DALLAS—Data centers continue to sprout up throughout the metro. Not to be outdone is T5 Data Centers, with another data center, T5@Dallas III opening on its Plano data center campus.

The new greenfield purpose-built data center is tenant ready and offers the same construction as the balance of the T5@Dallas campus, including its own dedicated T5 facilities management team. The campus is located in Plano's Legacy Business Park.

The facility is a LEED Silver-certified concurrently maintainable data center with 94,400 square feet of available data hall space and 10.75 megawatts of critical power. T5@Dallas III features a chilled water plant for a low annualized power usage effectiveness, and both N+1 and 2N multiple-entry point configurations for guaranteed uptime.

The original T5@Dallas facility is a 311,000-square-foot/21 megawatt building with four isolated data centers under one roof. T5@Dallas is one of six T5 data centers nationwide to receive the Uptime Institute's Management and Operations Stamp of Approval. This assessment evaluates every aspect of data center operations including planning, coordination, management, staffing and organization, training, operating conditions and maintenance.

“Dallas is our most active data center market so it only made sense to bolster our T5@Dallas campus with an additional enterprise grade facility,” said Aaron Wangenheim, chief operating officer for T5 Data Centers. “Our new T5@Dallas III data center is a smaller version of the adjoining T5@Dallas I data center with the same robust construction, design redundancy, and physical, electrical and mechanical infrastructure. Dallas is a growing market for Fortune 500 companies and we want all of our tenants to be confident that when they sign with T5 Data Centers, they get a state-of-the-art facility with top-tier support.”

The building itself is designed to withstand winds in excess of 221 mph (EF-5 tornado equivalent), and there are multiple redundant power feeds from two local substations. In addition, the T5@Dallas III facility can take advantage of the multiple carriers and fiber connections already serving the T5@Dallas data center campus.

“Dallas is currently the second-largest data center market after Chicago. Most companies have a three-data center strategy, with East Coast, West Coast and central locations so Dallas fits well in that scenario,” Wangenheim tells GlobeSt.com. “It has a combination of factors, including a low cost of power (the overall cost structure is lower because Texas is on its own grid), good incentives, availability of land, fiber connectivity, good infrastructure, overall risk avoidance even with tornadoes and a great talent base. It ticks a lot of boxes. Plus, the quick development cycle in Dallas means a normal 18-month cycle is cut in half. Most data centers can't wait more than a year for permitting, design and construction.”

A national data center owner and operator, T5 Data Centers, delivers customizable scalable data centers that provide an always-on computing environment for mission-critical business applications. T5 currently has facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Portland, Charlotte, Chicago, New York City and Colorado. All of T5's data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring redundant/reliable power and telecommunications with 24-hour staff.

DALLAS—Data centers continue to sprout up throughout the metro. Not to be outdone is T5 Data Centers, with another data center, T5@Dallas III opening on its Plano data center campus.

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