A number of data center properties in the US are up for sale.

Around Detroit, Michigan, a data center occupied by a HP spin-off is seeking a new landlord, a vacant office and data center leased to Ford is available, and an empty former Xerox facility is up for sale.

In Kentucky, a former IBM facility is also available, while in North Carolina, a former satellite tracking facility is up for sale.

Former HP data center up for sale in Michigan

Outside Detroit, a data center occupied by an HP spin-off is up for sale.

Via LoopNet and Crexi, AMC Real Estate Investment Services is listing 1872 Enterprise Drive in Rochester Hills, Oakland County, as up for sale. The listing price is $7.3 million.

Built in 1998 and set on 4.1 acres, the single-story facility totals 55,185 sq ft (5,127 sqm).

The facility is leased on an NNN basis to healthcare technology services firm Gainwell Technologies, a successor to DXC/HP Enterprise Services.

The site has three years remaining on the initial term, which started in 2022, with two five-year extension options. The property generates annual rent totaling $439,000.

Private equity company Veritas Capital acquired DXC’s health and human services business for $5bn in 2020, renaming the acquired unit Gainwell. DXC itself was a spin-out of HPE’s services arm, formed in 2017.

The site has been occupied by HP and its successors for some 15 years. HP Enterprise previously leased the facility in 2011 on a seven-year deal.

Former IBM data center up for sale in Kentucky

Haymaker Commercial Real Estate is listing 745 New Circle Road in Lexington as up for sale.

Built in 1977, the 29.5-acre site comprises two buildings (one four-story and one two-story) totaling 345,000 sq ft (32,052 sqm).

Building 200 is partially leased to multiple credit-grade tenants, while Building 202 contains 81,680 square feet (7,588 sqm) of former IBM data center space with Liebert units, water-cooling systems, raised flooring, security checkpoints, and five Caterpillar generators already in place.

“Located directly across from Lexmark’s global headquarters, 745 W. New Circle Road offers a rare opportunity for data center developers, operators, and power-intensive users to acquire a large-scale site with existing infrastructure, robust utility access, and strong redevelopment potential,” the listing said.

Sited close to a Kentucky Utilities substation, the listing suggests the site can be expanded to 75MW within three years, and possibly more in the future.

Lexmark was spun out of IBM in 1991. The HQ building opposite 745 was built in 1954 to house IBM’s typewriter manufacturing operations. Xerox acquired Lexmark last year for $1.5 billion.

Former Xerox site in Michigan up for sale

Outside Detroit, Michigan, a former office and data center is up for sale.

Signature Associates is listing 5225 Auto Club Drive in Dearborn, Wayne County, as up for sale. The listing price is $3.1 million.

Built around 1982 and sitting on just under five acres, the two-story facility totals 65,735 sq ft (6,107 sqm).

The property is billed as an office/tech building in a “perfect location,” with heavy power as a former data center. The listing notes the facility is “priced well below replacement cost.”

Online listings suggest the site was previously occupied by Atos, though it has long been occupied by technology firms going back several decades.

Data center decommissioning firm Quantum Technology suggests the site was originally built for local gas provider MichCon.

During the 1990s, the site was home to Genix Group, the IT division of the utility firm and MichCon successor MCN Corp (now DTE Energy). Genix was formed in 1983 and sold in 1996 to Affiliated Computer Services.

Affiliated was acquired by Xerox in 2010, with Atos buying Xerox’s IT outsourcing business in 2014.

Xerox Business Services/Atos operated out of the site around 2018, when it was described as a data recovery facility with a 1MW generator. Atos renewed the lease around 2018, according to REJournals. It's unclear when the company exited the site.

Ford office and data center up for sale in Detroit

Again, around Detroit, an office campus and data center is up for sale in Michigan.

Via LoopNet, Dirt Realty is listing 21001 Van Born Road in Wayne County’s Taylor as up for sale. Dominion Real Estate Advisors is also listing the property as a potential sublease from the current tenant, Ford Motors, or to buy the whole campus for $4.95 million.

The 18-acre, 415,605 sq ft (38,611 sqm) campus was built in 1966 and comprises four units. The property is being billed as a potential corporate headquarters, tech, lab, or medical campus.

Unit C within the site is described as a 25,000 sq ft (2,323 sqm) former data center. The listing price for that part with Dirt Realty is $849,000.

“This class A lower-level space was a data center for a Fortune 500 company. Has power, back up, and raised floors,” the listing said. “Special fire suppression and other key features. Locker room, food service, and other key tech center features. Fresh paint, LED lighting, and carpet.”

The site was previously the HQ for US manufacturing company Masco Corporation, before being taken over by Ford Motors.

Masco exited the site around 2015. Dominion says the site is fully leased to Ford until at least June 2027, but has vacated much of the site.

“Ford Motor Company initially signed a ten-year lease, with two five-year options for the purpose of housing their [sic] large-scale IT services operation for which Ford fully upgraded and modernized the buildings' IT and telecommunications infrastructure at that time,” Dominion said. “Ford has since vacated the building to backfill recent new developments within its downtown Detroit and nearby Dearborn world headquarters.”

Dominion said interested parties can sublease the vacant site at “well below market rates,” recast the lease with the landlord directly, or purchase the site with or without the Ford lease in place.

The site also may be purchased together with the adjacent property, 21111 Van Born Road, a 149,849 sq ft (13,921 sqm) warehouse building on 12.67 acres, also 100 percent leased to Ford Motor Company.

North Carolina satellite site seeks new owner

In North Carolina, a former NASA and NSA satellite site is up for sale.

The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), at 1 Pari Drive in Rosman, Transylvania County, is up for sale. Listed by NAI Piedmont Triad on LoopNet, the site is available for $30 million.

The 192-acre campus was originally developed by NASA in the 1960s and was known as the Rosman Tracking Station. It was also used by the National Security Agency during the 1980s and was renamed the Rosman Research Station. The site was closed by the NSA in 1995 and transferred to the United States Forest Service. PARI was established in September 1998 and acquired the site.

The site spans more than 30 buildings and some 94,350 sq ft (8,765 sqm). The campus includes a planetarium, dish antennas, data centers, laboratories, and radio arrays, as well as a library, exhibits, dorms/staff housing, and dining facilities.

The site features more than 25 optical telescopes, two NASA-built dishes, two radio telescopes, Solar and Jupiter radio arrays, and an Eight-Meter Transient Array.

“All of us are excited about it just because we’ve never seen anything like it and probably never will,” Robbie Perkins, market president at NAI Piedmont Triad, told WLOS.

On its website, PARI said the Department of Defense originally constructed the buildings that house both of PARI’s data centers as sensitive compartmentalized information facilities for communications, computing, database storage, and laboratory functions.

The Duke Energy-powered site has a current capacity of 2MW, which can be expanded to 45MW.

The campus features four on-site generators, and a second substation can be added by Duke Energy.

The site has three fiber entry points, with Internet provided by ERC Broadband.

Under the current owner, a nonprofit organization, PARI is utilized for STEM education, scientific research, data archiving, and facility rentals, events, and private programs.

The listing notes the potential for AI/quantum data center development, ground station operations, and radio/optical telescope usage.

“This scientific landmark is ready for next-gen use, from AI research and data archiving to aerospace communications, STEM education, and even quantum computing.”