Data center equipment arrives heavy, dense, and on a schedule that the rest of the build depends on. Across the Memphis metro we rig the electrical and cooling plant into new halls and live facilities — generators into yards, switchgear into electrical rooms, cooling onto roofs, and racks onto raised floors.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides data center rigging in Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro. We rig generators, UPS modules and batteries, switchgear, PDUs, CRAH and chiller units, and loaded racks into new builds and live data centers — on routes and schedules set around the facility. Our crews work across Memphis and nearby Tennessee metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A data center is built around equipment that weighs more per square foot than almost anything else in a commercial building. Generators, UPS battery strings, and switchgear lineups have to land precisely on their pads and in their rooms, and in a live facility they have to do it without disturbing the halls that are already running. Around Memphis, the route, the floor loading, and the timing are planned before the first truck arrives.
Badass Logistics rigs the heavy plant for data centers — outside, by crane or by jacking and skidding, and inside on skates and air-ride. Electrical connection, battery commissioning, and testing stay with your electrical contractor and the OEM; we set what they connect. For the generators and transformers themselves, see transformer and generator rigging. How to move a data center →
Memphis's data center market includes xAI Colossus. New halls there arrive as a sequence of heavy deliveries — generators, switchgear, UPS, cooling — and each one has to land on its pad or in its room before the next trade can start.
Memphis, TN runs on America's distribution crossroads, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same data center rigging standards across the region:
Colocation halls, hyperscale campuses, and enterprise data rooms around Memphis are built on the same heavy electrical and cooling plant. The equipment we rig includes:
The power behind those halls is local too: Memphis Light, Gas and Water, TVA Allen Combined Cycle Plant, and Valero Memphis Refinery. Substation and transformer work for a new campus often runs alongside the hall itself. Outside the dedicated campuses, enterprise data rooms sit in the metro's wider building stock — the FedEx World Hub at Memphis International, the downtown Medical District with St. Jude and UTHSC, and the downtown towers and FedExForum carry the large central plant — where every delivery shares a dock and an elevator with a working building.
Standby generators and fuel systems set in yards and enclosures across the Memphis metro.
UPS modules, battery cabinets, switchgear, and PDUs moved into electrical rooms across the Memphis metro.
Cooling units, chillers, and condensers set inside and on roofs across the Memphis metro.
Loaded racks and cabinets moved on air-ride within live halls across the Memphis metro.
Plenty of Memphis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Long-lead gear for Memphis halls — power transformers, switchgear lineups, and generator sets — is often built far from the site. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern, making Memphis one of only a few US metros with five Class I railroads, with Canadian National operating its second-largest classification yard in the country here. The Port of Memphis on the Mississippi River at President's Island is one of the largest inland ports in the country, handling bulk grain, fertilizer and industrial cargo by barge. Each of those deliveries is booked against the construction schedule, so a late or damaged unit holds up every trade behind it.
Every data center rigging job in Memphis, TN is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Memphis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Memphis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Memphis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Data Center Rigging throughout Memphis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bartlett | Shelby County | 11 mi |
| Germantown | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Collierville | Shelby County | 23 mi |
| Southaven, MS | DeSoto County | 11 mi |
| Olive Branch, MS | DeSoto County | 18 mi |
| Millington | Shelby County | 16 mi |
| Horn Lake, MS | DeSoto County | 13 mi |
| West Memphis, AR | Crittenden County | 8 mi |
| Cordova | Shelby County | 15 mi |
| Ellendale | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Hernando, MS | DeSoto County | 23 mi |
| Forrest City, AR | St. Francis County | 43 mi |
| Lakeland | Shelby County | 18 mi |
| Marion, AR | Crittenden County | 10 mi |
| Arlington | Shelby County | 24 mi |
| Atoka | Tipton County | 25 mi |
| Covington | Tipton County | 37 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Memphis services or get a quote.
Most Memphis jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Memphis crew.
Memphis industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Memphis as one accountable job.
Memphis machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Memphis.
Memphis CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Memphis plants.
factory relocation in Memphis →In Memphis we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Memphis.
The same Memphis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Memphis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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