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.
