$2.4 Million Texas Home Listing Boasts Built-In 5,786 sq ft Data Center (tomshardware.com) 34
A Zillow listing for a $2.4 million house in a Dallas suburb is grabbing attention for its 5,786-square-foot data center with immersion cooling tanks, massive server racks, and two separate power grids. Tom's Hardware reports: With a brick exterior, cute paving, and mini-McMansion arch stylings, the building certainly looks to be a residential home for the archetypal Texas family. Prospective home-buyers will thus be disappointed by the 0 bedroom, 1 bathroom setup, which becomes a warehouse-feeling office from the first step inside where you are met with a glass-shielded reception desk in a white-brick corridor. The "Crypto Collective" branding betrays the former life of the unit, which served admirably as a crypto mining base.
The purchase of the "upgraded turnkey Tier 2 Data Center" will include all of its cooling and power infrastructure. Three Engineered Fluids "SLICTanks," single-phase liquid immersion cooling tanks for use with dielectric coolant, will come with pumps and a 500kW dry cooler. The tanks are currently filled with at least 80 mining computers visible from the photos, though the SLICTanks can be configured to fit more machines. Also visible in proximity to the cooling array is a deep row of classic server racks and a staggering amount of networking.
The listing advertises a host of potential uses for future customers, from "AI services, cloud hosting, traditional data center, servers or even Bitcoin Mining". Also packed into the 5,786 square feet of real estate is two separate power grids, 5 HVAC units, a hefty amount of four levels of warehouse-style storage aisles, a lounge/office space, and a fully-paved backyard. In other good news, its future corporate residents will not have an HOA to deal with, and will only be 20 minutes outside of the heart of Dallas, sitting just out of earshot of two major highways.
The purchase of the "upgraded turnkey Tier 2 Data Center" will include all of its cooling and power infrastructure. Three Engineered Fluids "SLICTanks," single-phase liquid immersion cooling tanks for use with dielectric coolant, will come with pumps and a 500kW dry cooler. The tanks are currently filled with at least 80 mining computers visible from the photos, though the SLICTanks can be configured to fit more machines. Also visible in proximity to the cooling array is a deep row of classic server racks and a staggering amount of networking.
The listing advertises a host of potential uses for future customers, from "AI services, cloud hosting, traditional data center, servers or even Bitcoin Mining". Also packed into the 5,786 square feet of real estate is two separate power grids, 5 HVAC units, a hefty amount of four levels of warehouse-style storage aisles, a lounge/office space, and a fully-paved backyard. In other good news, its future corporate residents will not have an HOA to deal with, and will only be 20 minutes outside of the heart of Dallas, sitting just out of earshot of two major highways.
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Not news - listed before in 2021 (Score:5, Interesting)
how is this still residential-zoned and how did th (Score:2)
how is this still residential-zoned and how did they get the power co to run dual grid to an house?
Re:how is this still residential-zoned and how did (Score:4, Interesting)
https://zillow.zendesk.com/hc/... [zendesk.com]
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how is this still residential-zoned and how did they get the power co to run dual grid to an house?
Did you notice the other poster in this thread that posted a link to an older real estate offering of the same property that said it is a former AT&T data center?
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The DFW area housing market just keeps going up, mainly due to 'transplants' from other states
Demand for any size standalone home or apartment just keeps outpacing supply in the DFW area market.
Water supply is already restricted, partly due to high demand, partly due to drought, and partly due to lack of new lakes being built in past 30 years.
ERCOT, the electric power grid manager in TX, says that electricity supply could soon be "very tight" as well during this summer.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texa... [kxan.com]
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Just responding to his racist shit. If he wasn't posting racist shit he wouldn't have been slammed for it.
Tough shit if him, you or anyone else can dish it out but can't take it back. He should have been modded down into oblivion but I strongly believe in directly and loudly confronting and calling out racist assholes.
This is an old AT&T PoP. I live near it. (Score:5, Informative)
This was an AT&T PoP that was installed in a neighborhood where city & deed restrictions required it to blend in with the surrounding homes.
This was built before the AT&T GPON (gigabit passive optical network) fiber network when they actually had to have powered equipment closer to the homes.
Once GPON fiber was rolled out it was no longer needed.
Re:This is an old AT&T PoP. I live near it. (Score:5, Interesting)
On another note... this is common for lots of things. Not be surprised if the house three doors down is actually a pumping station for the sewer (lift station). Or is a transformer site for the power company.
https://indyweek.com/news/arch... [indyweek.com]
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Strange that the article you posted didn't include an outside photo. Here it is from google maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/@3... [google.com]
We have stuff like that where I live, but the little pumping stations are much, much smaller. They look like a tiny brick houses, complete with a pitched roofs.
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I wonder how much doing that increases the cost of building the pump station. I like the idea in general, though.
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My neighbor's home is really an adjunct of Area 51. I peaked through the fence once and saw a few forgot to put their heads on.
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I was going to say this only looks like a home from the exterior. It's clearly nothing but a datacenter.
3X Appraised Value (Score:3)
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Hard to know equipment condition, but valuing the internals at $1 million would be reasonable enough, if everything has been maintained. For AT&T it was likely much lower density so upgrades would have been needed.
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Itâ(TM)s only worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. You can pretend itâ(TM)s worth whatever you want, but reality is just around the corner.
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Hard to know equipment condition
If what the other posts are saying is correct then the equipment condition is "obsolete". This doesn't look like general purpose computers or even look like its setup for bitcoin mining. The thing of value here may be the electrical connection, network connection, and the cooling system.
0 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom (Score:2)
Despite the spin, as others have already pointed out - this is not a "home" by any stretch of the imagination. I don't understand why Zillow is listing it as a "single family residence".
A smart move... (Score:1)
yeah but.. (Score:2)
Crisis LAN parties?
WFH? (Score:2)
This building redefines the meaning of WFH.
This belongs in r/homelab (Score:2)
No doubt someone there would buy it.
Is this place named Espersium? (Score:2)
Espersium, Veppers' estate, had "computational substrate" under all the roadways and paths on the estate, and that's where the Hells were implemented...
"Surface Detail"
Obligatory Iain Banks reference
Fugly (Score:2)
Surely not all homes in texas are this hideous?
They're moving to Paraguay (Score:1)
I'm Engineered Fluids, manufacturer of the Immersion Cooling system. The owners of this DC are a church that got a big windfall donation a couple of years ago and invested it all in BitCoin mining. They're now picking up and moving to Paraguay, where I hear that they got a better deal on electricity in the Foz de Iguaçu region.