DALLAS--RagingWire Data Centers, an NTT Communications group company, has purchased 42 acres in Garland and plans to build a 1 million-square-foot, 80- megawatt data center campus. 

Construction will begin immediately.  Leasing of wholesale build-to-suit vaults, custom data center buildings, and retail colocation cages and racks is expected to commence by September 2016.

“RagingWire and NTT do business on a large scale, in a first-class way, and I expect this development to be a game-changer for North Texas,” said Bo Bond, managing director/regional director at JLL.

The parcel of land is near other primary data center locations in Richardson, Plano and Carrollton.  The city of Garland and Garland Power & Light have been particularly supportive of RagingWire's expansion, providing planning assistance, economic development incentives and expert collaboration, a rep for JLL says.

RagingWire has nearly 1 million square feet of data center space providing 80 megawatts of critical IT power across its campuses in Northern California and Ashburn, VA. The company has been growing 25 percent per year, twice the industry average, and in 2014 became part of the NTT Communications family of companies. The new data center in North Texas will enable RagingWire to deliver seamless colocation solutions across the Unites States and as part of NTT Communications group's 12 data centers in the U.S. and 140 data centers around the world under the “Nexcenter” brand.

“We did a thorough evaluation and are confident that the Dallas-Fort Worth data center market is the best place for RagingWire to open its new data center,” says Doug Adams, senior vice president and chief revenue officer of RagingWire. “With our site across the street from Richardson and just four miles from the Digital Realty campus, we are an ideal location for businesses requiring a data center footprint in the middle of the United States.”