Equinix Infomart

Operating · Equinix · 1950 North Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX

Equinix owns and operates Equinix DA1, a 30,354-square-foot colocation facility within the 1.6-million-square-foot Infomart building in Dallas, which opened in 1985; Equinix established DA1 around 2000. The facility houses telecommunications, enterprise IT, cloud, AI, and edge workloads and maintains 4.5 MW of backup diesel-generator capacity.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operating: Equinix DA1 is an active data-center facility within the Infomart building.
Exact-site power: 4.5 MW
Backup Generation · Operating
Facility size: 1,600,000 sq ft
1 reported building · Building
Opened: 1985
Infomart building
Compute profile

Equinix Infomart

Operating · Equinix · 1950 North Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX

Equinix owns and operates Equinix DA1, a 30,354-square-foot colocation facility within the 1.6-million-square-foot Infomart building in Dallas, which opened in 1985; Equinix established DA1 around 2000. The facility houses telecommunications, enterprise IT, cloud, AI, and edge workloads and maintains 4.5 MW of backup diesel-generator capacity.

Website Open in grid

Overview

Status: Operating
Operating: Equinix DA1 is an active data-center facility within the Infomart building.
Exact-site power: 4.5 MW
Backup Generation · Operating
Facility size: 1,600,000 sq ft
1 reported building · Building
Opened: 1985
Infomart building
Compute profile

Colocation · Cloud

telecommunications and network interconnection · enterprise IT

Cooling design

Reported

Advanced cooling solutions with N+1 cooling redundancy

Profile

Project scope: The Infomart building at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway opened in 1985 as a 1.6-million-gross-square-foot, seven-floor building. Equinix established DA1, its first data center in the Infomart, around 2000.
Power and grid: 4.5 MW of backup generation is reported for the exact facility.
Compute role: Operating Equinix International Business Exchange facility providing premium colocation, telecommunications interconnection, cross-connects, cloud connectivity and managed infrastructure services at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway, Suite 1034, within the Infomart building.
Cooling and environment: Advanced cooling solutions with N+1 cooling redundancy.
Local reporting: Equinix announced its agreement to acquire the Infomart Dallas, including its operations and tenants, in an $800 million transaction.

Organizations

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

OrganizationRoleScope

EquinixOwner · OperatorExact Asset · Building

ASB Real Estate InvestmentsLandownerBuilding

City of DallasRegulatorExact Asset

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

1985
1985
Infomart building entered operation
Infomart building: the exact-site building opened in 1985 and is described as a seven-floor, approximately 1.6-million-gross-square-foot facility. The building houses multiple separately identified data centers, including Equinix DA1.
2000
2000
Equinix DA1 entered operation
Equinix DA1: Equinix established its first Infomart data center around 2000. The official Equinix page identifies DA1 at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway, Suite 1034, with 30,354 square feet of colocation space and a seven-story reinforced-concrete building description. No DA1-specific power capacity or construction dates were identified.
Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018
Equinix to Acquire the Infomart Dallas in $800 Million DealEquinix New...
Equinix announced its agreement to acquire the Infomart Dallas, including its operations and tenants, in an $800 million transaction. The announcement identified DA1, DA2, DA3, and DA6 as data centers housed in the Infomart building and stated that approximately 50 employees and contractors would transfer to Equinix.
Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
Equinix Completes Acquisition of Infomart DallasEquinix Inv...
Equinix reported completion of its acquisition of the Infomart Dallas. It described the building as a 1.6-million-square-foot facility with more than 50 tenants and identified DA1, DA2, DA3, and DA6 as Equinix data centers located in the Infomart.
Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018
Data Center Giant Equinix and Coworking Firm Headed to Frisco StationNBC 5 Dalla...
Local coverage reported that Equinix had paid $800 million to purchase Dallas's Infomart and quoted Equinix describing its continued commitment to the region. The article primarily concerned Equinix's nearby Frisco Station office lease, so only its Infomart acquisition statements are treated as exact-asset evidence.
Jun 24, 2020
Jun 24, 2020
Equinix Expands Dallas Infomart Campus with New $142M Data Center and 5G Proof of Concept CenterPR Newswire
Equinix announced the opening of the DA11 data center and a 5G and Edge Proof of Concept Center as an expansion of the Dallas Infomart Data Center campus. The article identifies the campus and a separate second building, so it is treated as campus/phase evidence rather than evidence about the exact DA1 facility.