Switch: Houston 2

Switch acquired Texas-based Data Foundry, another enterprise colocation provider, for $420 million in an all-cash transaction from the Yokubaitis Family. Data Foundry's Houston 2 site is their largest purpose-built data center and is situated on 18 acres in North Houston.

Power

• Houston 2’s power design is 100% concurrently maintainable.
• Dual underground, concrete-encased utility feeds
• Closed-transition Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS)
• Fault tolerance and concurrent maintainability for single and dual-corded loads
• 1500 kW PowerWare 9395 UPS lineups per power train
• N+1 to 2N redundancy available
• Multiple 2.25 MW Cummins diesel engine-generators
• 40,000 gallons of fuel on site

Cooling

• Houston 2's concurrently maintainable chilled water cooling system is ideal for High Performance Computing (HPC), supporting 50 kW cabinets and blade server environments.
• 550-ton VFD York chillers with fast restart
• N+1 redundancy
• 2800 CFM chilled water Computer Room Air Handlers (CRAHs)
• N+20% redundancy

Location

• Built above the 500-year flood plain
• 12 minutes from George Bush Intercontinental Airport
• A multitude of hotels and restaurants within a 1-mile radius
• Located in an area of dense fiber-optic connectivity
• Independent power grid