Dallas Empire Central Data Center — Dallas, TX · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
4 MW	Critical IT Load	Operating	Exact Asset	2026-07-27
Critical IT load reported for the exact DFW4 facility.

ISO / RTO: ERCOT
Redundancy: N+1 power design and N+1 cooling design
Power sources: Utility/grid electricity · 100% renewable energy source (as reported by DataBank)

Facility and development

Construction: DFW4 is an operating DataBank colocation facility at 1100 Empire Central Place in Dallas, Texas. The official facility description identifies N+1 power and cooling, 35,900 IT square feet, and 4 MW of critical IT load; no construction dates or expansion phases are provided in the cited material.
Facility class: Colocation · Cloud · Telecom Edge
Workloads: colocation · cloud services · HPC-compatible compute
Rack density (kW): 25
Availability tier: N+1 power and N+1 cooling; a formal Tier I/II/III/IV classification is not disclosed.
Cooling systems: N+1 cooling design. · Three 300-ton DX cooling units are reported for DFW4 by a third-party facility listing.
Fiber and connectivity: Carrier-neutral interconnection hub with onsite carrier access, managed internet connectivity, national data-center interconnect platforms, and in-metro DataBank Cloud and DataBank Metal connectivity.
Operating context: Operating DataBank DFW4 facility providing colocation, cloud, managed connectivity, remote/smart-hands services, and HPC-compatible infrastructure. The site has N+1 power and cooling designs and a 100% uptime SLA.
Environmental commitments: DataBank lists the DFW4 facility's energy source as 100% renewable.
Tax abatements: Dallas NEZ No. 9 program: real-property tax abatement of up to 90% for 10 years, subject to project eligibility and case-by-case approval; no executed site-specific award was identified. · Dallas NEZ No. 9 program: business-personal-property tax abatement of up to 50% for 5 years, subject to project eligibility and case-by-case approval; no executed site-specific award was identified.
Permits and dockets: COM-PLM-25-001735 — Dallas commercial plumbing permit for 1100 Empire Central Place, Dallas, TX 75247; filed September 11, 2025; DataBank listed as operator/applicant; Jeff Harris named in the address/filing record; contractor/GC not identified; status listed as about to expire.
Transactions: A January 8, 2016 trade-news report describes a Zayo-related acquisition involving the 1100 Empire Central Place data-center property and states an approximately $101.8 million purchase price; the available record does not establish the allocation of that price to land, building, or the exact DFW4 facility, nor does it identify DataBank as a transaction party.
Public hearings: No public hearing specifically identifying DataBank DFW4, Dallas Empire Central Data Center, or 1100 Empire Central Place was identified. A Dallas zoning hearing mentioning Empire Central Drive concerned a different, non-address-specific property description.
Community benefits: No exact-site community-benefit program, local-benefit agreement, charitable commitment, or community employment commitment was identified for DataBank DFW4 at 1100 Empire Central Place.
Petitions: No petition specifically naming DataBank DFW4, Dallas Empire Central Data Center, or 1100 Empire Central Place was identified. The reviewed Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District petition concerned hotel properties instead.
Opposition or litigation: Databank Properties LLC (1100 Empire Central) filed a tax-appraisal case against Dallas Central Appraisal District on September 13, 2023. The available evidence does not provide the disposition. · A separate court-index record lists ZCO LLC (1100 Empire Central) versus Dallas County Central Appraisal District among lawsuits filed on September 9, 2022. The evidence does not establish that ZCO LLC is the same legal entity as DataBank or provide the case disposition. · No evidence was identified of community opposition, environmental litigation, land-use litigation, or a petition challenge directed at the DFW4 facility.

Identity and campus: Dallas Empire Central Data Center
Also reported as DFW4.
Regulatory record: The City of Dallas approved Neighborhood Empowerment Zone No. 9 and its pilot economic-development program on May 8, 2019. The associated city briefing identifies the 1100 Empire Central Place area in the proposed zone materials and describes case-by-case incentive eligibility. A Dallas commercial plumbing permit for the exact address was filed on September 11, 2025, under DataBank as operator/applicant, with permit number COM-PLM-25-001735; the record describes it as a commercial plumbing permit and indicates it was about to expire.
Availability tier: N+1 power and N+1 cooling; a formal Tier I/II/III/IV classification is not disclosed.

Dallas Empire Central Data Center (DFW4) — The official facility page identifies the Dallas Empire Central Data Center as DFW4 at 1100 Empire Central Place in Dallas and describes the facility's colocation and interconnection services. It is an official facility page rather than independent local or trade news.

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