# Alcon Data Center

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Alcon Vision owns and operates the Alcon Data Center at its Fort Worth campus (6549 South Freeway), a 37,000-square-foot enterprise facility that opened September 29, 2015. The original $53 million build provided 10,000 square feet of IT space with expansion to 35,000 square feet; a 2021 interior alteration added partitions and support spaces. A 100 kW onsite solar PV system serves administrative areas.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 6549 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX
- Owner: Alcon Vision (exact asset) — https://www.alcon.com/
- Operator: Alcon Vision (exact asset) — https://www.alcon.com/
- Developer: Alcon Vision (exact asset) — https://www.alcon.com/
- Tenant: Novartis (exact asset) — https://www.novartis.com/

## Power and grid context

- Onsite generation: 0.1 MW · reported · exact asset · as of 2015-09-30 — Solar PV panel system reported to provide 100 kW for administrative areas; this is onsite-generation capacity and is not a utility-service, interconnection, or IT-load figure.
- ISO/RTO: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
- Balancing authority: ERCOT

## Development

- Site status: Operating; the global data center opened September 29, 2015. The separate 2021 interior alteration project is closed.
- Gross floor area: 37,000 square feet
- Construction: Novartis developed and opened a 37,000-square-foot global data center at Alcon’s Fort Worth campus on September 29, 2015. Construction began July 1, 2014; the facility cost $53 million and initially included 10,000 square feet of IT space, expandable to 35,000 square feet. A separate 2021 TDLR-registered interior alteration subdivided the existing technical floor and adjoining offices across 1,200 square feet; that project was scheduled for completion on December 31, 2021 and is recorded as closed.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: enterprise
- Workloads: Enterprise data hosting and information-technology workloads for Novartis across the Americas
- Announced tenants: Novartis
- Operating context: Operating enterprise data center for Novartis, located at Alcon’s Fort Worth headquarters. It opened in 2015 as Novartis’s fourth global data center and the main data-host location for the Americas. The facility was reported at 37,000 sq. ft., with 10,000 sq. ft. of initial IT space expandable to 35,000 sq. ft.; a 2021 alteration subdivided the existing technical floor and adjoining office space.

## Sources

- [Novartis Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/novartis)
- [Oncor Electric: Rates and Coverage Area](https://findenergy.com/providers/oncor-electric/)
- [Health Notes: Novartis unveils global data center in Fort Worth - The Business Press](https://fortworthbusiness.com/health-care/health-notes-novartis-unveils-global-data-center-in-fort-worth/) — The Business Press · 2015-10-02
- [Alcon set for $34.7M data center project for Novartis - The Business Press](https://fortworthbusiness.com/real-estate/alcon-set-for-34-7m-data-center-project-for-novartis/) — The Business Press · 2014-07-10
- [CITY COUNCIL MEETING](https://fortworthgov.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1863&meta_id=223680)
- [https://publicdocuments.fortworthtexas.gov/CSODOCS/DocView.aspx?id=208146&dbid=0&repo=City-Secretary&searchid=8e505ce6-83a6-4aec-a3f2-c0e8e3ea92d8](https://publicdocuments.fortworthtexas.gov/CSODOCS/DocView.aspx?id=208146&dbid=0&repo=City-Secretary&searchid=8e505ce6-83a6-4aec-a3f2-c0e8e3ea92d8)
- [Fetched web page](https://records.tceq.texas.gov/cs/idcplg?IdcService=TCEQ_EXTERNAL_SEARCH_GET_FILE&dID=7998361&Rendition=Web)
- [Alcon: Developing Innovative Eye Care Treatments](https://www.alcon.com/)
- [Novartis Data Center - Architect Magazine](https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/novartis-data-center/)
- [Novartis AG Opens Up $53 Million Global Data Center at Alcon in Texas - BioSpace](https://www.biospace.com/novartis-ag-opens-up-53-million-global-data-center-at-alcon-in-texas) — BioSpace · 2015-09-30
- [Alcon Data Center TI - Fort Worth, TX](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/alcon-data-center-ti-e3498321)
- [Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)](https://www.ercot.com/)
- [Daily Balancing Authority Operations Report](https://www.ercot.com/mp/data-products/data-product-details?id=EIA-930-ER)
- [Health Notes: Novartis unveils global data center in Fort Worth - The Business Press](https://www.fortworthbusiness.com/health-care/health-notes-novartis-unveils-global-data-center-in-fort-worth/)
- [Fetched web page](https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/files/assets/public/ecodev/documents/annual-reports/2014-housing-ecodev-annual-report.pdf)
- [Oncor Electric](https://www.oncor.com/content/oncorwww/us/en/home.html)
- [Novartis, Alcon face gender discrimination suit](https://www.optometrytimes.com/view/novartis-alcon-face-gender-discrimination-suit)
- [Project Details](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Print/TABS2021018723)

## Data quality

- The exact regulated asset is the Alcon Data Center TI alteration at 6549 South Freeway, TABS2021018723, completed in 2021; the 2014–2015 news coverage concerns the underlying global data-center facility and its Phase II campus development.
- The 2014 local article places the original facility along Alta Mesa Boulevard on the southern end of the Alcon campus off South Freeway, while the TDLR record supplies the exact 6549 South Freeway address.
- Reported investment figures vary by source and project stage: the 2014 article cites $34.7 million in planned investment, while 2015 coverage cites a $53 million completed facility. These figures are reported historical claims, not independently reconciled totals.
- No MW, water-use quantity, PUE, WUE, generator count, building count, tenant expansion, or commercial terms were inferred.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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