Rice Data Center
Operating
William Marsh Rice University owns and operates the 25,400-square-foot Rice Data Center at 11620 South Main Street in Houston, completed in 2007. The facility comprises server floors, mechanical infrastructure, and shell space for institutional data and university networks.
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Overview
- Status
- Operating
- Operating facility
- Facility size
- 25,400 sq ft
- 1 reported building · Facility
- Compute profile
- Enterprise
- Rice University's institutional data needs · University data networks
- Cooling design
- Reported
- 2014 chiller addition with associated mechanical and electrical work
- Project scope
- The Rice Data Center (RDC) was constructed in 2006–2007 and completed in 2007 as a 25,400-square-foot facility consolidating Rice University's data needs. It includes server floors, mechanical infrastructure, support spaces, and shell space for future expansion.
Power and grid
- ISO / RTO
- ERCOT
- Grid flexibility
- Rice University participates in CenterPoint Energy and ERCOT load-sharing programs, but the exact Rice Data Center is identified as an off-campus facility unaffected by the cited campus curtailment event.
Facility and development
- Gross floor area (sq ft)
- 25,400
- Buildings
- 1
- Construction
- The Rice Data Center (RDC) was constructed in 2006–2007 and completed in 2007 as a 25,400-square-foot facility consolidating Rice University's data needs. It includes server floors, mechanical infrastructure, support spaces, and shell space for future expansion. The RDC was the second building added to the Rice University South Annex site.
- Facility class
Timeline
- Rice University South Annex: Library Service Center & Data Center At 11620 South Main St.Houston Are...
A local Houston architecture forum identifies the project as the Rice University South Annex Library Service Center and Data Center at 11620 South Main Street. A 2020 post describes the Rice Data Center building and notes possible dirt movement at the back of the property, but does not establish a new data-center project, hearing, opposition, or litigation.
Organizations
Susan and Raymond BrochsteinLandownerCampus
Linbeck Ground LLCContractorExact Asset