Data Foundry 00

Operating · Switch · 7401 East Ben White Boulevard, Austin, TX

Switch operates Data Foundry 00 (formerly Austin 1), a 40,000-square-foot colocation and HPC facility at 7401 East Ben White Boulevard in Austin that launched in July 2003. The facility includes 21,133 square feet of raised floor and supports high-performance computing and blade-server environments; it reports 400 MW dedicated substation capacity and multiple diesel backup generators ranging from 1.5 MW to 2.5 MW per unit.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operating facility
Exact-site power: 400 MW
Utility Service · Reported
Facility size: 40,000 sq ft
Facility
Opened: Jul 2003
Austin 1 / Data Foundry 00

Data Foundry 00

Operating · Switch · 7401 East Ben White Boulevard, Austin, TX

Switch operates Data Foundry 00 (formerly Austin 1), a 40,000-square-foot colocation and HPC facility at 7401 East Ben White Boulevard in Austin that launched in July 2003. The facility includes 21,133 square feet of raised floor and supports high-performance computing and blade-server environments; it reports 400 MW dedicated substation capacity and multiple diesel backup generators ranging from 1.5 MW to 2.5 MW per unit.

Website Open in grid

Overview

Status: Operating
Operating facility
Exact-site power: 400 MW
Utility Service · Reported
Facility size: 40,000 sq ft
Facility
Opened: Jul 2003
Austin 1 / Data Foundry 00

Compute profile

Colocation · AI HPC

high-performance computing (HPC) · blade-server environments

Cooling design

Glycol for the CRAC systems; the official facility page also describes chilled-water CRAHs and chillers.

Multiple 30-ton Liebert CRACs with N+1 redundancy. · Multiple 78-ton Liebert glycol condensing units, stated as 1,014 tons of capacity, with N+4 redundancy. · 50-ton Trane HVAC units dedicated to electric-room equipment, including UPS systems. · 22-ton Liebert CRACs serving the POP with N+1 redundancy. · 24,000-CFM chilled-water CRAHs in an N+3 configuration. · 550-ton variable-frequency-drive York chillers with N+1 redundancy.

Profile

Project scope: Data Foundry 00 (formerly Texas.net/Austin 1) is an operating 40,000-square-foot facility that launched in July 2003. The historical specification sheet identifies 21,133 square feet of raised floor.
Power and grid: 400 MW of utility service is reported for the exact facility.
Compute role: Operating Data Foundry 00/Austin 1 facility at 7401 East Ben White Boulevard. It provides wholesale and retail colocation, including partial and full cabinets, secure custom cages, private suites, remote-hands support, redundant power and cooling, and 24x7x365 operational support.
Cooling and environment: Multiple 30-ton Liebert CRACs with N+1 redundancy. Multiple 78-ton Liebert glycol condensing units, stated as 1,014 tons of capacity, with N+4 redundancy. The facility specification identifies 1,500-kW Caterpillar diesel generators and a 6,000-gallon onsite fuel tank, representing a potential combustion-emissions and fuel-storage impact; no site-specific emissions quantity was provided.
Local reporting: The article identifies Data Foundry’s first data center, formerly known as Texas.net, at Digital Realty’s 7401 E Ben White Blvd. in Austin and distinguishes it from the separate Smith School Road and Round Rock projects.

Organizations

Material, source-backed organizations directly involved with this facility or its parent campus. Duplicate legal names and incidental community mentions are excluded.

OrganizationRoleScope

SwitchOperatorExact Asset

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

Jul 2003
Jul 2003
Austin 1 / Data Foundry 00 entered operation
Austin 1/Data Foundry 00 at 7401 East Ben White Boulevard launched in July 2003 and was rebranded Data Foundry 00 in 2004. The facility specification identifies 40,000 square feet total and 21,133 square feet of raised floor. No facility-level commercial power capacity or building count was established.
Feb 2, 2024
Feb 2, 2024
Switch to expand Austin data center campus in TexasData Center...
The article identifies Data Foundry’s first data center, formerly known as Texas.net, at Digital Realty’s 7401 E Ben White Blvd. in Austin and distinguishes it from the separate Smith School Road and Round Rock projects.