Flexential acquires 110 acres in Texas for 108MW data center campus

Flexential has acquired land in Texas for a new data center development, marking its fourth and largest facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The company this week announced the purchase of 110 acres in Talty, Kaufman County, located outside of Dallas.

The first phase of the development will involve constructing a 375,000 sq ft (34,840 sqm) facility, delivering 36MW of data center capacity. This initial building will be designed to support wholesale and multi-tenant colocation workloads, and it will be capable of hosting high-density configurations with up to 150kW per rack. To improve efficiency, the site will implement a closed-loop cooling system to reduce water consumption.

Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2027, with the first phase expected to come online by late 2028. At full build-out, the site has the potential to host three 36MW buildings, bringing the total campus capacity to 108MW.

"Dallas has the strongest combination of demand, infrastructure, and growth potential of any data center market in the country, and the development pipeline can't keep pace," said Ryan Mallory, CEO of Flexential. "Companies are planning two and three years out and still struggle to secure the infrastructure they need. This property will let us deliver large-scale capacity designed around our customers' requirements instead of asking them to adapt to whatever happens to be available."

Across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Flexential already operates facilities in downtown Dallas, Plano, and Richardson, which currently provide a combined 28.4MW of capacity across 459,000 sq ft (42,642 sqm). The company was formed in 2017 after investment firm GI Partners merged data center operators Peak 10 and ViaWest. Today, Flexential manages more than 40 data centers with over 360MW of capacity online or in development across 18 markets in the US, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Denver, Las Vegas, Louisville, Minneapolis, Nashville, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, and Tampa.