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Short Code: Texas 1
Year Built: 2013
Lot Size: 40 acres
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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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0.03 miles Switch: Texas 2
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0.93 miles CyrusOne: Austin III
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1.03 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.
1.04 miles Lumen Austin 4
1.05 miles LightEdge Austin1 Montopolis
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1.06 miles CyrusOne Austin II
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1.44 miles Digital Realty: AUS11
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1.55 miles Switch: Austin 1 (ADC)
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1.57 miles 7401 E Ben White - Digital Realty
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1.64 miles CyrusOne Austin I
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1.74 miles 7620 Metro - Digital Realty
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3.04 miles Verizon: 2100 HWY 35
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4.30 miles LOGIX Austin (1905 E 6th)
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5.57 miles Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset
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5.63 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
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6.35 miles University of Texas: Austin
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9.79 miles EdgeConneX: Austin AUS01
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9.98 miles Element Critical Austin
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10.37 miles EdgeConneX: AUS04
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19.36 miles Prime: Austin 3
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19.74 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
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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.

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