DataBank Begins Building in Popular Texas, Virginia Data Center Areas

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Data center operator DataBank Limited (Dallas, Texas) is on a bit of building spree, having recently broken ground on a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, and announcing the recent start of construction of another in Red Oak, Texas, in the Dallas metroplex. Both locations are the hub of a great deal of activity from the data center sector.

DataBank's most recent construction start comes in Red Oak in Ellis County, Texas, where the company has launched construction of the first of two phases, each of which will entail constructing four two-story buildings, each spanning 425,000 square feet. The first four buildings will be accompanied by a 240-megawatt (MW) substation from power supplier Oncor (Dallas). DataBank says Phase I construction is on track to be completed in the second quarter of 2026. The second phase would see the facility expanded to up to double the power and number of buildings.

A July announcement stated that construction had begun on another DataBank data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The facility in Ashburn is going up the site of a former Gold's Gym, where a 70,000-square-foot building featuring 20 MW of power will be used for colocation operations. Construction is expected to last about a year, putting the facility on track for completion next summer. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can learn more by viewing the reports on the Red Oak and Loudoun County projects.

The areas where DataBank is developing these new data centers are both quite prominent on the data center map. In Red Oak, both Google (Mountain View, California) and Compass Datacenters (Dallas) have campuses there. Google is on the tail end of Phase I construction of Red Oak data center, with subsequent construction to follow. The site eventually is expected to encompass 1 million square feet in building area and feature 70 MW of power.

But Google isn't done with Ellis County, home to Red Oak. In nearby Midlothian, about 20 miles west, Google is underway with construction of two data buildings at an existing campus. The first of these, Phase III, includes a 288,600-square-foot data hall and is expected to be completed early next year. The other building is part of Phase IV construction and will be 170,600 square feet. This building is expected to be completed next summer. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the reports on Google's Red Oak and Midlothian projects.

Compass Datacenters also is expanding its Red Oak campus, with construction of a 251,000-square-foot building featuring 52 MW of power underway. General contractor Brasfield & Gorrie (Birmingham, Alabama) is expected to wrap up this fourth-phase construction in about a year's time. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.

DataBank's newest Virginia facility is being built in what is known as "Data Center Alley" in northern Virginia. Industrial Info is tracking more than 95 active data center projects in the county, representing nearly $27 billion in investment. Not all of these will be built as planned, but a list of active projects includes 16 that are currently under construction, valued at a combined $5.9 billion. Responsible for a sizable portion of this investment is Vantage Data Centers (Denver, Colorado), which is building a grassroot facility in Ashburn, just down the road from the DataBank construction. Vantage ultimately envisions a four-building campus with more than 2 million square feet of space but for now is underway with Phase I, which will provide a three-story, 385,400-square-foot building that is expected to be completed in the first half of next year. Subscribers can click here to learn more about the project.

Other big names in data centers with projects underway in Loudoun County include Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) (Redmond, Washington), CloudHQ (San Francisco, California) and many others. Subscribers can click here to view the 16 data center projects under construction in the county.

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