@freemo I had the location, armed security, potential customers and an open minded attitude. Employees would have been Mathematicians who specialized in the computational side of Mathematics. I worked with them pen testing or hacking or in malware analysis previously. There were a few sub levels of operations including outsourced computational workloads, information analysis and more specialized tasks. Filtered power, noise isolation from the rest of the business and waste heat securely dissipated. So yes we were prepared for "Data Analysis" and to this day I haven't seen any services that could rival it.
It's not difficult to make money. The only difficulty is making money legally and morally.
If you'd like to read more about it, I could reveal more. Maybe part of the plan could prove lucrative enough and live on. The reason why the business failed is because it failed to launch. I couldn't get the minimal hardware which consisted of approximately 1200ish threads of native x86-64.