News $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts 'Full Liquid Cooling Immersion System' and 5,786 sq ft data center built in

[Admin]

A Zillow listing for a $2.4 million "house", really a datacenter in disguise, in Dallas has been found on X, formerly Twitter. If you have corporate data center needs and want to work in a Texas suburb, this listing is for you.

$2.4 million Texas home listing boasts 'Full Liquid Cooling Immersion System' and 5,786 sq ft data center built in : Read more

 

[bit_user]

I could imagine some professional e-sports organization buying it.

Looking through the pics, that cinderblock hallway with the (seemingly) bullet proof window really caught me by surprise.

 

[foogoo]

Huh? Hmmm. Oh! No…..I don’t understand.

 

[bill001g]

I wonder how they got a permit for that. All the houses around it were built around 1960 so no HOA to stop them i guess.
Seems it was once owned by ATT but it is strange they would put it in a older residential area.

 

[bit_user]

I wonder how they got a permit for that. All the houses around it were built around 1960 so no HOA to stop them i guess.
Seems it was once owned by ATT but it is strange they would put it in a older residential area.

You mean AT&T - the phone company? Maybe there was a local switching station there? That could explain how the location didn't need to be re-zoned for it.

 

[PEnns]

"The "Crypto Collective" branding betrays the former life of the unit, which served admirably as a crypto mining base."

Well, that explains everything.

 

[bit_user]

Well, that explains everything.

Except for why that building was permitted in a residential zone!

 

[thestryker]

A friend I shared this with simply responded "well It's Texas so I guess there's no zoning requirements" which is sadly somewhat believable.

 

[mdd1963]

Such a listing might interest perhaps two or three potential buyers in the USA...

 

[jlake3]

I wonder how they got a permit for that. All the houses around it were built around 1960 so no HOA to stop them i guess.
Seems it was once owned by ATT but it is strange they would put it in a older residential area.

I'd bet that at the same time they were building out those houses they were building out the telecom infrastructure in the area, and someone involved with city planning asked them to dress it up as a fake house rather than an unsightly concrete bunker. Eventually improvements in switching and infrastructure meant ATT no longer needed the building, but possibly due to zoning and all the network infrastructure burred on the property, it couldn't be turned back into a residential property.

Not sure if the immersion cooling and crypto mining makes sense, but feels like there might be a niche for being some type of off-site compute or data storage for clients in the Dallas area? Low latency, you can drive over and check on things if need be, and it's a second location that sounds pretty disaster resistant.

 

[endocine]

Article says "mineral oil" but its likely a PFAS based flourinert type coolant, which means the place is a future superfund site

 

[bit_user]

Article says "mineral oil" but its likely a PFAS based flourinert type coolant, which means the place is a future superfund site

It did say single-phase cooling. Is fluorinert single-phase or 2-phase? I thought the really bad stuff was 2-phase.

 

[PEnns]

Except for why that building was permitted in a residential zone!

It's Texas. Anything goes and where regulations and ordinances (even if they exist) are meant to be ignored or bypassed.

Heck, the governor even advertises the "no-cumbersome laws or ordinances" aspect to lure businesses, shady or otherwise.

 

[Bonzadog]

I could imagine some professional e-sports organization buying it.

Looking through the pics, that cinderblock hallway with the (seemingly) bullet proof window really caught me by surprise.

E-Sports - no such thing. Gaming is not a sport it stops one from doing creative things.

 

[eZAK61]

It maybe too small for China and Russia, But would be perfect for Iran or North Korea! 😀

 

[TechLurker]

I'm not interested in buying it even if I had the money, but I do enjoy stories of false facades done to hide what was really in them. In fact, some things like this were common way back when, with a fake house built just to provide a cover for a community's phone service switchboard, or later, some of the early cable or internet lines.