Element Critical Austin

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Element Critical Austin

Year Built: 2007

Lot Size: 11 acres

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Element Critical Austin is a carrier-neutral colocation data center on North Interstate 35 in north Austin, Texas.

Ownership history

2012: Digital Realty Trust acquired the fully leased facility for $12.5 million.
2017: vXchnge acquired the property from Digital Realty.
2021: Element Critical acquired the building from vXchnge.

Facility

Seven layers of physical security from the gate to the cage, with biometric readers at the entrance, the data hall, and the cage, plus an anti-tailgating device
Raised floor, with hot- or cold-aisle containment for high-density deployments
Standard cabinets 24 in wide, 41 in deep, 42U, stocked on site
Secure cages with fenced underfloor, enclosed cage roofs, and biometric cage locks
Power distribution at 208V
Concurrently maintainable design with N+1 redundancy and a 100% power availability guarantee for redundant installations
Staff, remote hands, and migration services on site 24x7
Roof rights access
SSAE 18 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, HIPAA, and PCI compliance

Connectivity

Meet-me room with fiber, Ethernet, and DAC runs to customer cages
Element Critical internet service, with cross-connects turned up in a day
Megaport on-ramp to public cloud providers

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Sites within 15 miles of Element Critical Austin

Distance	Site	About
4.38 miles	Verizon: 11501 Domain	Formerly an XO site
4.41 miles	University of Texas: Austin	The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) on the Austin campus hosts a 26,000 sq ft Tier III data center.
5.40 miles	CoreWeave: Austin, TX	CoreWeave has secured an 8-year lease agreement with Core Scientific for a 118,000 square feet of compute space at 3301 Hibbetts Road in Austin, Texas.
5.45 miles	Core Scientific: Austin, TX	In 2024, Core Scientific acquired this facility in Austin, Texas. The site was formerly used to house Hewlett Packard's hosting business, including high-performance computing.
5.82 miles	American Tower: Austin	In 2020, Communications infrastructure company American Tower launched its Edge data center in Austin, Texas.
5.85 miles	LOGIX Austin (1905 E 6th)	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
5.86 miles	Lumen Austin 3 (500 Chicon)
7.67 miles	DataBank Austin AUS1
7.80 miles	Verizon: 2100 HWY 35	Former XO Communications site
8.73 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.
8.75 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.
8.79 miles	Switch: Austin 1 (ADC)	Operated since 2003. Austin 1 is located on the Southeast side of Austin, on Data Foundry’s Disaster Recovery Campus.
8.83 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.
8.93 miles	LightEdge Austin1 Montopolis	OnRamp Staffs the site 24/7/365 Power Densities up to 30kW / Rack Outside of 100 year and 500 Year Flood Plains
8.93 miles	Lumen Austin 4
8.99 miles	Digital Realty: AUS11	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
9.39 miles	Tesla: Austin Dojo	Data center is reportedly on the South Side of the massive Tesla Gigafactory.
9.40 miles	CyrusOne: Austin III	CyrusOne's AUS3 data center is projected to be the company's largest facility in Austin, spanning 172,000 total square feet, which includes 120,000 square feet of colocation space (CSF) and over 25,000 square feet of Class A office space.
9.46 miles	CyrusOne Austin II	Supports 250 wpsf with the ability to support over 1,000 wpsf Raised Floor: 48"
9.47 miles	DataCanopy: Austin, TX	Data Canopy's Austin, TX facility delivers exceptional connectivity and 100% power uptime within a state-of-the-art environment secured by industry-leading features.
9.55 miles	SB Energy: Cosmos Tech Campus	The Cosmos Technology Campus is a SoftBank/SB Energy-backed redevelopment of the former 3M campus in Northwest Austin, Texas.
9.79 miles	HubInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
9.80 miles	LightEdge Austin2 Burleson	The site was formerly operated by OnRamp before being acquired in July 2018.
9.83 miles	Switch: Texas 3	Texas 3 (AUS03) is Switch's planned third data center on the Data Ranch campus in southeast Austin, a building of about 300,000 sq ft on the campus's vacant eastern lots next to a planned Austin Energy substation.
9.95 miles	Switch: Texas 2	Texas 2 is the second building on Switch's Data Ranch campus in southeast Austin. Data Foundry opened its first phase in 2018, and Switch bought it in 2021.
10.00 miles	Switch: Texas 1	Texas 1 is the first building on Switch's Data Ranch campus in southeast Austin. Data Foundry built the single-story, 130,000 sq ft data center in 2010-2011 with three data halls, and Switch bought it in 2021.
10.12 miles	Switch Austin "The Rock"	First announced in 2021, Switch's 'The Rock' data center in Texas will span 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sqm), and was first approved by the local council in July 2021. The campus is on land adjacent to a number of Dell-owned facilities in Round Rock, Texas.
10.15 miles	Switch: Round Rock East Campus	Switch is constructing a new data center facility in Rock Round, Texas, located outside of Austin. The site spans 32.48 acres and is situated north of Louis Henna Boulevard and east of Greenlawn Boulevard in the Rock Round area.
10.16 miles	Lumen Austin 1 (4207 Smith School)
10.23 miles	Switch: AUS05 EVO DC	Switch is building another data center in Round Rock on a plot east of South Mays Street and north of Dell Way. The data center will span 72,600 sq ft of gross floor area.
10.46 miles	Sabey Austin 1A	Sabey Austin is Sabey Data Centers' new purpose-built data center campus located at 1300 Louis Henna Blvd. The two-building campus, when complete, will offer 430,000 square feet of reliable colocation.
10.56 miles	Skybox: Austin 2	Skybox and Prologis have developed a state-of-the-art data center at 2515 South Kenney Fort Boulevard in Pflugerville, representing a $548 million investment.
10.58 miles	Sabey: Austin 1B	Sabey Data Centers has begun construction on the second building at its Austin, Texas campus.
10.61 miles	Skybox: Austin 1
14.14 miles	Skybox: Round Rock, TX	The Round Rock City Council has unanimously approved a rezoning request from Skybox Datacenters to develop a 30-acre facility in the Austin, Texas area.
15.48 miles	Iron Mountain Hutto
15.75 miles	Colovore: Hutto AUS01	Colovore is developing a liquid-cooled data center outside Austin, Texas, featuring a 180,000-square-foot (16,720-square-meter) data center and a 13,000-square-foot office complex.
15.96 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS01	Located in the tech-forward Cedar Creek area of Bastrop County, EdgeConneX AUS01 is the high-performance anchor of a massive new data center campus.
16.11 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS03	This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
16.16 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS11	EdgeConneX is developing two new 730,000 sq ft data centers, EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, in Bastrop County, Texas.
16.29 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS04	This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
16.34 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS02	The upcoming AUS02 facility is designed as a massive two-story structure, set to encompass 578,000 square feet (approximately 54,000 square meters) of high-density data center space.
16.36 miles	EdgeConneX: AUS12	EdgeConneX is developing two new 730,000 sq ft data centers, EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, in Bastrop County, Texas.
16.74 miles	Blueprint: Georgetown DC	US data center firm Blueprint Data Centers is investing $160 million to develop a 10-acre data center in Georgetown.
16.78 miles	Global PointInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
16.86 miles	Zydeco Development: Hutto, Texas	Following the formal withdrawal of its rezoning application, Zydeco Development Corporation has halted plans for its proposed data center in Hutto, Texas.
17.11 miles	Skybox: Hutto 1	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
17.22 miles	Skybox: Hutto 2	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
17.26 miles	Skybox: Hutto 3	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
17.31 miles	Skybox: Hutto 4	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
17.53 miles	Skybox: Hutto 5	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
17.58 miles	Skybox: Hutto 6	Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
18.04 miles	Citigroup: Georgetown	The Georgetown site was launched in 2008 and is LEED Gold Certified.
19.21 miles	Park MaxInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us

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Computer Room Air Conditioning Units line the Wall of the Colocation Room

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Electrical Switch Room

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Exterior Front of the building

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Element Critical owns and operates data centers in Sunnyvale, California, and Northern Virginia. Central Colo was rebranded to Element Critical in 2017.

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