DataBank DFW1 (Downtown Dallas Data Center)

Operating · Digital Realty Trust, Inc. · 400 South Akard Street, Dallas, TX

DataBank operates DFW1 at 400 South Akard Street in Dallas, a building with 145,250 IT square feet currently serving colocation and AI/HPC workloads. The facility reports 28.8 MW of onsite power in a 2N configuration (14.4 MW A + 14.4 MW B) and 7 MW of critical IT load.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operating building
Exact-site power: 7 MW
Critical IT Load · Operating
Site: 7.61 acres
Building
Compute profile: Colocation · Telecom Edge
colocation · carrier-hotel and interconnection services

DataBank DFW1 (Downtown Dallas Data Center)

Operating · Digital Realty Trust, Inc. · 400 South Akard Street, Dallas, TX

DataBank operates DFW1 at 400 South Akard Street in Dallas, a building with 145,250 IT square feet currently serving colocation and AI/HPC workloads. The facility reports 28.8 MW of onsite power in a 2N configuration (14.4 MW A + 14.4 MW B) and 7 MW of critical IT load.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operating building
Exact-site power: 7 MW
Critical IT Load · Operating
Site: 7.61 acres
Building
Compute profile: Colocation · Telecom Edge
colocation · carrier-hotel and interconnection services

Cooling design

Air and water: perimeter air cooling supported by a dual-loop cooling system with on-site water storage.

N+1 cooling design for the exact DFW1 facility. · Redundant HVAC with a highly efficient perimeter cooling system. · Dual-loop cooling system backed by on-site secured water storage tanks. · Hot-aisle/cold-aisle configuration for airflow management. · Secondary exact-site listing reports more than 3,500 tons of cooling-tower capacity, 118 30-ton Liebert CRAC units, N+1 redundancy, and an 80,000-gallon reserve make-up water tank.

Profile

Project scope: Operating DataBank DFW1 facility at 400 South Akard, housed in the former Federal Reserve Building. DataBank reports 145,250 IT square feet, 7 MW of critical IT load, and a separate fact sheet reports 28.8 MW of on-site power.
Power and grid: 7 MW of critical it load is reported for the exact facility.
Compute role: Operating DataBank DFW1 is a colocation and interconnection facility in the former Federal Reserve Building. It provides cabinets and cages, remote/smart hands, cloud connectivity, and HPC-capable deployments; the official facility page lists 145,250 IT square feet and a 7 MW critical IT load.
Cooling and environment: N+1 cooling design for the exact DFW1 facility. Redundant HVAC with a highly efficient perimeter cooling system. The facility's cooling and backup-power systems create potential electricity, refrigerant, diesel-emissions, and heat-rejection impacts, but no DFW1-specific quantities were identified.
Local reporting: Trade/public-relations announcement of DE-CIX Dallas’s new switch and point of presence inside DataBank’s downtown Dallas data center at 400 South Akard.

Organizations

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

OrganizationRoleScope

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.OwnerBuilding

DataBankOperator · TenantExact Asset · Building

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLCUtilityExact Asset

City of DallasRegulatorExact Asset

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019
DE-CIX Dallas’ Major Switch Site at DataBank 400 South Akard Now LiveiMiller Pub...
Trade/public-relations announcement of DE-CIX Dallas’s new switch and point of presence inside DataBank’s downtown Dallas data center at 400 South Akard.
Aug 27, 2019
Aug 27, 2019
DE-CIX Dallas Delivers Diverse Interconnection and Peering with a New Point of Presence at DataBank 400 South AkardData Center...
Trade article covering the same DE-CIX deployment and explicitly identifying the new point of presence as being at DataBank’s 400 South Akard facility.

Sources

PublisherReferenceType

sec.govSourceGovernment filing

tceq.texas.govHomepage - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ...Government filing

tdlr.texas.govProject DetailsGovernment filing