You can buy a $2.4 million home in Texas with no bedrooms, one bathroom, and a liquid cooling immersion system

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WTF?! What do you look for in a home? Are lots of bedrooms a priority? Perhaps you crave a large but cozy living room with a built-in fireplace. If, however, you prefer a house with no bedrooms, one bathroom, and a full data center setup with a liquid cooling immersion system, there's a $2.4 million house in Texas just for you.

A recent Zillow listing shows off what initially appears to be a very impressive residential home located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb. Exterior shots of the large windows, arches, trees, and paving suggest the inside will be a multi-roomed mansion complete with features that reflect the high price tag.

Visitors walking through the door might be surprised to find a hall that looks like the entrance of a prison. In addition to the bulletproof-glass-covered reception area, sterile white tiles, and heavy industrial doors, there's a sign on the back wall that reads Crypto Collective, the name of the company that previously ran a cryptomining facility out of this house.

Despite outward appearances, the house is described as a turnkey Tier 2 Data Center once owned by AT&T. It comes with plenty of industrial tech, the highlight being a single-phase liquid cooling immersion system for use with dielectric coolant. It consists of a pump, 500kw Dry Cooler, and three Engineered Fluids "SLICTanks" that are currently filled with at least 80 mining rigs, though more machines could be added.

Other specs in the listing include five New HVAC Units, two separate power grids, a backup diesel generator, double safe room door, and a touchscreen whiteboard TV.

The single-story, 5,786-square-foot house comes with no bedrooms and just a single bathroom. Just in case anyone hadn't realized that this is an industrial facility, the listing suggests it could be used for running AI services, cloud hosting, servers, Bitcoin mining, or traditional data centers.

The house is just 20 minutes away from the center of Dallas and near two major highways. There are questions over how it's able to operate in a residential-zoned area, but it's obviously been used as an industrial site in the past.

Thanks, Tom's Hardware

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"There are questions over how it's able to operate in a residential-zoned area, but it's obviously been used as an industrial site in the past."

The country is 'littered' with telco 'central offices', very often disguised as homes or small commercial buildings. As cities grew around them, they couldn't just move them, so they were carved out in the zoning laws to continue providing service uninterrupted.
 
Pretty cool stuff if you're planning on running some pretty intense homelab or something... I mean you already got the HVAC, back up power and stuff already installed, extra security at the entrance.. so what else are you missing?

I didn't see mention of a kitchen. Does that washroom even have a shower?
 
Hydroponics lab serving micro-greens to downtown Dallas restaurants?
A next gen cannabis farm?
Or the perfect home for a video game enthusiast with an RTX 5090 GPU?
 
"There are questions over how it's able to operate in a residential-zoned area, but it's obviously been used as an industrial site in the past."

It's the same as grow ops, what the officials don't know about they won't do anything about. That's why I highly doubt the AT&T story. Some one took a residential home, gutted it and made it into a crypto site. Simple enough if no one knows, like they would with listing it for sa... oops.
 
"There are questions over how it's able to operate in a residential-zoned area, but it's obviously been used as an industrial site in the past."

It's the same as grow ops, what the officials don't know about they won't do anything about. That's why I highly doubt the AT&T story. Some one took a residential home, gutted it and made it into a crypto site. Simple enough if no one knows, like they would with listing it for sa... oops.

As I said, it's a former telco CO. It really isn't any more complex than that.
 
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