Houston 2 Data Center

Operating · Switch · 660 Greens Parkway, Houston, Texas

Switch owns and Data Foundry operates the Houston 2 Data Center campus, a 377,000-square-foot colocation and AI/HPC facility at 660 Greens Parkway, Houston. The original 350,000-sq-ft facility (60 MW, operational October 2015) was expanded by 27,000 sq ft in 2019 and POD 2–Phase 1 (27,750 sq ft, operational August 2023). Total campus capacity is reported as 60 MW with scalable Cummins diesel backup generators.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operating campus
Exact-site power: 2.25 MW
Backup Generation · Reported
Facility size: 377,000 sq ft
Campus
Project cost: $4.0M
Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.

Houston 2 Data Center

Operating · Switch · 660 Greens Parkway, Houston, Texas

Switch owns and Data Foundry operates the Houston 2 Data Center campus, a 377,000-square-foot colocation and AI/HPC facility at 660 Greens Parkway, Houston. The original 350,000-sq-ft facility (60 MW, operational October 2015) was expanded by 27,000 sq ft in 2019 and POD 2–Phase 1 (27,750 sq ft, operational August 2023). Total campus capacity is reported as 60 MW with scalable Cummins diesel backup generators.

Website Open in grid

Overview

Status: Operating
Operating campus
Exact-site power: 2.25 MW
Backup Generation · Reported
Facility size: 377,000 sq ft
Campus
Project cost: $4.0M
Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.

Opened

Oct 12, 2015

Houston 2 original facility

Compute profile

Colocation · AI HPC

high-performance computing (HPC) · blade-server environments

Profile

Project scope: Houston 2 is an operating, master-planned data-center campus at 660 Greens Parkway. The original 350,000-square-foot facility broke ground in April 2014 and was reported operational in October 2015.
Power and grid: 2.25 MW of backup generation is reported for the exact facility. 60 MW applies to the wider campus, not this building alone.
Compute role: Operating Data Foundry campus providing wholesale and retail colocation, full and half cabinets, secure cages, hard-walled private data suites, dedicated customer offices, 24x7x365 on-site NOC and remote-hands support. The facility is concurrently maintainable and supports HPC-oriented deployments.
Cooling and environment: Concurrently maintainable chilled-water cooling system. N+1 550-ton VFD York chillers with fast restart. The facility uses diesel backup generators, creating potential regulated air emissions; TCEQ records state that Tx Hou 2 certified enforceable hourly and annual emission rates below applicable state and federal rule thresholds.
Local reporting: Reported Data Foundry’s opening of Houston 2 in October 2015 and identified it as a 350,000-square-foot facility in the Greenspoint District, with dedicated office space and a technology briefing center.

Organizations

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

OrganizationRoleScope

SwitchOwnerCampus

Data FoundryOperator · DeveloperCampus

Instanet SolutionsTenantCampus

San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc.UtilityCampus

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014
Houston 2 original facility construction started
Original Houston 2 facility: a 350,000-square-foot purpose-built data center with 175,000 square feet of total raised floor and 60 MW power capacity.
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014
Houston 2 original facility announced
Original Houston 2 facility: a 350,000-square-foot purpose-built data center with 175,000 square feet of total raised floor and 60 MW power capacity.
Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015
Grand Opening Celebration for Data Foundry’s Houston 2 Data CenterData Foundry
Data Foundry’s official grand-opening announcement identified Houston 2, described investment in the Greenspoint District, and reported employment opportunities for local-college technical talent.
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1. Oct 12, 2015
  Oct 12, 2015
  Data Foundry opens second data center in Houston, TXData Center...
  Reported Data Foundry’s opening of Houston 2 in October 2015 and identified it as a 350,000-square-foot facility in the Greenspoint District, with dedicated office space and a technology briefing center.
2. Oct 12, 2015
Jan 16, 2020
Jan 16, 2020
Data Foundry Celebrates the Expansion of its Houston 2 Data Center on January 23iMiller Pub...
Announced a January 2020 celebration of the Houston 2 expansion and explicitly gave the facility address as 660 Greens Parkway, Houston, Texas.
Jun 1, 2023
Jun 1, 2023
POD 2 – Phase 1 announced
POD 2 – Phase 1 at 660 Greens Parkway. The permit record lists a 27,750-square-foot floor area, a June 1, 2023 application and approval date, and an actual operational date of August 7, 2023.
Aug 7, 2023
Aug 7, 2023
POD 2 – Phase 1 entered operation
POD 2 – Phase 1 at 660 Greens Parkway. The permit record lists a 27,750-square-foot floor area, a June 1, 2023 application and approval date, and an actual operational date of August 7, 2023.

Sources

PublisherReferenceType

records.tceq.texas.govSourceGovernment filing

switch.comGreen Datacenter | Data Center Services | SwitchOfficial source

switch.comSwitch Launches Fifth Prime Campus in Texas; Agrees to Acquire Data FoundryOfficial source

Oct 12, 2015

Houston 2 original facility entered operation

Original Houston 2 facility: a 350,000-square-foot purpose-built data center with 175,000 square feet of total raised floor and 60 MW power capacity.

Sep 24, 2019

Houston 2 27,000-square-foot data-hall expansion announced

New data hall expansion at the Houston 2 campus, offering 27,000 square feet of white-floor space and 4 MW; the expansion was expected to increase the campus total to 377,000 square feet.

Sep 24, 2019

Houston data center to expand in GreenspointHouston Bus...

Reported a Data Foundry Houston II expansion in Greenspoint and stated that the build-out was valued at approximately $4 million according to a City of Houston building permit.

Sep 25, 2019

Houston 2 27,000-square-foot data-hall expansion construction started

New data hall expansion at the Houston 2 campus, offering 27,000 square feet of white-floor space and 4 MW; the expansion was expected to increase the campus total to 377,000 square feet.