Data Center Decommissioning at Sprint Norcross Data Center

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Data Center Decommissioning at Sprint Norcross
Data Center
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Case Studies
Sprint Norcross Data Center
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Quantum made an offer to Sprint to purchase the
assets from their data center at 5295 Brook
Hollow Parkway so they could return their leased
space in its original condition to the building
owner.  After continued negotiations, Sprint made
arrangements with the owner to leave the data
center intact and vacate the property.  For the
next few years the building was marketed as a
fully equipped data center property, with a brief
lease to a Bit Mining company who, unfortunately,
was not able to make their lease payments. 
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As the property expenses continued to mount and
the building was not selling as a data center,
the private investor who had purchased it from
Sprint  contracted with Quantum to decommission
and purchase the assets. The idea was to raise
much needed cash and give the property a cosmetic
boost.  The investor would then re-market the
property as an attractive Corporate Campus. 
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• The old Sprint data center assets included
• (3) Caterpillar 2mW generators with paralleling
  gear
• (2) 10,000 gallon diesel fuel tanks with 6,000
  gallons of diesel fuel
• (4) Outdoor 400 ton Chillers
• (8) Liebert UPS Systems
• (20) Chilled water CRAC units
• (12) RPPs, (12) PDUs, (12) Air Handlers with
  VFD controllers

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• (4) Battery rooms with 240,000 lbs of Lead Acid
  batteries and a fairly large quantity of both
  ferrous and non-ferrous scrap
• The idea of this project was to create as much
  return for the owner as possible through the sale
  of the assets  provide electrical, mechanical,
  rigging and demolition services at no charge and
  make the property presentable for sale. Quantum
  used their own electricians to de-energize the
  systems without disabling building power.  This
  required re-wiring the building fire alarm, and
  trouble shooting lighting problems in the data
  center.  Quantum removed walls, racking and
  piping.  The removal of air handlers left (12) 30
  square foot holes in the raised floor system
  which Quantum reconstituted by providing
  additional floor structure and filling in with
  raised floor panels.  The work included patching
  walls and repainting. Quantum also removed around
  700 badly de-laminating floor tiles and replaced
  them with comparable tiles to eliminate tripping
  hazards. In the end, the private investor/owner
  was extremely satisfied, and felt Quantum had
  greatly assisted in creating a path forward
  towards selling the property.
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