What this turn-key Knoxville, Tennessee data center for sale can support
This 1,209 sq ft Tier II data center for sale in West Knoxville, Tennessee provides enterprise-grade infrastructure capable of supporting multiple use cases — from colocation operations and disaster recovery to edge computing and managed service provider operations. As a carrier-neutral edge data center in Tennessee, this purpose-built facility offers proven systems and scalable architecture ready for immediate occupancy.
The facility is designed to support colocation hosting operations with secure cabinet infrastructure, redundant power/cooling, and carrier-neutral connectivity.
Companies seeking to own their IT infrastructure rather than renting cloud services can utilize this facility for complete operational control.
East Tennessee is a genuinely strong disaster recovery geography, and that is a specific, verifiable advantage rather than a marketing claim. Knoxville sits outside hurricane exposure, outside the New Madrid and Gulf Coast high-seismic zones, and away from coastal and river flood plains — on the TVA grid, which has one of the more stable reliability records in the Southeast.
For organizations whose primary facility is in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Memphis or anywhere along the Gulf, this location provides true out-of-region separation while remaining within a half-day drive for staff during a recovery event — the balance most DR site selections struggle to find. Compliance frameworks that require geographic separation between primary and recovery sites are readily satisfied at this distance.
Organizations deploying distributed infrastructure can use this facility as a regional edge node for low-latency applications, content delivery and inference compute. Because latency-sensitive workloads have to sit physically close to the users they serve, a right-sized regional facility is often a better fit than a distant hyperscale campus.
On capacity, we would rather be precise than promotional: this facility provides 80 KW of conditioned UPS capacity. That is not an AI training environment — a single modern training rack can exceed it, and the industry is now moving training infrastructure to 800 VDC architectures this building will never have. That door is closed and we will not pretend otherwise.
Inference is the opposite case. It runs at roughly 10–20 kW per rack on conventional AC power, and it has to sit close to the users it serves. At those densities 80 KW supports approximately 5–8 racks of compute serving East Tennessee, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities and upper Georgia — work that cannot be done as well from a hyperscale campus in another state.
MSPs can use this facility to consolidate client infrastructure, provide managed services, and deliver secure hosting solutions.
Organizations running hybrid cloud architectures can utilize this facility for on-premise infrastructure while maintaining cloud connectivity.
Regional hosting providers and small-to-mid-size businesses seeking to own their infrastructure rather than rent cloud or colocation space can operate this facility as a private or semi-private data center serving East Tennessee and the broader Appalachian corridor.
Organizations looking to move workloads out of expensive public cloud back to owned infrastructure — a growing trend as cloud costs escalate — can use this facility to host servers, storage, and applications at a predictable fixed cost.
A regional MSP reselling white-label colocation eventually reaches the point where the margin going to somebody else's facility exceeds what a small building of their own would cost to hold. This is a colocation facility for sale at the size where that crossover happens — large enough to become a colocation provider in your own right, small enough that one operator can carry it.
While the facility currently has 12 cabinets deployed, the infrastructure supports expansion to 24 cabinets without major modifications. This provides significant growth runway for expanding operations.
The facility includes all core infrastructure:
Items to evaluate based on your specific needs:
What running a facility this size actually demands is set out in full further down this page, discipline by discipline, so you can measure it against your own team rather than guess at it. Read that section.
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View Technical SpecificationsSix use cases are listed above because those are the shapes this building takes for most buyers. None of them is your workload. Yours has a specific rack count, a specific density, a specific redundancy requirement and probably one awkward constraint that does not appear on anybody's use-case card.
Describe it and you will get a straight answer, including a straight no. This facility protects 40 kW today and 80 kW after the Symmetra is scaled, with roughly 63 kW of N+1 cooling. If what you are planning does not fit inside that, the useful thing is to know now rather than after a site visit and a diligence period.
Run the numbers yourself first if you would rather not describe your environment to a stranger. The calculator does the same arithmetic without sending anything anywhere.
Most listings for infrastructure of this kind describe what is installed and stop there. That leaves the buyer to work out the harder question on his own, usually at two in the morning six weeks after closing. So here is the honest version of what a facility this size demands, discipline by discipline. Read it as a scope statement rather than a warning.
Module-level UPS maintenance and battery lifecycle, generator exercise and periodic load-bank testing, automatic transfer switch behaviour, and the acceptance windows that govern whether the UPS will actually take generator output. The failure nobody plans for is not the generator refusing to start. It is the generator starting correctly and the UPS declining its output because the voltage sits at the edge of the bypass window under load. Diagnosing that is a different skill from replacing batteries.
N+1 split systems, condensate management, and knowing what the utility bill is telling you. A compressor that has stopped cycling and begun running continuously shows up as a flat peak demand with sharply higher consumption, typically weeks before any temperature alarm fires. Reading that signature early is the difference between a drain cleaning and a compressor.
BGP session management, ARIN address-space administration, upstream carrier negotiation and the permissions that govern originating a customer's prefixes. Enterprise core and access switching, VLAN architecture, and a firewall estate. This is the discipline most often underestimated by buyers coming from a rented-cabinet background, because in a colocation arrangement somebody else has always owned it.
Fully loaded cost per kilowatt, PUE measured against actual utilisation rather than nameplate, and what those two numbers do to a pricing structure. A facility at low utilisation carries a cost per kW at or above the top of the retail market, which is survivable if you know it going in and painful if you discover it in year two.
Clean-agent suppression inspection and recertification schedules, access control administration and audit trails, camera retention, and the inspection calendar that keeps all of it current. Unglamorous, non-optional, and easy to let lapse.
Environmental sensing and alert thresholds, SNMP graphing so you can see a trend rather than an incident, and automated configuration backup for the network estate. The discipline that determines whether you find out about a problem from a graph or from a tenant.
Six domains, and most buyers arrive holding three or four of them. That is the normal shape of it, and it is not a reason to walk away from a building.
Infrastructure usually changes hands and the operating knowledge does not come with it. Whoever commissioned the power, sized the cooling, terminated the carriers and learned the building's particular habits moves on, and the buyer inherits a facility nobody can explain. Every unlabelled cable becomes a research project and every quirk is discovered the expensive way.
This floor has been run continuously since 2007 by the people who built it, and they remain available afterward on an ordinary consulting basis for as much or as little as a buyer wants: a commissioning walkthrough, a defined transition period, carrier and address-space work, or scheduled on-site hands for an owner who is not local.
Three things about that, stated plainly so nothing is ambiguous later. It is priced separately and is never a condition of the sale — buy the building, never call, and nothing about the transaction changes. The documentation, drawings and a full walkthrough convey with the property at no charge, which is all most buyers with their own engineers will want. And it is a separate commercial engagement between two companies, not a service attached to the building: nothing in it creates an operating obligation on the seller, a service level on the facility, or any continuing duty that survives the closing.
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That is a normal place to be. Ask the question you would ask if there were no consequence to asking it. Nobody is going to demand proof of funds before answering, and a question is not a signal of intent.
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