Developers have started construction on a huge new data center campus in southern Dallas County. Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters and developer Bandera Ventures are building the PowerCampus Dallas project on 100 acres in Lancaster near Interstate-35E. By Steve Brown

The deal, a partnership with Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management, "brings together expertise in multiple disciplines that are critical for delivering significant capacity in this dynamic data center market," Skybox Datacenters CEO Rob Morris said. Click through to learn more about this project and to find out why DFW is such a hot landing spot for these kinds of facilities.

Skybox Datacenters, an expert mission-critical data center developer, owner, and operator, announced today it has commenced the development of a new data center campus, PowerCampus Dallas, in partnership with developer Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management. The campus will boast up to 300 megawatts (MW) of power supported by a private onsite substation, with up to one million-square-feet of data center space. PowerCampus Dallas, located just south of the heart of downtown Dallas, is in one of the fastest-growing data center submarkets in the nation. The campus is surrounded by some of the strongest infrastructure in the region, providing seamless interconnections and unparalleled expansion capabilities.

Skybox Datacenters is joining the data center building boom south of Dallas. Skybox will partner with developer Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management on PowerCampus Dallas, a 300-megawatt project in Lancaster, Texas, the companies said today.

The Dallas project will be the ninth campus for Skybox and continues its development activity in the Texas market. Skybox built its first project in Houston, and has two projects underway in Austin, including a massive 600-megawatt project in Hutto.

“PowerCampus Dallas will raise the bar in the North Texas data center market and beyond,” said Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters. “This partnership brings together expertise in multiple disciplines that are critical for delivering significant capacity in this dynamic data center market.”

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Skybox Datacenters and Prologis plan to build a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space. The project will build additional momentum for data center development in Austin, which has become a magnet for tech companies.

The Skybox PowerCampus Austin will be located in Hutto, which is about 25 miles north of Downtown Austin, and is scheduled to begin delivering capacity in 2024. The project will be located just north of Skybox Austin I, a 30-megawatt (MW) data center facility in Pflugerville which will come online later this year.

The PowerCampus Austin development agreement was approved Thursday night by the Hutto City Council.

Customers expect their data to be available anytime, anywhere. That’s where Skybox comes in—they own, operate and develop data centers that serve enterprise clients across the nation. Keeping data online is their core focus.

To answer this challenge, it’s necessary for Skybox to run equipment 24/7 without interruption. Since data centers require a lot of power—an industrial-sized center uses as much energy as a small town—Skybox turned to us for a solution.

Austin has become one of the hot new destinations for startups and tech companies. It’s no surprise that it’s also gaining traction as a home for data centers.

Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are partnering on a new data center in Pflugerville, a northern suburb of Austin. The Skybox Austin I project is the latest collaboration between data center developer Skybox and Prologis, one of the world’s largest logistics companies.