A McMansion for sale in Far North Dallas for $2.4 million isn’t what it seems.
There are no bedrooms. The windows are decorative. The lawn is mowed but no one is home. Behind the brick facade is 12 inches of reinforced concrete.
One of the city’s strangest “houses” isn’t actually a house — it just looks like a house — and it’s garnering attention on the Internet.
The 5,786-square-foot facility at 13229 Southview Lane is a small data center touted as a multi-purpose facility ideal for everything from cloud hosting to AI services.
The upgraded second tier data centre is running a full liquid cooling immersion system, complete with all equipment.
The facility includes three-phase power, dual power grids, backup diesel generators, fire suppression systems, bulletproof glass and raised floors, as well as dedicated offices and meeting rooms.
Data center upgrades include three Engineered Fluids SLICTanks used for cryptocurrency mining and blockchain devices, three-phase pumps, a 500-kilowatt dry cooler, five new HVAC units, and a touchscreen whiteboard TV for internal and virtual meetings.
Co-owner James Glover said ideal buyers for the property would be people involved in data center or bitcoin mining operations looking for more affordable space.
Glover is co-founder of Mountain Top Contractors, a Dallas-based faith-based construction company committed to rebuilding that owns the land, which it purchased in 2021.
Glover said buying the facilities is cheaper than building a new one from scratch, and the plan is popular in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, the second-largest data center market in the US after Northern Virginia.
“The facility is on the grid, has no unnecessary communication lines and all the normal features of a traditional data center, but it has a smaller footprint,” he said.
The facility was originally owned and built for AT&T in the 1990s. It was one of two fake homes built along Coit Road to house the company’s telephone equipment. news’ archive.
One of the buildings was once a cinderblock structure surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire, but as AT&T expanded and outgrew the lot, neighbors urged the company to make the new structure blend in with the surrounding single-family homes.
The concept is so unusual that the popular Zillow Gone Wild account featured the home in a post about X earlier this week. news Producers of the show said they plan to interview him on Monday.
Before you ask, there is only one bathroom in this home.
“I call it the Rolls Royce of data centers built on a Cadillac budget,” Glover says.
