A cage at Akashi in Astana is not a lockable cabinet in a shared row, and it is not a private suite. On the Akashi Data Center campus the middle product is a private cage: a dedicated slice of the server hall, a stronger perimeter, a layout adapted to the business, and entry limited to people on your list. DC-1 opens in May 2027. Until that date the site takes a reservation of the zone’s makeup, not a delivery into a hall already handed over.
The wider route from request to format to reservation is in Where to place servers in Kazakhstan. What follows is the cage only.
When a cage fits better than a cabinet or a hall
Cabinet rental covers one lockable rack. On the product page: 1200 mm width, a coded lock, dual PDUs, up to 20 kW (the wording includes AI/ML). The commercial step runs from 1 cabinet to 1,000+. That is a shop-window range, not a campus cap: the design holds 4,224 racks, four buildings, 11 hectares.
A dedicated server room is the other end of the scale: a whole room, cooling / access / monitoring / fire suppression set to that room, and on-site desks for the team.
A cage sits in the gap. The hardware stays yours; it is not rental of someone else’s server and not a cloud. You get a contour around several racks without leasing the entire hall. A non-standard footprint that will not sit in a 1200 mm cabinet belongs inside the cage perimeter. The cabinet as a product is in the rack rental guide; the hall as a product is in dedicated server room rental in Astana.
Who crosses the fence, and what stands inside
A cage has enhanced perimeter protection, access control tuned to the client, and a flexible layout of the equipment. The isolated zone: authorized staff only, 24/7. The admitted-people list is better built before delivery — it is not a PIN on a single door.
Inside the perimeter, typical and non-standard server cabinets of any size can stand. The layout is fixed when the configuration is calculated, not “on the unloading dock”.
The campus physical contour is shared: multi-layer access and 24/7 CCTV. Remote hands is available 24/7; the scope of work is discussed with sales.
Cage power and campus supply
Power delivery is guaranteed for the load of your Cage. Kilowatts for the zone are agreed in the request.
The cage sits on the campus feeds, not on a private mini-substation. In the design that means two 110 kV sources in an active/active scheme, UPS 5/4N with a battery window of up to 10 minutes, generators covering 12 hours at full load, and two fuel suppliers with an SLA of 4 hours. The campus fire layer is triple detection, gas, dual suppression redundancy. Floor load 2 t/m², raised floor 1.6 m; two terminals with freight elevators.
Campus address: street C316, site 7, Astana. Four independent optical entries onto the East–West corridor. The operator set is not fixed in the general note.
Reservation, May 2027, and TCDD is not TCCF
Phase one is May 2027. Public build progress sits on construction-progress. Until that date the conversation is a configuration reservation.
By design DC-1 carries 5.28 MW of IT. The reserved volume is already 5.54 MW. The pre-launch pipeline is 107% of DC-1 capacity. Those two megawatt figures do not add up to a “free remainder”.
Phase-one documents hold Uptime TCDD Tier IV. TCDD confirms the design. TCCF is a separate on-site audit of the constructed facility, dated April 2027 on the calendar; there is no TCCF certificate today. TCDD is not TCCF. The Tier IV topology calculation is 99.995%; that is not a measured outage of a given cage. Standard context is on the Tier IV page; the contract layer is in the SLA checklist.
What to put in the request
The form is contacts, consultation block. In the request text it helps to say at once: a separate perimeter is required; how many racks and which footprint (1200 mm or non-standard); how many kilowatts for the zone; who is on the access list; whether remote hands is needed; which date relative to May 2027. Sales replies within one business day, runs a pre-qualification and a capacity check, and sends a proposal with prices, timelines and technical detail. There are no shop-window list prices. An NDA is available on request. Email and phone: sales.department@akashi.cloud, +7 700 810 3010.
Need an isolated zone in Astana, not one rack and not a whole hall? Use the request link above — we will go through the perimeter, the racks, the kilowatts and the reservation before May 2027.
Frequently asked questions
What is a cage at the Akashi data center? A dedicated section of the server hall with enhanced perimeter protection and a layout set to the client’s work. Only authorized staff enter, around the clock, without renting a whole hall. The first phase launches in May 2027.
How does a cage differ from a cabinet and a dedicated hall? A cabinet is one lockable rack, up to 20 kW. A cage is an isolated multi-rack zone with its own perimeter. A dedicated hall is a whole room under the client’s control, including custom engineering and on-site workspaces for the team.
Who can enter the cage, and which racks go inside? Only staff with authorization enter the zone, 24/7. Standard and non-standard server cabinets of any size are supported inside; the layout within the perimeter is flexible.
When will the cage be available, and can a team move in now? With the first-phase launch in May 2027. Until the hall opens, the configuration is reserved. The pre-launch pipeline is 107% of DC-1 capacity: against the 5.28 MW design IT load of DC-1, 5.54 MW is reserved.
Does TCDD mean the cage already sits in a certified constructed hall? No. Phase one holds Uptime TCDD Tier IV: certification of the design documents, not of the built hall. The TCCF audit is planned for April 2027. TCDD is not TCCF.