  The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation
of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good
energy resolution - comparable to semiconductor detectors - and a wide choice
of target materials, making low temperature calorimetric detectors ideal for a
variety of particle physics applications. Rare event searches have continued to
require ever greater exposures, which has driven them to ever larger cryogenic
detectors, with the CUORE experiment being the first to reach a tonne-scale,
mK-cooled, experimental mass. CUORE, designed to search for neutrinoless double
beta decay, has been operational since 2017 at a temperature of about 10 mK.
This result has been attained by the use of an unprecedentedly large cryogenic
infrastructure called the CUORE cryostat: conceived, designed and commissioned
for this purpose. In this article the main characteristics and features of the
cryogenic facility developed for the CUORE experiment are highlighted. A brief
introduction of the evolution of the field and of the past cryogenic facilities
are given. The motivation behind the design and development of the CUORE
cryogenic facility is detailed as are the steps taken toward realization,
commissioning, and operation of the CUORE cryostat. The major challenges
overcome by the collaboration and the solutions implemented throughout the
building of the cryogenic facility will be discussed along with the potential
improvements for future facilities. The success of CUORE has opened the door to
a new generation of large-scale cryogenic facilities in numerous fields of
science. Broader implications of the incredible feat achieved by the CUORE
collaboration on the future cryogenic facilities in various fields ranging from
neutrino and dark matter experiments to quantum computing will be examined.
