PowerCampus Dallas will characteristic as a lot as 300 MW of energy. Picture courtesy of Skybox Information Facilities
Skybox Datacenters has begun the event of a brand new knowledge heart campus, PowerCampus Dallas, in partnership with developer Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Administration.
The 115-acre campus, simply south of downtown Dallas, will characteristic as a lot as 300 MW of energy supported by a personal on-site substation and as much as 1 million sq. ft of information heart area. N, N + 1 and 2N configurations might be obtainable.
Facilities will embrace EV charging stations, bike racks, bathe amenities, customizable workplace area and a customer heart.
PowerCampus is a product line from Skybox for large-scale knowledge heart belongings tailor-made to hyperscale shoppers throughout main and rising U.S. markets.
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Skybox highlights the Dallas market’s “wonderful proximity to cloud suppliers and exchanges in addition to substantial community availability to main metros,” together with its low power prices, entry to renewable energy, and native and state tax incentives. As well as, Texas provides a state gross sales tax exemption on electrical energy or tools for qualifying knowledge facilities.
Larger in Texas
Ranked as one of many nation’s eight major knowledge heart markets, metro Dallas is seeing steadily excessive demand, particularly hyperscale and enterprise demand, with 75 MW of leases and 68 MW of web absorption within the first half, based on an Americas Information Heart Replace launched in October by Cushman & Wakefield. Total emptiness is simply 3.4 p.c, and a hefty 140 MW is below building, within the context of 650 MW now in operation.
In March 2022, Skybox introduced that in a partnership with Prologis, it will construct a $500 million–plus knowledge heart on a 25-acre web site in Austin’s Silicon Hills submarket. Completion of the 30 MW, 141,000-square-foot first section was scheduled for December of final 12 months.