DFW25 Data Center — Richardson, TX · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
100 MW	Utility Service	Reported	Campus	—
Dedicated privately owned substation serving the park is reported as capable of delivering up to 100 MW. This is campus/park utility-service capability, not DFW25 contracted or critical-IT load.
6.975 MW	UPS capacity	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Rackspace’s 2020 DFW3 datasheet reports 6.975 MW of UPS power capacity for this facility.

Balancing authority: ERCOT
Substation: Dedicated, privately owned on-site substation serving the Digital Dallas park; no formal substation name is publicly identified.
Redundancy: Dual-fed underground utility power; N+1 UPS and cooling redundancy; reported 2N power redundancy; 2 MW emergency generators configured N+1.
Backup generation: Secondary backup power is reported from 2 MW generators configured N+1. The sources do not state generator count or aggregate backup capacity.
Onsite generation: No non-backup prime-generation source was publicly identified; the exact-site records identify emergency generators only.
Power sources: ERCOT grid electricity delivered through Oncor · Emergency generator backup power
Grid flexibility: Documented flexibility is limited to redundant utility feeds, UPS systems, emergency generation, and reported battery storage; no public evidence identifies demand-response participation or grid-services dispatch.

Facility and development

IT floor area (sq ft): 60,000
Gross floor area (sq ft): 118,000
Site area (acres): 69
Buildings: 1
Construction: The exact facility is a single-story Digital Realty building at 1215 Integrity Drive. KDC developed it for Digital Realty on a seven-month schedule, with completion recorded as 2012. KDC’s 2012 campus announcement described the first ground-up facility as approximately 112,000 square feet; current Digital Realty identifies the building as 118,000 square feet.
Facility class: Colocation · Cloud
Workloads: colocation · dedicated hosting and servers · private cloud · public cloud · hybrid cloud · managed storage and backup · network management and security · compliance management
Availability tier: Tier III Standards Compliant
Cooling systems: Reliable, energy-efficient cooling systems with N+1 cooling redundancy
Fiber and connectivity: Carrier-neutral facility with more than 20 Tier-1 providers, a dedicated dark-fiber ring with diverse paths and full redundancy, on-site carrier-class meet-me rooms, and four carriers providing fiber-based connectivity to the site. Digital Realty separately describes access to more than 60 network service providers at DFW25.
Operating context: Operating Rackspace data center within Digital Realty's DFW25 facility at 1215 Integrity Drive. The site provides enterprise-grade managed infrastructure, colocation, dedicated hosting/servers, managed network and security services, hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud, and managed storage and backup.
Environmental commitments: DFW25 is listed as using 100% renewable energy. · DFW25 is listed with ISO 14001 certification.
Power purchase agreements: The acquisition presentation states that the Dallas facility's renewable-energy position was based on a wind power agreement between the sponsor and E.ON Climate and Renewables North America, LLC, together with a power and renewable-energy-credit agreement between the sponsor and Citi; no purchase price, term, volume, or delivery terms were disclosed.
Transactions: In September 2022, Digital Core REIT proposed acquiring a 90.0% interest in the Dallas data center at 1215 Integrity Drive from Digital Realty Trust L.P. Under the equity-fundraising scenario, the combined purchase consideration for the Dallas and Frankfurt facilities was US$681 million; the Dallas facility's 100%-basis agreed value was US$199 million. · The acquisition presentation identifies the 1215 Integrity Drive facility as freehold, completed in 2017, with a 100%-basis agreed value of US$199 million. This is an acquisition valuation, not a disclosed construction or development cost.

Identity and campus: Digital Dallas
Also reported as Rackspace DFW3, Rackspace Data Center: DFW3.
Regulatory record: DFW25/Rackspace DFW3 is an operating, single-story, fully fitted data center at 1215 Integrity Drive, Richardson, Texas. The Digital Core REIT acquisition materials identify the facility as freehold, completed in 2017, and 100% occupied as of June 30, 2022. No exact-asset permit number, regulatory docket, incentive award, or tax-abatement approval was identified in the reviewed corpus.
Availability tier: Tier III Standards Compliant

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