A 480MW data center campus on 292 acres of land in Red Oak has been announced by Dallas-based DataBank, a provider of enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services.
The company said the campus dramatically expands its capacity and ability to meet the growing demand for data center space and power being driven by AI applications.
“We’re excited to announce this significant investment in the Dallas area, which we consider one of the most attractive, long-term, and permanent data center markets in the United States,” DataBank CEO Raul K. Martynek said in a statement. “In combination with our Atlanta and Virginia campus expansions, we believe these three sites represent ideal locations for our enterprise, large technology, AI, and hyperscale public cloud customers and position DataBank for significant future growth.”
The land will become home to the new “Red Oak Campus” accommodating up to eight, two-story data centers of 425,000 gross square feet, each totaling as much as 3.4 million square feet, according to DataBank. The company said the Phase 1 design of the site will feature four buildings and a 400MW substation from Oncor that can deliver up to 240MW of critical IT power with the ability to increase this in Phase 2 for a total of 480MW across all eight buildings.
Construction at the site is already underway, with the first phase expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2026.
DataBank said that Red Oak has become a major submarket in Dallas, attracting the world’s largest cloud and technology providers. DataBank’s campus adds to its already significant presence in the market which includes its headquarters location and six other data centers in the metro area.
This is DataBank’s third new campus announcement in the past 12 months and follows its acquisition of a 95-acre, 120-MW campus in the Atlanta market in October 2023 and an 85-acre, 192-MW campus in Northern Virginia in November 2023. When fully developed, the three acquisitions will add more than 450 acres, 5.8 million square feet of gross data center space, and 792MW of power to DataBank’s portfolio, more than doubling its 2.7 million square feet and 375MW of power before the acquisitions and positioning it to capitalize on A.I.-generated colocation demand for years ahead.
The company said the new facilities will leverage DataBank’s award-winning Universal Data Hall Design (UDHD), which will ensure capacity can be quickly deployed to meet the wide-ranging sustainability and performance requirements of all customers, including enterprises, hyperscale cloud providers, and emerging A.I. applications that need the highest possible power and cooling density.
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