CoStar News covered DataBank’s plans to construct its first three-story data center, a $400 million facility in Plano, Texas, representing the company’s innovative approach to address land constraints in high-demand markets. The project will deliver 40 megawatts of power to the Dallas-Fort Worth region and is part of 15 new data center developments underway.
Senior Vice President Jerry Blair explained that DataBank chose vertical construction due to limited available land at the 6-acre site adjacent to an existing facility at 8375 Dominion Parkway. The company worked with power provider Oncor to add additional capacity to the location, about 25 miles north of downtown Dallas.
“We didn’t have the land to go wide, so we went tall. It will have the mechanical and electrical equipment on the bottom floor with two floors of data center above it.”
— Jerry Blair, Senior Vice President at DataBank
The facility has attracted interest from enterprise users, hyperscale clients, and artificial intelligence companies, with potential occupiers requesting between 3 to 9 megawatts of power capacity. Construction is scheduled to begin and complete in 2025, with Dallas-based Corgan serving as project architect.
DataBank’s vertical expansion strategy addresses nationwide supply constraints as the company operates more than 65 full data centers across the United States during record demand periods.
Read CoStar’s complete coverage here.
Share Article
DataBank's Plano data center campus is situated within 20-30 minutes of most other DataBank Dallas colocation facilities. Our 16-acre campus is home to our flagship DFW3 data center and DFW8, a 126,000 square foot expansion. It is powered by dual feeds from an off-site Oncor substation totaling 40MW of power and provides valuable metro connectivity to our other Dallas data centers.
Drone preview of DataBank’s DFW8 data center under construction in Plano, TX. Explore specs, timeline, and how this HPC-ready facility supports AI, liquid cooling, and FedRAMP Cloud.
DataBank announced today the expansion of its flagship Dallas data center (DFW3) to help support the southwest region’s growing technology ecosystem. The new development will add 22,000 square feet of raised floor space and 3MW of Critical Power, inclusive of a dedicated catcher reserve block.
Discover the DataBank Difference today:
Hybrid infrastructure solutions with boundless edge reach and a human touch.
Tell us about your infrastructure requirements and how to reach you, and one of team members will be in touch shortly.
"*" indicates required fields
Let us know which data center you'd like to visit and how to reach you, and one of team members will be in touch shortly.
"*" indicates required fields
"*" indicates required fields
