# Digital Realty Austin AUS11

ERCOT data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/digital-realty-austin-aus11

Digital Realty operates AUS11, an 85,500-sq-ft colocation building at 7500 Metro Center Drive in Austin, commissioned and currently operating. The facility receives 16 MW of utility power via dual 8 MW underground feeds. Backup generation consists of one 2 MW generator per tenant and one shared N+1 redundant 2 MW generator.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: building
- Location: 7500 Metro Center Drive, Austin, Travis County, TX
- Operator: Digital Realty (exact asset) — https://www.digitalrealty.com

## Power and grid context

- Utility service: 16 MW · reported · exact asset — Reported access to 16 MW of utility power; the site is also described as having dual 8 MW underground electrical feeds.
- Backup generation: 2 MW · operating · exact asset — One 2 MW generator per TKD.
- Backup generation: 2 MW · operating · exact asset — One shared redundant 2 MW generator configured as N+1.
- ISO/RTO: ERCOT
- Balancing authority: ERCOT
- Electric utility: Austin Energy
- Substation: Unnamed redundant substations serving the site via diverse underground electrical ductbanks; the substations are reported to be on different nodes of the local 138 kV transmission system.

## Development

- Site status: Operating / commissioned
- Gross floor area: 85,500 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: Digital Realty AUS11 is an operating, two-level data-center building at 7500 Metro Center Drive. Digital Realty reports 85,500 square feet of total building space. An exact-address Austin permit filed in 2013 covered tenant finish-out work for data-center rooms; the permit record does not establish a construction start or completion date for the building.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, enterprise
- Workloads: high-performance computing, disaster recovery, high-density critical applications
- Operating context: Operating Digital Realty colocation facility offering space from single cabinets to private data-center suites. The two-level building is approximately 85,500 sq ft and supports high-performance computing and disaster-recovery use.

## Sources

- [http://electricityrates.com/texas/ercot](http://electricityrates.com/texas/ercot)
- [Austin Energy Design Criteria](https://austinenergy.com/-/media/project/websites/austinenergy/contractors/designcriteriamanual.pdf)
- [7500 METRO CENTER DR, 78744 — Permit History](https://austintexaspermitsearch.com/address/7500-metro-center-dr-89b277)
- [Permit 2000-009931 BP — 7500 METRO CENTER DR BLDG 11 | Austin Permit Search](https://austintexaspermitsearch.com/permit/2000-009931%20BP)
- [Permit 2000-009931 PP — 7500 METRO CENTER DR BLDG 11 | Austin Permit Search](https://austintexaspermitsearch.com/permit/2000-009931%20PP)
- [Digital Realty: AUS11 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/digital-realty-aus11)
- [Digital Realty AUS11 Austin](https://centexdatacenters.org/tracker/digital-realty-austin)
- [Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (Form: 10-K, Received: 02/28/2012 06:21:32)](https://content.edgar-online.com/ExternalLink/EDGAR/0001193125-12-082659.html?hash=650bb058604d1ab46712a05465a4aedc2f809c875d50fdbea57f8ede0170e2d4&dest=D263690DEX1012_HTM)
- [7500 METRO CENTER DR - AUSTIN, TX](https://datacenter.fyi/public-record/7500-metro-center-dr-93f3360b?ref=interconnection.fyi&utm_source=interconnection.fyi&utm_medium=referral)
- [Digital Realty AUS11 | 7500 Metro Center Drive, Austin - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/7500-metro-center-drive/aus11)
- [Fetched web page](https://go2.digitalrealty.com/rs/087-YZJ-646/images/DS_Digital_Realty_2330_AUS11_Property_Factsheet_EN.pdf)
- [Unknown DC Operator 2013-029109 BP — Austin, TX | MLQ Infrastructure](https://mlq.ai/permit-filings/usa/texas/austin/2013-029109-bp/)
- [Permit Search - Texas.gov](https://permit-search.tceq.texas.gov/)
- [Fetched web page](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=247464)
- [City of Austin | AustinTexas.gov](https://www.austintexas.gov/)
- [7500 METRO CENTER DR - AUSTIN, TX | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/7500-metro-center-dr-93f3360b?ref=interconnection.fyi&utm_source=interconnection.fyi&utm_medium=referral)
- [Digital Realty buys two Austin data centers - DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/digital-realty-buys-two-austin-data-centers/)
- [7500 Metro Center Drive in Austin | Digital Realty (4.2 MW)](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/texas/austin/7500-metro-center-drive/)
- [7500 Metro Center Drive (AUS11) - Specs](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/texas/austin/7500-metro-center-drive/specs/)
- [Digital Realty Data Center in Austin TX](https://www.datacenters.com/digital-realty-austin-aus11)
- [Austin Data Center & Colocation | Digital Realty](https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/austin)
- [AUS11 Data Center | 7500 Metro Center Drive| Digital Realty](https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/austin/aus11)
- [7500 Metro Center Dr, Austin, TX 78744 | LoopNet](https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/7500-Metro-Center-Dr-Austin-TX/25179861/)
- [Digital Realty Acquires Fully Leased Operating Data Center in Austin, Texas](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digital-realty-acquires-fully-leased-operating-data-center-in-austin-texas-159542485.html)
- [Digital Realty Acquires Six-Building Portfolio In Austin, Texas](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digital-realty-acquires-six-building-portfolio-in-austin-texas-209478011.html)
- [DLR METRO CENTER - PBB UPFIT | $1.0M Renovation/Alteration at 7500 METRO CENTER DR., Austin, TX 78744, Austin, Travis | Zabalist](https://www.zabalist.com/projects/EABPRJB3807827)
- [Travis County Commissioners Court Agenda Request Item ...](https://www2.traviscountytx.gov/commissioners_court/agendas/2014/05/backup/item_backup_20140527/vs20140527_10.pdf)

## Data quality

- Digital Realty identifies AUS11 at 7500 Metro Center Drive, Austin, Texas 78744, as a two-story, 85,500-square-foot facility.
- An Austin building-permit record describes commercial data-center tenant finish-out work at 7500 Metro Center Drive and lists related permits at that address.
- A 2016 Austin Energy tariff proceeding lists Digital Realty Trust personnel at 7500 Metro Center Drive.
- The evidence does not establish exact-site tenants, MW capacity, water use, PUE, WUE, generator count, cooling type, or commercial terms. Nearby MetCenter properties and other Austin facilities were excluded.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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