The windows are for show. The grass it cut, but no one is home. It’s a mini-data center.There are no bedrooms. The windows are for show. The grass is cut, but no one is home. Twelve inches of steel-reinforced concrete sit behind the brick facade.One of the city’s strangest “houses” — is not a house at all. It just looks like one, and it’s gotten the internet’s attention.is a small data center being touted as the perfect multi-use facility for anything from cloud hosting to AI services.
An ideal buyer for the property would be someone in the data center or bitcoin mining business looking for a more affordable facility, said co-owner James Grover. Grover is a co-founder of Mountain Top Contractors, a second-chance, faith-based construction company based in Dallas that owns the property. The firm purchased the property in 2021.Grover says buying the home would be cheaper than building a new facility from scratch. The prospect is a popular one in Dallas-Fort Worth. The region is America’s second-largest data center market,
“It’s on the power grid and has all of the communication lines you would never need and all of the normal bells and whistles that you find in a traditional data center just in a smaller footprint,” he said. The facility was originally owned and built for AT&T. It was one of two phony homes along Coit Road built to house the company’s phone equipment, according to The News’ archives.It was once a concrete block structure surrounded by a chain link fence and barbed wire. Once AT&T outgrew the space, neighbors requested the company blend any new building into the surrounding sea of single-family homes.that producers for its show planned to interview him Monday.