Houston data center construction ramped up in 2018, with a major prelease by an Australian oil and gas company driving the additions to the market, according to a CBRE report.
Source: Houston Chronicle
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look inside a DUG immersion-cooled data hall, showing the cooling enclosures filled with diecletric fluid and the piping where the cooling loop enters the enclosure. The Skybox deployment will use more than 700 of these tanks. (Photo: DownUnder GeoSolutions)
One of the world’s most powerful computing systems is coming to Houston, featuring over 40,000 servers immersed in liquid coolant. The massive system from DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) is expected to deliver 250 petaflops – more computing power than the world’s top supercomputers.
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Largest Colocation Data Center Transaction in Houston’s History at 15 Megawatts
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia-based DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced today it has selected Skybox Datacenters and Houston, Texas for its global expansion of a revolutionary oil and gas exploration technology.
Source: Purpose Media Group, Carey Marin
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The project team, from left to right: Gordon Kellerman (Skybox), Bryan Bennett (Bennett DCS), Ben Grigg (DUG), Randy Anderson (DUG), Stuart Midgley (DUG), Mark Lommers (DUG), Emily Smyth (DUG), Rob Morris (Skybox).
By Chris Mathews – Reporter, Houston Business Journal An Australian oil and gas seismic technology company has chosen the Houston area for a data center after a global search, which represents the city’s biggest such deal to date.
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Dallas is notable for the diversity of its data center ecosystem, with strong demand for retail colocation, wholesale data center space, powered shell and build-to-suit projects.
The Dallas data center market has solidified its position as one of the largest and most active data center markets in the U.S., and the region is in the throes of a data center building boom, with hundreds of megawatts of potential capacity on the drawing board.