Compass Red Oak Campus
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Compass Datacenters owns and operates the Compass Red Oak Campus on 225 acres in Red Oak, Texas, with 16 planned buildings totaling 2.24 million gross square feet. Five facilities came online between 2024 and 2025, delivering 180 MW of energized capacity, while the full campus is reported to target 360 MW at build-out. Buildings under construction or in development include DFW III-III Buildings 6 and 7, scheduled for completion in 2026 and 2027 respectively.
Red Oak I / DFW III-I was the first facility in the planned 16-building development. The city described it as a 6 MW, one-story data center. TDLR records separately document the 980,849-square-foot DFW III-I facility and a 40,150-square-foot Thunderball 6000 data-center building at the Houston School Road site.
DFW III-II Building 1, also called Roadrunner Building 1, was registered as a new 250,000-square-foot data-center building at 300 Houston School Road. Its TDLR record lists a scheduled construction completion of December 1, 2022 and a closed project status.
DFW III-II Building 2, Roadrunner Building 2, is a new 251,815-square-foot data center at 481 Austin Boulevard. The TDLR record lists construction from December 31, 2021 through August 31, 2024 and identifies the project as inspection complete.
DFW III-II Building 3 at 501 Austin Boulevard is a new 251,815-square-foot data-center building. Its TDLR record lists a November 30, 2022 start date, February 28, 2025 completion date, and inspection-complete status.
DFW III-II Building 4 at 541 Austin Boulevard is documented as a tenant fit-out of approximately 195,000 square feet of administrative and data-hall spaces. The TDLR record lists a December 13, 2024 start date and November 26, 2025 completion date. This is fit-out area, not an independently reported gross shell area.
DFW III-III Building 6 at 500 Austin Boulevard is a new 251,815-square-foot data center. The TDLR record lists a construction start of April 2, 2024 and scheduled completion of December 22, 2026.
DFW III-III Building 7 at 540 Austin Boulevard is a new 251,815-square-foot data center. The TDLR record lists a June 20, 2024 construction start and scheduled completion of June 4, 2027.
Compass’s current market page describes the Red Oak development as a 360 MW campus nearing completion. This campus-level figure is not allocated to individual buildings because the evidence does not provide a building-by-building MW breakdown.
| Capacity | Basis | Status | Scope | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 MW | Energized Power | Operating | Campus | 2025 |
| Reported total power capacity of five existing Red Oak facilities that came online between 2024 and 2025; treated as operating/energized campus capacity, not critical IT load. | ||||
| 350 MW | Leasable IT Load | Target | Campus | 2020 |
| Compass reported that the Red Oak campus would deliver more than 350 MW of IT load; 350 MW is recorded as the stated lower-bound figure, not an exact capacity. | ||||
| 360 MW | Campus Gross Power | Target | Campus | 2025 |
| Reported expected total capacity at full build-out across the planned campus; this is gross campus capacity and is not combined with the 180 MW operating figure. | ||||
Also reported as Compass Red Oak, Compass Red Oak Data Center, Compass Datacenters Red Oak, 300 Houston School Road data center.
Compass Datacenters’ Red Oak campus at 300 Houston School Road is an expanding, privately funded campus. Ellis County and the City of Red Oak granted a Phase 2 tax abatement, while Red Oak pursued PUC Docket No. 56845 to amend its water-system certificate of convenience and necessity. Compass submitted municipal water-service applications for the campus; the record also identifies transmission-right-of-way and substation work supporting the campus. TDLR records document completed or inspected private data-center construction phases at 300 Houston School Road and nearby Austin Boulevard addresses.
Project Details — The TDLR project record identifies Compass Datacenters DFW III-I at 300 Houston School Road, Red Oak, Ellis County, with a 2019-2020 construction period.
County Partners with Compass Datacenters for Phase 2 Construction of Red Oak Campus — The county announced a tax-abatement partnership with the City of Red Oak and Compass for Phase 2 construction of the Red Oak campus and described expected economic-development benefits.
Compass Datacenters looks to calm data center controversy by funding $15m animal shelter in Ellis County, Texas — The trade article identifies the existing campus at 300 Houston School Road, reports expansion history, and distinguishes it from Compass’s separate 830-acre proposal.
New Partnership Creates Data Center Career Pathway — Compass reported donating $12.6 million to build a workforce-training facility at 300 Houston School Road for the MEI Data Center Pathway Program with Texas State Technical College.
Schneider Electric Opens Data Center Integration Facility in Red Oak, TX — Schneider Electric reported opening a 105,000-square-foot integration facility adjacent to the Compass Red Oak campus and creating more than 200 jobs.
Compass Datacenters looks to expand Red Oak campus — The article reports Compass’s Red Oak campus expansion, identifies buildings at Austin Boulevard, and separately states that the broader campus is located at 300 Houston School Road.
Red Oak embraced data centers. Now neighbors are pushing back — The local report covers Red Oak’s broader data-center buildout, documents the exact-campus TSTC training-facility donation, and separately reports resident opposition to the 830-acre proposal.