Beyond outright purchase and lease-to-own, this Hardin Valley facility is available as a commercial real property lease — the whole 1,209 sq ft suite, or a demised portion of the data floor. Energized 800 AMP service, generator backup, clean-agent suppression and five fiber carriers, in a market where new capacity is not being built.
A tenant leases a defined, demised area of the facility together with the installed infrastructure serving it. The tenant installs and operates its own equipment, controls physical access to its own space, and holds a leasehold interest in real property.
There is no per-cabinet or per-rack product here. No bundled bandwidth, no remote hands, no managed services, no service-level agreement of the kind a colocation provider sells. Those are operating-business arrangements and are not part of this offering.
The distinction is deliberate rather than a limitation. A lease that bundles operational services stops being a property lease and becomes a service contract carrying uptime obligations, which is not what either side is signing here. A tenant who wants technical assistance can contract for it separately — an engagement between two companies, negotiated and priced on its own terms, forming no part of the lease, creating no landlord duty and attaching no service level to the building.
At 1,209 square feet the room does not subdivide indefinitely. Realistically that means one whole-suite tenant, or one demised-portion tenant alongside a retained area — not a multi-tenant floor plan.
The entire facility under a single lease
Cleanest structure. The tenant operates the room as their own and the landlord's obligations end at the demising wall. Suits an operator who wants control without a capital purchase.
A defined, separately secured area of the data floor
The facility already includes a secondary cage area with its own subfeed, which is the natural candidate for demising. Exact boundaries, allocated capacity and shared-systems responsibility are defined in the lease.
Existing APC Netshelter SX 42U cabinets on the floor may be included in a lease by negotiation.
Leasing tends to fit organizations that need the room and the certainty, but for whom a purchase is the wrong instrument — whether because of balance-sheet treatment, approval timelines, or simple horizon.
A warm-standby footprint rarely justifies buying a building. Knoxville sits 110 miles from Chattanooga, 175 from Nashville and 200 from Atlanta — genuine separation of hazard exposure and utility territory, close enough to drive for hands-on recovery. DR loads are storage-heavy and compute-light, which fits a demised portion well.
An operator whose colocation renewal keeps climbing but who is not ready to buy. A lease on a demised area gives defined space with defined cost, plus physical control that a cabinet contract does not provide.
Moving steady-state workloads off public cloud needs somewhere to land. A lease lets a company prove the economics on real infrastructure before committing capital to owning a facility.
Five carriers at the building, BGP-capable Cisco infrastructure and a Knox County address. For an ISP, WISP or CDN that needs presence rather than ownership, a demised area is usually the right size of commitment.
Whole-suite leases are typically written triple-net or modified gross. Demised-portion leases require the shared-systems responsibility to be spelled out — who maintains the UPS plant, the generator, the cooling and the suppression system, and how those costs are apportioned. That allocation is the substance of the negotiation and it is settled in the lease document, not on a website.
An indicative rate is published: the cost calculator prices a demised portion per cabinet and caps at a whole-suite figure, with power metered separately at the utility rate. Term length, escalations, security deposit and any improvement allowance are settled with our commercial realtor, and the final rate depends on which structure applies and how much conditioned capacity is allocated. Use the calculator to see whether the number is in range for you before you ask for a quote.
A lease does not withdraw the property from the market. Outright purchase and lease-to-own owner financing both remain available. Where a prospective tenant expects to buy later, that intent can be reflected in how the lease is written — including how it interacts with a future purchase.
Tell us roughly what you need — how much space, how much power, and for how long. Our commercial realtor will follow up with terms appropriate to the structure that fits.
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