# DFW25

ERCOT data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/dfw25

Rackspace operates DFW25, a one-story, 118,000-square-foot colocation and cloud facility completed in 2012 at 1215 Integrity Drive in Richardson on a 69-acre Digital Dallas campus site. The building offers 6.975 MW of leasable IT capacity and 2 MW of N+1 backup generation.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: building
- Location: 1215 Integrity Drive, Richardson, TX
- Operator: Rackspace (exact asset) — https://www.rackspace.com/resources/rackspace-data-center-dfw3

## Power and grid context

- Utility service: 100 MW · 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.
- Leasable it load: 6.975 MW · reported · exact asset — Combined leased and available IT capacity reported for Rackspace DFW3 at 1215 Integrity Drive; converted from 6,975 kW.
- Backup generation: 2 MW · reported · exact asset — Secondary power system with 2 MW generators configured N+1.
- ISO/RTO: ERCOT
- Balancing authority: ERCOT
- Electric utility: Oncor
- Point of interconnection: The best-supported physical interconnection point is the dedicated privately owned substation serving the Digital Dallas park; no named utility bus, feeder, or formal POI identifier is publicly identified.
- Substation: Dedicated, privately owned on-site substation serving the Digital Dallas park; no formal substation name is publicly identified.
- Interconnection voltage: 0 kV
- Queue IDs: No exact DFW25 queue identifier publicly identified

## Development

- Site status: Operating
- Site area: 69 acres
- Gross floor area: 118,000 square feet
- 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.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, cloud
- Workloads: colocation, dedicated hosting and servers, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, managed storage and backup, network management and security, compliance management
- Announced tenants: Rackspace
- Critical IT load: 6.9 MW
- 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.

## Sources

- [Rackspace Richardson DFW3 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/rackspace-richardson-dfw3)
- [Handout A: Where Did the Rights to Petition and Assembly ...](https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/handout-a-where-did-the-rights-to-petition-and-assembly-come-from-and-how-do-americans-exercise-them/)
- [REGULAR BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING](https://collincad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2022-10-27_Board_Packet-1.pdf)
- [Rackspace DFW3 | 1215 Integrity Drive, Dallas/Fort Worth - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/rackspace/1215-integrity-drive/dfw3)
- [ERCOT: Everything You Need To Know](https://electricityrates.com/texas/ercot/)
- [Special Report](https://img.datacenterfrontier.com/files/base/ebm/datacenterfrontier/document/2022/09/1663627608010-dcfreportdallasdatacentermarketv3.pdf?dl=1663627608010-dcfreportdallasdatacentermarketv3.pdf)
- [Fetched web page](https://investor.digitalrealty.com/static-files/68699be4-8685-418c-92a6-70ad63290962)
- [KDC - KDC DEVELOPING TWO NEW DATA CENTERS FOR DIGITAL REALTY AT…](https://kdc.com/news/kdc-developing-two-new-data-centers-for-digital-realty-at-digital-dallas-datacampus-in-richardson-texas)
- [KDC - Digital Realty - 1215 Integrity](https://kdc.com/our-work/digital-realty-1215-integrity)
- [Fetched web page](https://s28.q4cdn.com/669718746/files/doc_news/2022/09/Digital-Core-REIT-Proposes-Inaugural-Acquisition-Presentation.pdf)
- [City of Richardson City Plan Commission Agenda ...](https://swagit-attachments.granicus.com/archive/agendas/33943/original/11-5%20RichardsonCPC.pdf)
- [1215 Integrity Drive – Alliance Architect](https://www.alliancearch.com/projects/data-centers/1215-integrity-drive/)
- [Week In Review, March 15, 2019 | Press Releases](https://www.cor.net/Home/Components/News/News/4002/149?arch=1&npage=36)
- [CTP DIGITAL REALTY - DFW25 - RICHARDSON, TX | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/ctp-digital-realty-dfw25-730f8b13)
- [CTP DIGITAL REALTY - DFW25 - RICHARDSON, TX | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/ctp-digital-realty-dfw25-730f8b13?ref=interconnection.fyi&utm_source=interconnection.fyi&utm_medium=referral)
- [News  The Data Center Construction Channel, 1215 Integrity Drive  - DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/?tag=1215-integrity-drive&term=the-data-center-construction-channel)
- [Dallas Data Centers - 192 Facilities from 51 Operators](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/texas/dallas/)
- [1215 Integrity Drive in Dallas | Digital Realty (6.9 MW)](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/texas/dallas/1215-integrity-drive/)
- [Rackspace Data Center in Richardson Texas](https://www.datacenters.com/rackspace-dfw3-dallas)
- [DFW25 Data Center | 1215 Integrity Drive | Digital Realty](https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/dallas/dfw25)
- [1215 Integrity Drive  — i.s.a.](https://www.i-sa.com/properties-general/1215-integrity-drive-overview)
- [Data Center: Dallas (DFW3) | Rackspace Technology](https://www.rackspace.com/about/data-centers/dallas)
- [Rackspace Data Center: DFW3 | Rackspace Technology](https://www.rackspace.com/resources/rackspace-data-center-dfw3)
- [Fetched web page](https://www.rackspace.com/sites/default/files/rxt_data_center_pdfs/DFW3-One-Sheet-2020_0.pdf)
- [DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC._December 31, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1494877/000110465926015365/dlr-20251231x10k.htm)

## Data quality

- The exact site identity is confirmed as Digital Realty DFW25 at 1215 Integrity Drive, Richardson, Texas; Rackspace identifies the same Richardson facility as DFW3.
- No site-specific community benefits, jobs, tax incentives, charitable commitments, or economic-benefit claims were located in the reviewed sources. General claims about the Digital Dallas campus or other Richardson data centers were not attributed to this building.
- No qualifying local or trade-news article, public hearing, community group, petition, opposition action, or litigation record was found that specifically identifies this building or address.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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