Centersquare Dallas (DA1-Allen) Data Center — Allen, TX · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
12 MW	Utility Service	Reported	Exact Asset	2024-01
Data-center utility power reported in the January 2024 DAL1 facility brochure.
8.6 MW	Utility Service	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Current Centersquare listing reports utility capacity for the Allen DFW2 facility at 900 Guardians Way.
16 MW	Backup Generation	Reported	Exact Asset	2024-01
Eight diesel generators rated at 2.0 MW each, implying 16 MW of aggregate standby-generator nameplate capacity.
14 MW	Backup Generation	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Current Centersquare listing reports generator capacity for Allen DFW2.

Utility: Denton County Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Balancing authority: ERCOT
ISO / RTO: ERCOT
Substation: No exact-site substation publicly identified
Point of interconnection: Not publicly disclosed beyond service by Denton County Electric Cooperative at the 12.47 kV utility-feeder level
Interconnection voltage (kV): 12.47
Redundancy: N+1 and 2N UPS redundancy is reported; standby power is N+1, with a single utility feeder and diesel-generator backup.
Backup generation: Diesel standby generation is documented as eight 2.0 MW generators, implying 16 MW aggregate nameplate capacity in the January 2024 brochure. The current Centersquare listing separately reports 14 MW of generator capacity; both figures are retained without reconciliation.
Onsite generation: No separate permanent onsite-generation source was publicly identified; the disclosed diesel units are characterized as standby generation.
Storage: Five underground diesel-fuel tanks storing 70,000 gallons are reported; no battery-storage system was publicly disclosed.
Power sources: Denton County Electric Cooperative utility power · Diesel standby generation
Grid flexibility: During the February 2021 Texas power emergency, Evoque operated the Allen facility on generator power for 15 hours and returned multiple megawatts to the grid.
Queue identifiers: No facility-specific queue identifier publicly identified
Dockets: No facility-specific docket or case number publicly identified

Facility and development

IT floor area (sq ft): 77,124
Gross floor area (sq ft): 115,633
Buildings: 1
Construction: The facility is a single-story, purpose-built data center constructed in 1999 and renovated in 2015. A separate 2024 renovation/alteration permit covered pavement repairs to the existing drive and fire lane, with construction scheduled from March 7, 2024 through April 12, 2024; the permit was closed. These permit dates relate to pavement repair, not commercial operation.
Facility class: Colocation · Cloud
Workloads: blended enterprise infrastructure and workloads not optimized for the cloud · cloud-connected workloads and cloud services · disaster recovery · distributed compute
Cooling systems: Five 600-ton chillers and cooling towers · On-site make-up water system · N+1 HVAC system with water-cooled chillers and CRAH/CRAC units
Cooling medium: Water
Fiber and connectivity: Carrier-neutral, cloud-enabled connectivity with low-latency Internet, Megaport cloud connectivity, copper/fiber/coaxial cross-connects, Evoque blended IP, and regional point-to-point connectivity. The current operator page also identifies 12 carrier-neutral service providers and cloud/point-to-point connectivity.
Operating context: Operating colocation facility under Centersquare, historically branded Evoque Allen/DAL1. It provides secure, connected colocation, cloud-enabled infrastructure, structured cabling, remote hands, disaster recovery, and distributed-compute services, with a stated 100% SLA on power, network, and bandwidth.
Environmental commitments: Centersquare reports that its DFW2 data center implemented a secondary-inhibitor change that increased cooling-water cycles of concentration from 3 to 5, with estimated savings of 2.7 million gallons of water per year.
Environmental impacts: The DFW2 data center is classified by Centersquare as being in a high-water-stressed region; its cooling-water efficiency project is expected to save an estimated 2.7 million gallons annually.
Utility agreements: The facility is reported to have a single utility feeder, standby-power configuration, and on-site make-up water; no named utility-provider agreement or tariff was identified for the exact site.
Permits and dockets: Evoque Data Center Pavement Repair — Allen, Texas; permitting application date February 6, 2024.
Transactions: January 2019: the exact-site timeline identifies an M&A event as AT&T DAL1, in connection with AT&T Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' formation of Evoque following its $1.1 billion acquisition of 31 AT&T data-center facilities; the evidence does not allocate a standalone purchase price to this facility. · April 2024: Evoque and Cyxtera merged/rebranded under Centersquare; the exact-site timeline identifies the event as Evoque Allen. · Late 2025: the exact-site timeline identifies a further rebranding from Centersquare to Csquare for the DFW2-A listing.
Opposition or litigation: A federal patent dispute involving Vertiv and Valtrus concerns data-center cooling technology and filings reference cooling systems operated by Evoque at its Allen Data Center. The available evidence does not establish that the 900 Guardians Way facility itself was a named defendant, that the matter arose from a local community objection, or what final relief or outcome occurred. · No site-specific local opposition group, community campaign, or litigation concerning zoning, utilities, environmental impacts, or operation of the 900 Guardians Way facility was identified.

Identity and campus: Centersquare Dallas (DA1-Allen) Data Center
Also reported as Evoque Allen, Evoque Allen DA1, DAL1, Csquare - Dallas DFW2-A Data Center, Centersquare Dallas (DFW2).
Regulatory record: The exact facility at 900 Guardians Way, Allen, Texas is an operating colocation data center historically identified as Evoque Allen/AT&T DAL1 and now identified with Centersquare/Csquare. Public evidence identifies a February 6, 2024 pavement-repair permit record for the site and reports a single utility feeder, standby power, and on-site make-up water. No exact-site tax abatement, incentive agreement, PPA, named utility contract, major regulatory docket, contractor, financier, or land/project price was identified.

Centersquare Dallas (DA1-Allen) Data Center

Centersquare Dallas (DA1-Allen) Data Center

Overview

Original data center building

Power and grid

Facility and development

Organizations

Sources

Explore related directories

Explore related directories