Matthieu Gallego · The Blob Company

Data centre consultancy assignments

Consultancy and project leadership assignments defined around your project and the decisions ahead.

Work you can commission

You can engage The Blob Company for consultancy alone, without a sale process, project company transaction or PowerlandMap subscription.

Your need: You need to decide whether to progress a site or compare development options.
Scope of work: Review land constraints, grid correspondence, planning pathways and technical assumptions. Coordinate the studies needed to test feasibility.
Deliverables: A feasibility review, risk register and development roadmap with evidence gaps.
Engagement format: A defined site review or an early development phase.

Your need: You need someone to lead development or coordinate several advisers on your behalf.
Scope of work: Set the project brief, appoint and coordinate consultants, track power and permitting dependencies, budget, programme and owner decisions.
Deliverables: A development programme, budget, responsibility matrix and action and decision log.
Engagement format: One project phase or recurring part-time development leadership.

Your need: You need to appoint specialists or compare bids before committing.
Scope of work: Define scope and interfaces, prepare the consultation, assess qualifications and compare exclusions, fees, programmes and risks. Coordinate technical and legal input.
Deliverables: A scope brief, responsibility matrix, bid analysis and appointment recommendation.
Engagement format: A defined procurement assignment or support within a development phase.

Your need: You are preparing a bid, testing an acquisition price or updating a portfolio view.
Scope of work: Challenge project assumptions, the business plan, capital expenditure and value sensitivities. Compare the technical position with the investment case.
Deliverables: An independent review, valuation range where scoped, sensitivities and questions for the investment decision.
Engagement format: A targeted review, asset valuation or recurring portfolio update.

Your need: You want to seek an operator, investor or development partner for a sufficiently documented project.
Scope of work: Qualify readiness, prepare presentation materials, manage controlled disclosure, approach relevant counterparties and compare letters of intent.
Deliverables: A teaser, information memorandum, controlled data room and counterparty and offer comparison.
Engagement format: A separate commercialisation mandate, complementary to consultancy.

Examples from Matthieu Gallego’s prior roles and advisory assignments.

Assignment purpose: Plan a phased extension while accounting for the risks of work in an operating facility.
Work performed: Project coordination, phasing, operational risk review, commissioning coordination and project management standards.
Decisions supported: Sequence works, manage interfaces with operations and prepare commissioning and handover.

Assignment purpose: Provide an independent technical, operational and commercial view of existing data centre assets.
Work performed: Technical due diligence, operating and commercial review, capital expenditure benchmarking and acquisition decision support.
Decisions supported: Assess the risks and expenditure to reflect in the acquisition price and terms.

Assignment purpose: Structure a development programme across several markets for investment review.
Work performed: Business-plan review, development phasing, power strategy, capital expenditure modelling and programme governance.
Decisions supported: Compare development scenarios, phase investment and organise project oversight.

You can engage The Blob Company for consultancy alone, without a sale process, project company transaction or PowerlandMap subscription.