Digital Realty — 1505 Ferris Road Data Center — Garland, TX · Ask the Grid

Overview

Status: Unknown; Construction started Feb 1, 2023
Facility size: 181,200 sq ft; 1 reported building · Building
Project cost: $59.4M; Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.
Build window: Feb 1, 2023–Aug 1, 2024; Project Gold Garland is a one-story data center at 1505 Ferris Road. TDLR describes approximately 181,200 square feet of new construction, including core and shell, a visitor center, guard house, and associated site improvements. A contractor source states that the facility was designed to deliver 16 MW. The August 1, 2024 date is the permit's scheduled construction completion date and is not treated as an operating date.
Building program: 1 building · one-story; Project Gold Garland
Cooling design: Air; Free-air cooling

Project scope: Digital Realty’s Project Gold Garland at 1505 Ferris Road is a privately funded, privately owned new-construction data center. The TDLR permit describes a one-story approximately 181,200-square-foot facility with core and shell, a visitor center, guard house, and associated site improvements.
Power and grid: 2N (reported by local data‑center directory entry)
Compute role: Digital Realty's Project Gold Garland is a one-story, approximately 181,200-square-foot data-center building at 1505 Ferris Road. The official permit record lists new construction with an August 1, 2024 completion date and review complete; a secondary facility listing describes the exact site as operational.
Cooling and environment: Free-air cooling. The reported free-air-cooling design is intended to reduce water usage; no quantified environmental impact was disclosed.

Project Gold Garland

Project Gold Garland is a one-story data center at 1505 Ferris Road. TDLR describes approximately 181,200 square feet of new construction, including core and shell, a visitor center, guard house, and associated site improvements. A contractor source states that the facility was designed to deliver 16 MW. The August 1, 2024 date is the permit's scheduled construction completion date and is not treated as an operating date.

Facility and development

Gross floor area (sq ft): 181,200
Site area (acres): 15
Buildings: 1
Construction: Digital Realty’s Project Gold Garland at 1505 Ferris Road is a privately funded, privately owned new-construction data center. The TDLR permit describes a one-story approximately 181,200-square-foot facility with core and shell, a visitor center, guard house, and associated site improvements. The permit listed construction from February 1, 2023, through August 1, 2024; a later industry report described the project as under construction in March 2024. Commercial operation was not explicitly documented.
Land transaction: No land sale or acquisition transaction was identified. The official permit states that the project was privately funded, on private land, for private use.
Facility class: Colocation
Cooling systems: Free-air cooling
Cooling medium: Air
Operating context: Digital Realty's Project Gold Garland is a one-story, approximately 181,200-square-foot data-center building at 1505 Ferris Road. The official permit record lists new construction with an August 1, 2024 completion date and review complete; a secondary facility listing describes the exact site as operational. Public sources describe Digital Realty's broader operating model as colocation and interconnection for enterprise and cloud customers, but do not disclose site-specific operating procedures.
Environmental commitments: The facility is designed to use free-air cooling to reduce water usage.
Environmental impacts: The reported free-air-cooling design is intended to reduce water usage; no quantified environmental impact was disclosed.
Project cost (USD): 59,400,000
Utility agreements: Garland Power & Light approved temporary electric distribution service for Digital Garland Ferris, L.P. for construction and pre-occupancy testing at 1505 Ferris Road. Digital was responsible for the construction cost, including an initial $410,000 payment, with service capped at 13 MVA and scheduled until the earlier of December 31, 2024 or the in-service date of Digital's permanent substation.
Permits and dockets: Texas TDLR TABS2023002649 — Digital Realty-Project Gold Garland; new construction; approximately 181,200 square feet; estimated cost $59.4 million; Review Complete. · Texas TDLR TABS2023013251 — Digital Realty-Project Gold Garland PBB; $16 million interior fit-out for the guard house, precheck pavilion, portions of the data center, infrastructure rooms, and a generator; 59,482 square feet; Review Complete. · Texas TDLR TABS2023013252 — Digital Realty-Project Gold Garland-Suite Fit Out DH01 & DH02; $40 million tenant finish-out of two data-hall suites and supporting mechanical/electrical spaces; 82,000 square feet; Review Complete. · Garland City Council detail-plan request for Digital Garland Ferris, LP to construct a data center at the 1805 Holford Road and 1505 Ferris Road site.
Transactions: 2022 agreement between the City of Garland/Garland Power & Light and Digital Garland Ferris, L.P. for construction of temporary electric-distribution facilities and service; Digital was to pay the construction cost and an initial $410,000 payment.
Public hearings: On December 6, 2022, Garland held a public hearing concerning removal of Ferris Road from the Garland Thoroughfare Plan for the site area identified in the council transcript as 1805/1505 Ferris Road in District 1. No one requested to speak, and the motion was approved unanimously. The hearing concerned roadway planning rather than opposition to the data-center building. · Garland's October 17, 2022 work-session agenda scheduled formal consideration of an agreement with Digital Garland Ferris, L.P. for temporary electric distribution service to the 14.955-acre tract at 1505 Ferris Road. This was a council utility proceeding, not a hearing specifically characterized as data-center opposition.
Community benefits: Garland Power & Light agreed to provide temporary electric distribution service for construction and pre-occupancy testing at the 1505 Ferris Road property. Digital Garland Ferris, L.P. was responsible for the service costs, including an initial $410,000 payment, additional facility-construction costs, and power consumed. · Data Center Dynamics reported that the 1505 Ferris Road Phase 1 project was associated with a $500,000 development-fee rebate, a two-year 40% business-personal-property-tax rebate, and a four-year 40% property-tax rebate. These incentive terms were reported by the trade source but were not independently verified from the city agenda endpoint, which returned an error. · The exact-address Project Gold Garland facility received LEED v4 BD+C: Data Centers Gold certification on December 3, 2025, with a reported size of 178,319 square feet.
Petitions: No site-specific petition concerning Digital Realty's 1505 Ferris Road project was identified in the reviewed official records, local-government materials, or exact-address trade coverage.
Opposition or litigation: No site-specific organized opposition or litigation concerning the 1505 Ferris Road Digital Realty project was identified in the reviewed sources. A Digital Realty Form 10-K litigation-risk disclosure mentions Digital Garland Ferris generally but does not identify litigation involving this project.

Regulatory record: Digital Realty-Project Gold Garland is a privately funded, privately owned new-construction project at 1505 Ferris Road, Garland. The TDLR record describes a one-story data center of approximately 181,200 square feet, including core and shell, visitor center, guard house, and associated site improvements. The registered construction period was February 1, 2023 through August 1, 2024, and TDLR status is Review Complete. Garland separately considered a detail-plan request for Digital Garland Ferris, LP covering the data-center site.

DLR DFW39 Project Gold Garland — The USGBC project record identifies DLR DFW39 Project Gold Garland at 1505 Ferris Road and records its LEED Gold certification.

Digital Realty — 1505 Ferris Road

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