Company upgrading site in $9 million project
US telecoms firm T-Mobile is upgrading one of its data centers in Texas to host 5G equipment.
A filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) shows the company has applied to remodel its McAllen data center at 1400 E. Upas Avenue in Hidalgo County, close to the border with Mexico.
The $9.5 million project will see the company remodel an existing telecom equipment space to house new 5G cabinets in a 14,800 sq ft (1,375 sqm) building, alongside the replacement of the existing roof system.
The project is set to run from August 2025 to August 2026. FS&L Architects is the project’s listed design firm.
The site previously underwent a $7m upgrade in 2021, when T-Mobile was set to install new racks in part of the building previously used as a warehouse. That upgrade included new switchgear and two new generators installed.
Some online reports suggest the site was previously owned and operated by Sprint.
T-Mobile acquired Sprint for $26 billion in 2018, closing the deal in 2020. Since then, a number of vacant or soon-to-be vacant former Sprint data centers occupied by T-Mobile have come onto the market over the last year or so.
Small facilities in Texas, Florida, Iowa, Tennessee, and Maryland have been listed for sale or lease - many stating that T-Mobile was exiting the sites due to already having data centers in the area.
Separately, T-Mobile sold its Wireline business to Cogent Communications for just $1 in September 2022. Much of the business sold to Cogent was Sprint‘s legacy US long-haul fiber network, with Cogent converting dozens of Sprint switch sites into colocation facilities.
