VIRTBIZ
Closed
VIRTBIZ Internet Services operated this 10,000-square-foot colocation facility at 2805 Canton Street in Dallas from November 2007 until closing in December 2021, when the property was sold and all systems were removed.
Overview
- Status
- Closed
- Construction started Jul 1, 2007
- Facility size
- 10,000 sq ft
- 1 reported building · Facility
- Build window
- Jul 1, 2007
- DAL1 Phase 1 involved renovating the 10,000-square-foot building acquired by VIRTBIZ in July 2007. The first customers moved in from ColoMart in November 2007. VIRTBIZ sold the property in 2021 and removed its last systems in December 2021.
- Compute profile
- Colocation
- colocation · dedicated server hosting
- Cooling design
- Glycol and air
- N+1 glycol- and air-cooled CRAC systems · N+1 CRAC chillers and dry coolers
Power and grid
- ISO / RTO
- ERCOT
- Redundancy
- Two independent electrical service entrances provide A/B power, described as North/South and East/West supply lines; the entire datacenter is backed by UPS, with automatic transfer to a Caterpillar diesel generator. Cooling is described as N+1.
- Backup generation
- Caterpillar diesel generator with automatic transfer switch; the operator reported onsite fuel for 24 hours of generator service and a six-hour safety-refueling period. No generator MW rating was reported.
- Storage
Facility and development
- Gross floor area (sq ft)
- 10,000
- Site area (acres)
- 0.29
- Buildings
- 1
- Construction
- VIRTBIZ closed on the 2805 Canton Street property in July 2007, then renovated the newly acquired 10,000-square-foot mid-century building for data-center customers. The first customers moved in from ColoMart in November 2007. The building was originally constructed in 1953 and the site was sold in 2021; the last systems were removed in December 2021.