Alcon: Fort Worth Data Center

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Operated by: Alcon

Alcon: Fort Worth Data Center

Year Built: 2014
Utility Provider: Oncor
Ownership: Alcon owns the building.
Lot Size: 13 acres
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Alcon, the eye care company spun off from Novartis in 2019, runs a single-story data center on its US headquarters campus on South Freeway in south Fort Worth. Alcon, then part of Novartis, built it in 2014. In 2021 Alcon subdivided the data center's technical floor.

Site History

  • 2021: Alcon subdivides the technical floor.
  • April 2019: Novartis spins off Alcon, which keeps the data center.
  • 2014: The data center opens.

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Sites within 15 miles of Alcon: Fort Worth Data Center

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1.22 miles 5CDC: Dallas DFW01
5C Data Centers proposed converting a distribution warehouse on John Burgess Drive in southeast Fort Worth into a high-density data center; no conversion work has started.
3.24 miles Black Mountain: Fort Worth, TX
Black Mountain Power plans a four-building data center campus with an on-site substation on about 430 acres in southeast Fort Worth, next to Forest Hill; the city approved its site plan in August 2026.
5.36 miles HCA: Fort Worth Data Center
HCA Healthcare runs a regional data center for its Texas hospitals in a single-story building in the Overton Centre office park in southwest Fort Worth.
6.46 miles Cogent: Fort Worth
Cogent's Fort Worth data center is a former Sprint long-distance switching center on East Presidio Street, which Cogent offers for sale or wholesale lease.
6.74 miles Lumen Fort Worth 1
Lumen Fort Worth 1 is a Lumen network colocation site at 1601 Jones Street in downtown Fort Worth.
6.86 miles AT&T: Fort Worth Edison
AT&T's Edison building on Houston Street is the main telephone exchange in downtown Fort Worth, a multi-story Southwestern Bell building from 1971 that also hosts AT&T cloud equipment.
6.97 miles LOGIX Fort Worth
LOGIX Fiber Networks ran a small colocation suite in the Oil & Gas Building on West 7th Street in downtown Fort Worth, which it stopped marketing in 2024.
7.11 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
7.14 miles Lumen For Worth 3
Lumen Fort Worth 3 is a Lumen network site in a 1925 office tower at 515 Houston Street in downtown Fort Worth.
7.20 miles Rock Creek Expansion
Rock Creek Expansion covers buildings 2 through 5 of the planned Rock Creek data center campus in southwest Fort Worth.
7.21 miles Lumen Fort Worth 2
Lumen Fort Worth 2 is a Lumen network building at 1101 East 9th Street in Fort Worth, built in 1998 for IXC Communications.
7.24 miles PrimeInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
7.42 miles Rock Creek 1
Rock Creek 1 is the first of five data center buildings planned on land Walton Global holds east of Chisholm Trail Parkway in southwest Fort Worth.
9.71 miles Mapletree: 5000 South Bowen
Mapletree Industrial Trust owns a former Atos data center on South Bowen Road in Arlington, Texas, which has stood empty since Atos's lease ended in 2023.
10.18 miles Tower ProInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
10.19 miles Edged Energy: Ft. Worth DFW02
Edged's DFW02-1 is the first building of its two-building DFW02 campus at I-20 and Chapin School Road in Fort Worth's Veale Ranch area, under construction since 2026.
10.38 miles Prime: DFW04-01
Prime Data Centers planned DFW04-01 as building 1 of three two-story data centers near Aledo Road and Chapin School Road, west of Fort Worth.
10.50 miles Edged Energy: DFW02 Expansion
Edged's DFW02-2 is the second building of its DFW02 campus at I-20 and Chapin School Road in Fort Worth's Veale Ranch area.
10.56 miles Prime: DFW04-02
Prime Data Centers planned DFW04-02 as building 2 of three two-story data centers near Aledo Road and Chapin School Road, west of Fort Worth.
10.59 miles Prime: DFW04-03
Prime Data Centers planned DFW04-03 as building 3 of three two-story data centers near Aledo Road and Chapin School Road, west of Fort Worth.
10.66 miles UT System: Arlington Regional Data Center
The University of Texas System runs its Arlington Regional Data Center on East Loop 820 in east Fort Worth as a shared colocation facility for its campuses.
14.09 miles Provident: North Richland Hills
Provident Data Centers has proposed a two-story data center on the former Santander operations center site on Rufe Snow Drive in North Richland Hills.
14.67 miles BNSF: Fort Worth Data Center
BNSF Railway runs a company data center on its headquarters campus in north Fort Worth.
14.80 miles D.R. Horton: Fort Worth Data Center
D.R. Horton runs a company data center in its division office campus on North Freeway in north Fort Worth.
15.43 miles D.R. Horton: Arlington Data Center
D.R. Horton built its own data center next to its headquarters area in Arlington, Texas, completed in 2022.
15.88 miles Aligned: DFW-03
Aligned's DFW-03 is a two-story data center under construction on Britton Road in east Mansfield, south of Fort Worth.
17.60 miles Verizon: Arlington Data Center
Verizon Business runs a network data center in the former MCI WorldCom building on 113th Street in Arlington's Great Southwest Industrial District.
17.63 miles CyrusOne: DFW7
DFW7 is the first building on CyrusOne's Fort Worth campus on Asphalt Drive, on land bought from energy developer Eolian beside its Chisholm Grid battery plant.
17.72 miles CyrusOne: DFW8
DFW8 is the second building under way on CyrusOne's Fort Worth campus on Asphalt Drive, beside DFW7.
17.87 miles CyrusOne: Fort Worth Expansion
Later phases of CyrusOne's Fort Worth campus on Asphalt Drive, planned with energy developer Eolian beyond the DFW7 and DFW8 buildings.
18.14 miles Coravel: Hicks Field DFW12
Coravel's Hicks Field DFW12 is a planned two-story data center on its hyperscale campus on Hicks Field Road in far north Fort Worth.
18.16 miles Park TwoInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
18.23 miles Coravel: Hicks Field DFW13
Coravel's Hicks Field DFW13 is a planned two-story data center on its hyperscale campus on Hicks Field Road in far north Fort Worth.
18.24 miles RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
18.24 miles Coravel: Hicks Field Expansion
Coravel's Hicks Field Expansion covers the last two of five planned buildings on its hyperscale campus on Hicks Field Road in far north Fort Worth.
18.42 miles Coravel: Hicks Field DFW11
Coravel's Hicks Field DFW11 is the first building of its hyperscale data center campus on Hicks Field Road in far north Fort Worth, under construction for a hyperscale tenant.
18.43 miles MaxInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
18.95 miles PowerHouse: Grand Prairie Campus
The campus will ultimately comprise 14 buildings across four development stages.
20.00 miles Verizon: Euless Switching Center
Verizon Wireless's Euless switching center is a windowless network building on Bear Creek Parkway near DFW Airport, opened in 2021, that also hosts Amazon Web Services equipment.

Operating Company

Operated by: Alcon

Alcon Inc is an eye care company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. It makes surgical equipment and consumables for cataract, retina and refractive surgery, and contact lenses and eye drops for consumers. Its US headquarters campus is on South Freeway in Fort Worth, Texas, where it runs its own data center.

Alcon History:

  • In April 2019, Novartis spun off Alcon as an independent public company.
  • In 2011, Novartis completed its purchase of Alcon.
  • Founded in 1945 in Fort Worth, Texas.
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