Switch: Texas 1

4100 Smith School Road

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Built in 2011, was built by Data Foundry and know as "Data Ranch" campus - a 40-acre campus with space for up to 1 million square feet of data center. Features of the Data Ranch include a 100-megawatt capable campus with end-to-end underground power feeds from diverse substations, dual diverse entry points for power, network and water.

The Texas 2 site was opened in 2018.

  • 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus
  • Space for up to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of data center
  • Redundant power, water and fiber feeds
  • Ability to deliver over 100 megawatts of power to the campus
  • Campus independently fed by two separate 400-megawatt substations
  • The property also features feeds from two independent water utility sources, with a 48-inch main source located 12 feet underground, and redundant network carrier entry points.
Site Building SqFt Usable SqFt Power MW
Texas 1 130,000 110,000 24
Texas 2 325,000 165,000 36
Total 455,000 275,000 60

Switch acquired Texas-based Data Foundry, another enterprise colocation provider for $420m in an all-cash transaction from the Yokubaitis Family.

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0.02 miles Switch: Switch: Smith School Bldg 3
Switch Inc. reportedly intends to build a 300,000-square-foot (27,870 sqm) data center alongside a new Austin Energy substation.
0.03 miles Switch: Texas 2
2nd building on the former Data Foundry Campus
0.22 miles Lumen Austin 1 (4207 Smith School)
0.46 miles LightEdge Austin Burleson
The site was formerly operated by OnRamp before being acquired in July 2018.
1.04 miles Lumen Austin 4
1.05 miles LightEdge Austin Montopolis
OnRamp Staffs the site 24/7/365 Power Densities up to 30kW / Rack Outside of 100 year and 500 Year Flood Plains
1.06 miles CyrusOne Austin II
Supports 250 wpsf with the ability to support over 1,000 wpsf Raised Floor: 48"
1.44 miles 7500 Metro Center - Digital Realty
The building has 75,000 gross square feet with a 30-foot clearance height capable of supporting two floors inside the building. The site has diverse underground electrical ductbanks from a nearby substations. The facility offers access to seven fiber optic providers in close proximity to the building
1.54 miles Switch: 7401 E Ben White
Switch acquired Texas-based Data Foundry, another enterprise colocation provider for $420m in an all-cash transaction from the Yokubaitis Family.
1.57 miles 7401 E Ben White - Digital Realty
7401 E. Ben White Blvd. is a three-building portfolio comprised of two single-story data centers and one single-story call center, which are located in southeast Austin.
1.57 miles Data Foundry Austin 1 (ADC)
Operated since 2003. Austin 1 is located on the Southeast side of Austin, on Data Foundry’s Disaster Recovery Campus.
1.57 miles CyrusOne Austin I
Also known as the Austin Met Center. CyrusOne has announced that this facility will close. Customers will be moved to other CyrusOne sites in Austin.
1.74 miles 7620 Metro - Digital Realty
The Digital facility is on 11.28 acres of land and features a 62,000-sq-ft building. The data center is full, with 100% of the space occupied with long-term lease tenants but there is additional land build another 135,000 sq ft facility.
3.04 miles Verizon: 2100 HWY 35
Former XO Communications site
4.30 miles LOGIX Austin (1905 E 6th)
Recently acquired by LOGIX, the Alpheus site is east of Austin's central business district. Located on East 6th Street, it features a multiple carrier Internet backbone, dual backup power supplies
4.34 miles Lumen Austin 3 (500 Chicon)
5.26 miles Flexential Austin
Flexential's Austin site is was previously branded under the ViaWest name.
5.47 miles HP Austin
Building 2 is a 180,000-square-foot that includes two rooms of 25,000 of raised floor. The facility is designed to allow ease of future expansion up to 200,000 square feet of raised floor in a two-level configuration adjacent to the central support core for a total of 600,000 gross square feet.
6.17 miles American Tower: Austin
6.37 miles Tesla: Austin Dojo
Data center is reportedly on the South Side of the massive Tesla Gigafactory.
9.98 miles Element Critical Austin
In 2021, Element Critical acquired the building from vXchnge.
14.01 miles Verizon: 11501 Domain
Formerly an XO site
16.66 miles DataBank Austin AUS1
19.45 miles Prime: Austin, TX
Prime Data Centers is looking to build a $1.3 billion data center campus in Caldwell County, outside of Austin, Texas
19.67 miles Amazon: Round Rock, TX
Amazon is planning to develop a data center in the Round Rock area of Austin, Texas. The site spans across 149 acres along County Road 172 and McNeil Road, north of State Highway 45.

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Switch, the technology infrastructure corporation headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada is built on the intelligent and sustainable growth of the internet. Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy has developed more than 500 issued and pending patent claims covering data center designs that have manifested into the company’s world-renowned data centers.

Switch has PRIME campuses located in Las Vegas and Tahoe Reno, Nevada; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Atlanta, Georgia.

24 Facilities Owned
6 Markets Served
471.0 Megawatts
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