Complete infrastructure details — power, network, cooling, security, and cabinets
Data center terminology gets used loosely, so it is worth being precise about what this property is and is not. The categories differ on three things: physical scale, proximity to the workload, and what the facility is designed to do.
A micro data center is typically a self-contained enclosure holding one or two racks — the kind of prefabricated unit sold by Schneider Electric, Vertiv or Rittal and dropped onto a factory floor, into a retail back room, or at the base of a cell tower. It is a product, not a building.
A hyperscale data center sits at the opposite extreme: hundreds of thousands to millions of square feet, drawing tens or hundreds of megawatts, built by and for the largest cloud and AI operators.
An edge data center is the category in between — a smaller, decentralized facility positioned close to the users and data it serves, generally ranging from a single rack up to roughly fifty. Within that category, a regional edge data center is specifically defined as one covering a wider geography with greater processing and storage capacity than a micro deployment.
This facility is a regional edge data center. At 1,209 sq ft with 12 cabinets installed, capacity for 24, and 80 KW of conditioned UPS power, it is substantially more than a micro data center and categorically smaller than hyperscale. Its Tier II classification with N+1 redundancy describes how resilient it is; "regional edge data center" describes what it is for.
A Tier II data center has redundant capacity components for power and cooling — meaning spare units beyond what is required to carry the load — but a single distribution path serving them. In practice that is N+1 redundancy: if one cooling unit or one UPS module fails, a backup carries the load without interrupting operations. The facility is built to Tier II design standards and is not Uptime Institute certified.
Tier II is the practical sweet spot for regional colocation, managed service providers, disaster recovery sites and enterprise private infrastructure. Tier III and IV add fully independent distribution paths and 2N redundancy at substantially higher capital and operating cost — necessary for hyperscale operators, but well beyond what most regional workloads require. This facility is Tier II with N+1 redundancy, not 2N.
Power is the single hardest thing to add to a building, and it is already here and energized — no utility interconnection queue, no upgrade project. The 80 KW of conditioned UPS capacity supports a conventional colocation load across 12–24 cabinets, or roughly 5–8 racks of higher-density compute at the 10–15 kW per rack densities typical of inference and edge workloads.
Carrier-neutral connectivity is one of this facility's strongest technical assets. Five fiber providers already have infrastructure at the building, which means a buyer negotiates bandwidth directly and competitively rather than being captive to a single upstream. For a carrier-neutral data center in Tennessee at this size, five in-building carriers is uncommon at this size.
For network operators evaluating a BGP data center for sale, the routing layer is already built: enterprise Cisco equipment with BGP capability. IP address space and AS number are not included in the sale — a buyer may bring their own or license the seller’s allocation separately rather than renumbering into a provider's.
Understand the cost savings and revenue opportunities
See Cost Analysis Request Lease-to-Own TermsA spec sheet answers what is installed. It does not answer the question a technical buyer is really carrying, which is whether something is quietly wrong with the facility — because if it were as clean as it reads, why is it still on the market?
The honest answer is that a 1,209 sq ft purpose-built data center has a small buyer pool and a financing problem, not a condition problem. The equipment is enterprise-grade and has been running since 2007. It is also eighteen years old, the Symmetra is configured at half its rated capacity, and the IP allocation does not convey. All of that is on this site because you would find it in week two of diligence anyway.
If you have a specific technical concern, send it. Bring your own engineer to a site visit and let them pull the maintenance records. That is the correct way to buy infrastructure and nobody here will be offended by it.
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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.
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