Edge Data Center For Sale — Knoxville, Tennessee

A turnkey regional edge data center for sale in Hardin Valley, West Knoxville, Tennessee. Available for immediate cash purchase or lease-to-own owner financing. Move your infrastructure in on Day 1 and bypass bank underwriting entirely.

A Hardin Valley data center for sale — a small, operational, turnkey data center in East Tennessee, not a hyperscale campus.

Hardin Valley, West Knoxville • Purpose-built since 2007 • No construction delays • Immediate occupancy

1,209 Total Sq Ft
800 AMPs Power
12-24 Cabinet Capacity
Tier II Design Standards

What's For Sale: Real Estate & Infrastructure Only

This is a commercial real estate transaction — the sale of a 1,209 sq ft turn-key data center building and all installed infrastructure (power, cooling, network equipment, cabinets, fire suppression, and security systems).

This is not the sale of an operating business. No client contracts, customer base, recurring revenue, employees, or business goodwill are included. The buyer acquires the physical facility and infrastructure to operate as they choose.

Two Common Ways to Acquire This Facility

Outright Cash Purchase

Standard commercial real estate transaction. Close, take possession, and move your equipment in immediately.

  • Single closing
  • Full ownership on Day 1
  • Listed price available through our commercial realtor
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Lease-to-Own / Owner Financing

Skip bank financing red tape. Occupy the facility now and apply monthly payments toward ownership.

  • Upfront option fee secures the deal
  • Move in and operate from Day 1
  • A portion of monthly payments credits toward purchase
  • Specific terms available through our commercial realtor
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Neither One Quite Fits? Tell Us What Does.

These are the two most common structures, not the only ones. A longer term, a staged buyout, a lease with a purchase option, or taking part of the facility rather than all of it are all worth a conversation. We would rather hear what actually works on your end and see whether we can build around it than have you walk because the menu was too short.

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Owning Versus Renting Rack Space

If you currently rent cabinets from a colocation provider, every renewal costs more and you own nothing at the end of it. This is the alternative. Buy a data center in Tennessee outright, or through lease-to-own owner financing — and note that an operational data center for sale at this size very rarely comes to market at all. This operational, turnkey Tier II data center for sale offers 1,209 square feet of enterprise-grade infrastructure in the Hardin Valley area of West Knoxville, East Tennessee — with 800 AMPs of dedicated power, 80 KW of conditioned UPS capacity, BGP routing, N+1 redundant cooling, and five fiber carriers already in the building. Replicating this facility new costs $1.2M–$1.5M and takes 12–18 months. Buying it eliminates both.

Save $300K-500K+

Building a comparable facility from scratch costs $1.2M-$1.5M. This turn-key facility saves massive construction costs.

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Operational Today

Skip 12-18 months of construction and permitting. Power, cooling, suppression and fiber are installed and running — take possession and move equipment in.

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Proven Infrastructure

Enterprise-grade equipment from APC, Cisco, Fike, and Mitsubishi. Operating reliably since 2007.

Technical Specs

If you rent cabinets today, the useful comparison is against your own invoice, not against these figures. Put your cabinet count, power and current bill into the calculator and see what the same footprint costs here — itemised, with the lease-to-own price and monthly moving as you change the down payment.

What the Base Price Includes

Power Systems

  • 800 AMPs dedicated service
  • Symmetra 40kW UPS (scalable to 80kW)
  • 400-gallon diesel generator
  • Automatic transfer switch

Network & Connectivity

  • 5 fiber carriers at building
  • Enterprise Cisco routing (BGP)
  • 10GbE infrastructure
  • IP address space not included — available separately

Cooling Systems

  • Mitsubishi split air handlers
  • N+1 redundant capacity
  • Temperature/humidity sensors
  • Continuous monitoring

Security & Access

  • Kantech 3-layer access control
  • Night Owl camera system
  • 24/7 video recording
  • Secure cabinet cages

Fire Protection

  • Fike Ecaro 25 clean-agent system
  • Full data floor coverage
  • No water damage risk
  • Professionally maintained

Cabinet Infrastructure

  • 12 APC Netshelter SX 42U cabinets
  • Capacity for 24 total cabinets
  • Locking secure cabinets
  • Overhead cable management
Also included: Two furnished office spaces (~100 sq ft each) with direct data center access. Perfect for NOC operations, customer meetings, or administrative staff.

What Is Not Included

Stating this plainly up front saves everyone a round of diligence. This is a real estate and infrastructure transaction. Three things a buyer might reasonably assume are included are not.

IP Address Space

The autonomous IPv4 allocation and AS number belong to the seller’s operating company and do not convey. Bring your own space, or license the seller’s separately. The Cisco routing and switching hardware is included and is BGP-capable.

Carrier Circuits

Five carriers have fiber terminated in the building and that physical entry conveys. The active service contracts do not — circuits are agreements between a carrier and an operator, and a buyer contracts for their own.

Business Assets

No client contracts, customer base, recurring revenue, employees or goodwill are included. This is the sale of a building and its installed infrastructure, not of an operating business.

Available separately, at the buyer’s option: IP address space, and a transition engagement with the people who have run this floor since 2007. Priced independently, never a condition of the sale, and creating no operating obligation on the facility. We have written down in full what operating a building this size actually demands, discipline by discipline, so you can measure it against your own team rather than guess.

The Usable Power Envelope

Listings advertise service amperage because it is the largest number available. It is not the number that determines what you can actually deploy. Here is the honest version.

800 AMPs

Dedicated utility service from LCUB. This is the ceiling of what the building can draw, not what is protected.

40 kW

Conditioned, UPS-protected load available today, from the APC Symmetra PX as currently configured.

80 kW

Protected capacity after scaling the Symmetra. The frame supports it; additional modules are required.

27 tons

Mitsubishi cooling in N+1. Roughly 63 kW of heat rejection with one unit held in reserve.

What this means in cabinets: At a conventional 3 kW per cabinet, the installed UPS supports roughly 13 cabinets today and about 20 after the Symmetra is scaled, with cooling as the practical ceiling above that. A buyer planning 15 or more cabinets should budget for the UPS expansion as part of the acquisition. We would rather you know that now than find it during commissioning.

How Buyers Use a Facility This Size

Buyers at this size are generally solving one of a few problems. The facility supports each of the following; none of them is a projection of what a buyer would earn.

Colocation Hosting

Operate a colocation business in a turn-key Tier II facility. 12 APC cabinets deployed today with capacity for 24 total, carrier-neutral fiber, and N+1 cooling.

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Enterprise Private Infrastructure

Own the building your infrastructure lives in. Full control over physical access, power, cooling, and network — without an ongoing cloud or colo bill.

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MSP Operations Hub

Consolidate managed services, backup, and disaster recovery operations into a facility you control. Two on-site office spaces accommodate local NOC and field staff.

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Commercial Real Estate Asset

A specialized commercial property in a growing West Knoxville corridor. Purpose-built infrastructure in place since 2007, with documented technical specifications available on request.

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Who Buys a Small Data Center Like This?

This is not a hyperscale campus. It is a right-sized, operational Tier II facility for buyers who need real infrastructure without a $50M budget or an 18-month build. If you recognize yourself below, this property was priced and structured for you.

Regional MSPs & IT Service Providers

You rent 5–15 cabinets today and the renewal goes up every term. Buying a data center for your MSP converts a permanent expense into an owned asset — and lets you resell space at full margin instead of reselling someone else's. The two on-site offices work as a regional NOC.

Colocation Tenants Facing Renewal Increases

If your colocation renewal just came back 15–40% higher, you are already running the own-vs-rent math. This is the alternative to colocation rent: a fixed monthly cost under lease-to-own, 800 AMPs already energized, and no power pass-through surprises.

Cloud Repatriation Buyers

When your AWS or Azure bill becomes the largest line in the IT budget, moving steady-state workloads back to owned infrastructure changes the economics. This facility gives you a private cloud footprint with predictable, capitalizable cost instead of a variable monthly invoice.

Disaster Recovery & Second-Site Buyers

East Tennessee sits outside hurricane exposure, outside the New Madrid Seismic Zone and away from the Gulf Coast flood corridor, on the TVA grid. At 110 miles from Chattanooga, 175 from Nashville and 200 from Atlanta, it offers genuine separation of hazard and utility territory while staying close enough to drive for hands-on recovery — a credible out-of-region disaster recovery site for organizations whose primary facility is in those markets.

Regional ISPs, WISPs & Network Operators

Five carriers are already in the building — Comcast/Xfinity, WOW, LCUB, Iris Networks and AT&T — The Cisco routing and switching hardware conveys and is BGP-capable; IP address space and AS number do not convey. A carrier-neutral facility for sale with real carrier diversity is rare at this size.

Edge & Inference Compute Operators

This facility is not built for AI model training — training racks alone draw more than its entire capacity. It is, however, honestly sized for inference: at typical 10–15 kW rack densities, 80 KW supports roughly 5–8 racks of low-latency compute positioned close to East Tennessee end users.

Lease-to-Own & Owner Financing Available

Specialty properties like data centers are notoriously difficult to finance conventionally — most banks have no framework for underwriting them. Owner financing removes that obstacle entirely.

No Bank Required

Buy this data center without bank financing. No commercial loan committee, no specialty-asset appraisal problem, no months of underwriting on a property type lenders rarely see.

Occupy Immediately

Move equipment in and begin operating while payments are still underway. You are not waiting on a closing timeline to start using the facility.

Build Equity Monthly

A portion of each monthly payment applies toward ownership — unlike colocation rent, which builds equity for your provider rather than for you.

How Lease-to-Own Works Request Lease-to-Own Terms

Specific pricing, down payment and payment schedules are provided by our commercial realtor following your inquiry.

Strategic Knoxville, Tennessee Data Center Location

West Knoxville / Hardin Valley

2575 Willow Point Way, Suite 103, Knoxville, TN 37931

  • Growing business corridor
  • Easy I-40 and I-75 access
  • No hurricane or coastal flood exposure
  • TVA-supplied grid, regulated rates

Tennessee Business Advantages

  • No state income tax
  • Business-friendly regulations
  • Low operating costs
  • Strong fiber infrastructure
  • Growing tech ecosystem
  • Stable political environment

Frequently Asked Questions About This Data Center For Sale

How much does it cost to build a data center?

Building a comparable 1,200 sq ft Tier II data center from scratch costs between $1.2M-$1.5M and takes 12-18 months to complete. This includes construction, power infrastructure, cooling systems, fire suppression, security, and networking equipment. This turn-key facility in Knoxville eliminates those data center construction costs and delays entirely. You can compare that against what you are paying now in the data center cost calculator.

Where is this data center located in Tennessee?

Located at 2575 Willow Point Way, Suite 103 in the West Knoxville / Hardin Valley area of Knoxville, Tennessee. As a small data center for sale in Tennessee it sits in the East Tennessee corridor, with easy access to I-40 and I-75, outside hurricane and coastal flood exposure and outside the New Madrid Seismic Zone, and is served by the TVA grid through LCUB at regulated rates.

What type of data center is this?

This facility is built to Tier II design standards, with redundant power and cooling components in an N+1 configuration. It is not certified by the Uptime Institute; no certification is claimed or conveyed. It includes 800 AMPs of power, UPS battery backup, diesel generator, enterprise Cisco networking with BGP routing, and complete fire suppression and security systems.

Can this facility support colocation operations?

Yes, this turn-key data center is ideal for colocation hosting operations. It currently has 12 APC Netshelter server cabinets deployed with capacity to expand to 24 cabinets. The facility includes secure cabinet caging, individual cabinet power distribution, carrier-neutral fiber access from 5 providers, and N+1 redundant cooling.

What network connectivity is available?

The facility has carrier-neutral connectivity with 5 fiber providers at the building: Comcast/Xfinity, WOW, LCUB, Iris Networks, and AT&T. Enterprise Cisco routing and switching hardware is included in the sale and is BGP-capable. IP address space and AS number are not included; a buyer may bring their own or license the seller's allocation separately. 10GbE infrastructure is installed throughout the data center.

Is the facility operational or does it need build-out?

This is a fully operational, turn-key data center that has been running since 2007. All infrastructure is installed and proven: power systems, cooling, fire suppression, security, networking, and server cabinets. You can begin operations immediately upon acquisition with zero construction delays.

Is lease-to-own or owner financing available?

Yes. This property is available either as a cash purchase or through a structured lease-to-own agreement with owner financing. Data centers are specialty assets that conventional lenders often struggle to underwrite, so owner financing lets a qualified buyer occupy the facility and begin operating while applying a portion of monthly payments toward ownership — without waiting on a commercial loan committee. Specific terms, down payment and payment schedules are provided by our commercial realtor following an inquiry.

Is this a good alternative to renting colocation space?

That is the most common reason buyers look at this property. If you currently rent 5–15 cabinets, your renewal cost rises each term and you own nothing at the end. Buying a small data center in Tennessee converts that permanent operating expense into an owned asset — and for MSPs and IT service providers, it means reselling space at full margin rather than reselling another provider's capacity. The two on-site offices support local NOC or field staff.

How much power capacity does this facility have?

The facility has 800 AMPs of dedicated utility service, an 80 KW 208V primary PDU in an ISO transformer, and an APC Symmetra PX UPS rated at 40 kW and scalable to 80 kW in an N+1 configuration. A 400-gallon diesel generator with automatic transfer switch provides backup. In practical terms, 80 KW of conditioned capacity supports a traditional colocation load across 12–24 cabinets, or roughly 5–8 racks of higher-density compute at typical 10–15 kW inference densities.

Is this an AI data center?

No, and it would be misleading to market it as one. AI training racks routinely draw 30–130 kW each — a single high-end training rack exceeds this entire facility's 80 KW capacity — and the industry is moving training infrastructure toward 800 VDC power architectures that this building will never have. That category is closed to a facility this size.

The useful distinction is that AI compute is splitting in two directions. Training is consolidating into ever-denser hyperscale campuses. Inference — actually serving AI responses, which is now the majority of ongoing AI compute — is doing the opposite: spreading outward toward end users, because latency requires it, and running at roughly 10–20 kW per rack on conventional power. This facility sits on that second curve, not the first. At those densities, 80 KW supports approximately 5–8 racks of regional edge compute. Read the full explanation.

Where exactly in East Tennessee is this located?

The facility is at 2575 Willow Point Way, Suite 103, in the Hardin Valley area of West Knoxville, Tennessee 37931. Hardin Valley is one of Knox County's fastest-growing business corridors, with direct access to I-40 and I-75. For buyers searching for a data center for sale in East Tennessee, this location also serves Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities and upper Georgia within a short drive.

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You do not have to be ready to buy anything to ask a question. Most people who end up acquiring a facility like this spend weeks working out whether the idea is sound before they speak to anyone, usually because there is nobody in their world who has done it and nobody they can ask without tipping their hand.

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.

This is a commercial real estate and infrastructure transaction. No client contracts, customer base, recurring revenue, employees or goodwill are included.

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