Enclosure, shielding, power, network, and cooling — engineered as a system and integrated as one. This is our specification, not a bill of materials.
Ironclad builds hardened, self-powered, relocatable compute modules. What follows is the standard every module is built and tested to — the performance envelope, the construction standard, and the operating boundary. Suppliers are selected and integrated by Ironclad; we describe what the module does, not whose parts are inside it.
Capital treated as equipment moves differently than capital sunk into a building: faster to authorize, faster to depreciate, and recoverable when the mission moves. A module that is not real property does not strand value in someone else's ground.
Where utility power is available and adequate, Ironclad modules run on it. Where it is not — or where the interconnection queue, the capacity study, or the host's own load makes it a liability — the module brings its own. Self-generation is an optional configuration, and one of the platform's strongest advantages: it removes the grid from the critical path entirely.
Connectivity is specified the same way as power: owned where it matters, redundant by design, and free of intermediaries in the path the customer's data travels.
Modules are available in liquid- and air-cooled configurations. Deliverable density is a function of generation, configuration, networking, cooling, and PUE — which is why Ironclad sizes it against a defined workload during solution design instead of advertising a figure that ignores the other five variables.
Liquid- and air-cooled configurations are both available, and can be combined within a single enclosure so density scales zone by zone as compute generations change — without a facility-wide retrofit.
Enclosures are engineered and fabricated to the construction specifications below, in a secured US production facility, under access control, component-level inspection, and a transport security plan that holds through delivery.
Ironclad builds to these construction standards. Accreditation of a classified facility is granted by the cognizant authority for a specific site and mission — Ironclad claims no such accreditation today and does not represent one as held. Where a program requires accreditation, we build to the standard and support the accrediting process.
Air cooling ships standard on every platform; liquid architectures scale to the highest densities as workloads demand it. Air, RDHx, Direct-to-Chip, and liquid immersion can be configured within the same enclosure — allowing rack density to scale zone by zone as GPU generations evolve, without a facility-wide retrofit.
Ironclad platforms integrate with utility power by default, with behind-the-meter and microgrid options for sites that need them — see Ironclad Power™ for the full configuration package.
Vendor-neutral at every layer of the stack. Orchestration, monitoring, and management are built on open standards your team already knows.
Further hardened where required by the Ironclad Defense™ configuration package.
Optional: Enhanced Physical Security and the Ironclad Defense™ government configuration package.
Traditional encryption protects data at rest and in transit. Confidential computing extends that protection to data while it is actively being processed, using hardware-supported secure execution environments. Ironclad platforms can be configured to support these technologies for organizations with enhanced security, regulatory, sovereignty, or compliance requirements — as an optional configuration, not a standard feature.
| Capability | Standard | Optional |
|---|---|---|
| Single-Tenant Architecture | ✓ | |
| Private Networking | ✓ | |
| Continuous Monitoring | ✓ | |
| Secure Boot | ✓ | |
| Hardware Root of Trust | ✓ | |
| TPM 2.0 | ✓ | |
| Confidential Computing / TEE | ✓ | |
| Remote Attestation | ✓ | |
| Government Configuration Package | ✓ |
Every deployment includes continuous monitoring, scheduled reporting, and lifecycle management — fleet health, utilization, and capacity visible to your team, not just to ours. 24×7 infrastructure monitoring, predictive maintenance, and a dedicated operations team back a 99.95% SLA where contracted.
Every enclosure ships ISO-compatible for road, rail, and maritime transport. Platforms are engineered as long-term infrastructure assets — deployable, redeployable, and built for continued ownership value.
Infrastructure architecture, deployment specifications, and security documentation are shared during qualified technical evaluations.