Operating
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.
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.
| Capacity | Basis | Status | Scope | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400 MW | Utility Service | Reported | Exact Asset | — |
| Dedicated Austin Energy electrical substation capacity reported in the Austin 1 specification sheet; this is substation/infrastructure capacity, not a confirmed site load or interconnection request. | ||||
| 1.5 MW | Backup Generation | Reported | Exact Asset | — |
| Each of three 1,500 kW Caterpillar diesel generators; the specification sheet reports approximately 48 hours of backup power at N+1 redundancy. | ||||
| 2.5 MW | Backup Generation | Reported | Exact Asset | — |
| A separate equipment block on the official Data Foundry 00 page reports multiple 2.5 MW Caterpillar diesel generators. This conflicts with the official specification sheet's 1.5 MW-per-generator figure and is retained separately rather than combined. | ||||
Also reported as Data Foundry Austin 1, Austin 1, Switch Austin 1, Switch AUS01, Texas.net.
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.