# Data Foundry Data Ranch Austin Campus

ERCOT data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/data-foundry-data-ranch-austin-campus--grid-load-8551df95ebe0cd33

Data Ranch is Data Foundry's Austin colocation campus at 4100 Smith School Road, home to Data Foundry 01 and Data Foundry 02, formerly Texas 1 and Texas 2. Its development spans DF01's 2011 opening and DF02's late-2017 opening, with later phases distinguished from the space already built. The campus uses redundant utility feeds and carrier-neutral networking for enterprise and disaster-recovery deployments. Austin Energy's 2018 rebate assessment documents efficiency improvements at Texas 2, including estimated energy savings rather than measured consumption. Switch acquired Data Foundry in 2021; this campus is separate from Switch's Rock location at Dell's headquarters.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: campus
- Location: 4100 Smith School Road, Austin, TX
- Operator: Data Foundry (exact asset) — https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-ranch/

## Power and grid context

- ISO/RTO: ERCOT
- Electric utility: Austin Energy

## Development

- Buildings: 2
- Construction: The operator dates Data Foundry 01's opening to 2011 and Data Foundry 02's opening to late 2017. Its September 2016 announcement described DF02 as a three-phase, 325,000-square-foot development with approximately $200 million in planned investment. Austin Energy's 2018 assessment identifies 153,764 square feet of Texas 2 built in 2017. The campus page describes DF01 and the first DF02 phase; the ultimate planned footprint is not treated as completed construction.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation
- Operating context: Wholesale and retail colocation, build-to-suit services and disaster-recovery workspace are offered on the campus. The operator markets support for high-density deployments; no installed accelerator or customer workload inventory is disclosed.

## Sources

- [https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=297553](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=297553)
- [https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=299406](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=299406)
- [https://switchdotcom.s3-sites.data.switch.com/df/media/texas-2.pdf](https://switchdotcom.s3-sites.data.switch.com/df/media/texas-2.pdf)
- [https://www.datafoundry.com/about-us/history/](https://www.datafoundry.com/about-us/history/)
- [https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-foundry-01/](https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-foundry-01/)
- [https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-foundry-02/](https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-foundry-02/)
- [https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-ranch/](https://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/data-ranch/)
- [https://www.datafoundry.com/data-foundry-build-325000-sq-ft-data-center-austin-tx/](https://www.datafoundry.com/data-foundry-build-325000-sq-ft-data-center-austin-tx/)
- [https://www.switch.com/austin/](https://www.switch.com/austin/)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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