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DataBank Announces New 480 MW Data Center Campus in North Texas, Featuring Eight Two-Story Data Centers » Dallas Innovates

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DataBank Announces New 480 MW Data Center Campus in North Texas, Featuring Eight Two-Story Data Centers » Dallas Innovates

DataBank Announces New 480 MW Data Center Campus in North Texas, Featuring Eight Two-Story Data Centers » Dallas Innovates

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A 480 MW data center campus on 292 acres in Red Oak has been announced by Dallas-based DataBank, a provider of leading-edge colocation, interconnection and managed services.

The company said the campus significantly increases its capacity and ability to meet the growing demand for data center space and power, fueled by AI applications.

“We are pleased to announce this significant investment in the Dallas area, which we view as 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. “Combined with our campus expansions in Atlanta and Virginia, we believe these three sites represent ideal locations for our enterprise, big tech, AI and hyperscale public cloud customers and position DataBank for significant future growth.”

According to DataBank, the south Dallas site will be home to the new “Red Oak Campus,” which will accommodate up to eight two-story data centers with a gross area of ​​425,000 square feet, each totaling up to 3.4 million square feet. The company said the site’s Phase 1 design will include four buildings and a 400 MW Oncor substation capable of providing up to 240 MW of critical IT power, with the ability to increase that capacity in Phase 2 for a total of 480 MW across the eight buildings.

Construction of the site is already underway, with the first phase expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2026.

DataBank said 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 and six other data centers in the metro area.

This is DataBank’s third new campus announcement in the last 12 months and follows the 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. Once fully developed, the three acquisitions will add more than 450 acres, 5.8 million square feet of gross data center space and 792 MW of power to DataBank’s portfolio, more than doubling its pre-acquisition footprint of 2.7 million square feet and 375 MW of power and positioning it to capitalize on AI-driven colocation demand for years to come.

The company said the new facilities will leverage DataBank’s award-winning Universal Data Hall Design (UDHD), which will ensure capacity can be rapidly deployed to meet the diverse sustainability and performance requirements of all customers, including enterprises, hyperscale cloud providers and emerging AI applications that require the highest possible power and cooling density.

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