Dallas firm DataBank is adding to its planned 292-acre data center campus in Ellis County.
The company plans to build its second data center, Databank Red Oak-DFW10, along Stainback Road in Red Oak, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
DataBank will build a more than 425,000-square-foot facility that will house a two-story data center and an office. Work is expected to begin in February 2025, and estimated construction costs are $256 million. The project will be completed in July 2028.
Dallas-based JHET Architects was listed as the design firm for the project.
A DataBank representative confirmed that the building will be part of its 480MW data center campus south of Dallas.
The Red Oak campus will hold up to eight two-story data centers that could total 3.4 million square feet at completion. Phase one of the project will include four buildings, the company announced in September.
Databank filed plans with the state for the campus’ first building in June.
The latest filing comes weeks after the Dallas data center operator announced it secured $2 billion in funding from investors globally. The largest sum was $1.5 billion from an Australian investment fund.
Red Oak, south of Dallas along I-35, has become a data center hotspot with companies like Google and Compass Datacenters working on major projects.
Dallas-Fort Worth has North America’s second-largest data center market with 591 megawatts of data center space. Data center space under construction in D-FW hit a record high during the first half of 2024, according to CBRE’s latest North American Data Center Trend Report.
