance costs, our specialist teams build a seamless service around your specific needs and across the lifecycle of your project.

We also pave a smooth and cost-efficient path to data center delivery with a single point of contact for your project.

Expect joined-up processes designed to help you make more informed, better value decisions more easily, from designing to financing your data center, to construction and operation.

Secure your data center

We can help you:

  • Procure the right equipment early, so it’s in place when you need it and meets insurers’ requirements
  • Source data center talent with specialist support to attract the right skills and set the right incentives to deliver your project
  • Choose the right energy supply, from solar farms to small-scale nuclear reactors, our energy specialists can clarify the option that suits your needs
  • Minimize aggregated risk on sites featuring data center clusters
  • Fulfil lender requirements and offer investor assurance by demonstrating you’re managing complex risks, meeting their due diligence requirements
  • Reduce risks and optimize mitigations with risk engineers, advising on choice of materials to fire, flood defenses and more
  • Identify natural catastrophe and climate-related risks that could lead to downtime with a combination of industry and climate risk experts and advanced analytics
  • Manage fire risks from choosing green materials with advice on how to integrate them safely into your plans.

We can help you:

  • Manage off-site construction with advice on fabricating components, plus  transporting and storing them safely so your insurance covers them
  • Mitigate engineering risks with risk engineering expertise to assess hazards and recommend improvements to minimize potential losses and support better insurance outcomes
  • Model and quantify the financial impacts of loss scenarios at each stage of your project, so you can make more efficient decisions on insurance limits
  • Negotiate optimal insurance terms and competitive pricing on builders' all-risk and owner-controlled (OCIP) policies and integrate workers’ compensation, pollution liability and owners' professional indemnity into your program
  • Ensure consistent cover with our global reach and local presence so all your policies operate in the same way with the same terms wherever you build, helping you progress at pace
  • Support and verify your claims, negotiate with underwriters and actuaries, and secure prompt payment with support from our claims specialists.

We can help you:

  • Manage the insurance transition to operating, preventing breaks in core property and casualty cover, while adapting your insurance program to include emerging operational risks
  • Smooth the day-to-day challenges from switching to operating with support from your senior single point of contact
  • Model and quantify the financial impacts of loss scenarios at operational phase, so you can make more analytical informed decisions on insurance limits and risk mitigation spend and return
  • Review and update your property and business interruption risks and policies to avoid unexpected exposures or over-insurance
  • Mitigate operational risks with continued access to risk engineers who can advise on how your buildings and equipment are performing against risk factors once operational
  • Specialized engineering advice on Nat Cat and Climate risks by our expert engineers to mitigate against potential earthquakes, hurricanes or floods as well as evaluate the impact of chronic hazards such as drought, temperature and heat to your operations (i.e. cooling system, water scarcity, utilities impact etc.) now and in the future.
  • Manage cyber risks with specialist consulting and analytics on emerging threats and the most effective and efficient cyber security controls and cyber insurance for your operational data center.
  • Assess alternative forms of insurance with using parametric solutions for outages or helping you assess reputational impact.

How can your data center benefit from tailored insurance solutions?

One-size-fits-all data center insurance can’t deliver optimal value for your project. The business model risks for a hyperscaler focusing on AI compared to a retail co-location operator specializing in data storage are quite different necessitating a tailored approach.

To make sure you get the right protection at an appropriate cost, we build data center insurance coverages around your project. We call on advanced risk analytics and tailored modeling to reveal the precise structure, limits and deductibles to meet your specific needs.

We create robust insurance and risk management frameworks to address the growing climate threats of today. By leveraging data-driven analytics and natural catastrophe risk engineering, we help organizations close protection gaps and build resilience in a rapidly changing world. Specifically, we assess climate risks to data centers, identifying potential vulnerabilities to physical damage and operational disruptions, including risks associated with their geographic clustering. Our tailored solutions provide climate adaptation and mitigation strategies to manage and finance these risks effectively, covering a range of threats from man-made hazards and natural disasters to climate-related perils.

We also help streamline your data center coverages with bespoke, flexible insurance policy wordings *(subject to insurer acceptance) that can transition easily from construction to operation, across projects and global jurisdictions.

Willis is also committed to closing insurance gaps and securing insurance capacity for your data center, connecting you to our global placement capabilities and alternative risk transfer teams when you need them.

You can also expect greater claims certainty by choosing to work with specialist brokers with a deep understanding of what you can claim for, plus claims specialists with a track record of collecting payments.

Disclaimer

WTW hopes you found the general information provided here informative and helpful. The information contained herein is not intended to constitute legal or other professional advice and should not be relied upon in lieu of consultation with your own legal advisors. In the event you would like more information regarding your insurance coverage, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. In North America, WTW offers insurance products through licensed entities, including Willis Towers Watson Northeast, Inc. (in the United States) and Willis Canada Inc. (in Canada).

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