Case Studies
Sprint Norcross Data Center – GA
KEY FACTS
Location: GA
Type: Data Center Decommissioning
Scope: Quantum handled the disassembly and removal of all Data Center equipment
Duration: 4 weeks
Client: Private
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. 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. 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) RPP’s, (12) PDU’s, (12) Air Handlers with VFD controllers
(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.
