An idle data center the market had passed by
Sprint had left the facility behind fully intact, and the owner spent years marketing it as a turnkey, move-in-ready data center. A short-lived cryptocurrency-mining tenant defaulted on payments, and with carrying costs climbing and no data-center buyer in sight, the investor decided to sell off the equipment to raise cash and reset the building — so it could be re-marketed as a corporate campus.
Clearing it was anything but simple. The building was still live, with four battery rooms, 2 MW generators and paralleling gear, fuel tanks holding diesel, and a raised floor packed with CRAC units and air handlers. All of it had to come out without cutting power to the building — and the space had to be left clean, not gutted.
Bought the assets, cleared the building, restored the space
Quantum contracted with the investor to decommission and purchase the equipment — so the entire electrical, mechanical, rigging and demolition scope was delivered at no charge to the owner, offset by the value of the recovered assets. Quantum’s own electricians de-energized each system in place while keeping the building’s power on, then crews removed the generators, chillers, UPS systems, CRAC units, PDUs and air handlers.
Removal was only half the job. Quantum rewired the building fire alarm, troubleshot the data-center lighting, took out walls, racking and piping, patched and repainted, closed the raised-floor openings left behind, and replaced roughly 700 delaminating floor tiles — handing back a clean, show-ready space.
Across four battery rooms, Quantum safely removed and recovered roughly 240,000 pounds of lead-acid batteries — alongside three 2 MW Caterpillar generators, four 400-ton chillers, eight Liebert UPS systems and twenty CRAC units — turning stranded infrastructure into recovered value.
A full decommission, handled end to end
From de-energizing live systems to repainting the walls, Quantum carried the entire scope in-house — removal, recovery, and restoration.
Stranded assets turned into a fresh start
The investor came away able to raise cash from the equipment and hand the market a clean, ready-to-show building.
Zero cost to the owner
The full electrical, mechanical, rigging and demolition scope was delivered at no charge, offset by the value of the assets Quantum purchased.
Power never interrupted
Quantum’s electricians de-energized each system in place, so the rest of the building kept running throughout the decommission.
Restored and resale-ready
Walls patched, raised floor closed and retiled, lighting and alarms squared away — the space was handed back clean and ready to re-market.
Inside the Sprint Norcross decommission
A look at the crews, rigging, and equipment that cleared the building.
Decommissioning a data center?
Tell us what’s on the floor. We’ll show you the recovery value against the removal cost — and in many cases, like this one, clear it at little or no cost to you.