AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas
February 13, 2025
Austin
In 2021, Element Critical acquired the building from vXchnge.
In 2017, vXchnge acquired the property from Digital Realty Trust. The site can be expanded to a total of 13 MWs. Digital Realty Trust (DLR) acquired this fully-leased data center facility for $12.5 million in 2012.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 4.38 miles | Verizon: 11501 Domain |
Formerly an XO site
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| 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.
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| 5.40 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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.
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| 5.45 miles | Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset |
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.
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| 5.52 miles | DPO: Texas |
Digital Power Optimization partners with Schneider for data centers at Texas wind farms.
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| 5.82 miles | American Tower: Austin |
In 2020, Communications infrastructure company American Tower launched its Edge data center in Austin, Texas.
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| 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
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| 5.86 miles | Lumen Austin 3 (500 Chicon) |
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| 7.67 miles | DataBank Austin AUS1 |
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| 7.80 miles | Verizon: 2100 HWY 35 |
Former XO Communications site
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 9.39 miles | Tesla: Austin Dojo |
Data center is reportedly on the South Side of the massive Tesla Gigafactory.
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| 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.
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| 9.46 miles | CyrusOne Austin II |
Supports 250 wpsf with the ability to support over 1,000 wpsf
Raised Floor: 48"
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| 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.
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| 9.79 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Amazon operates a data center in the Round Rock area of Austin, Texas.
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| 9.80 miles | LightEdge Austin2 Burleson |
The site was formerly operated by OnRamp before being acquired in July 2018.
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| 9.83 miles | Switch: Smith School Rd |
Switch Inc. reportedly intends to build a 300,000-square-foot (27,870 sqm) data center alongside a new Austin Energy substation.
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| 9.97 miles | Switch: Texas 2 |
2nd building on the former Data Foundry Campus
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| 9.98 miles | Switch: Texas 1 |
Built in 2011, Texas 1 resides on the Data Ranch. The 40-acre campus has plenty of expansion capability. The campus can grow to over 1 million sqft and 100 MW of power.
The first phase of Data Foundry's Texas 2 site was opened in 2018.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 10.16 miles | Lumen Austin 1 (4207 Smith School) | |
| 10.23 miles | Switch: 300 Dell Way |
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 173,895 square feet of gross floor area.
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| 10.46 miles | Sabey Austin |
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.
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| 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.
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| 10.58 miles | Sabey: Austin 1B |
Sabey Data Centers has begun construction on the second building at its Austin, Texas campus.
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| 10.61 miles | Skybox Austin |
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| 15.48 miles | Iron Mountain Hutto |
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| 15.75 miles | Colovore: Hutto, TX |
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.
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| 15.96 miles | EdgeConneX: Austin 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.
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| 16.11 miles | EdgeConneX: AUS03 |
This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
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| 16.29 miles | EdgeConneX: AUS04 |
This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 17.11 miles | Skybox: Hutto PowerCampus |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.22 miles | Skybox: Hutto 2 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.22 miles | Skybox: Hutto 3 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.26 miles | Skybox: Hutto 4 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.31 miles | Skybox: Hutto 5 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.53 miles | Skybox: Hutto 6 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 17.58 miles | Skybox: Hutto 7 |
Skybox Datacenters and Prologis are building a massive 600-megawatt campus near Austin, Texas which will offer up to 4 million square feet of data center space.
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| 18.04 miles | Citigroup: Georgetown |
The Georgetown site was launched in 2008 and is LEED Gold Certified.
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