(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dallas-based Capstar Commercial Real Estate Services is investing millions of dollars to redevelop a former telecommunications equipment plant in Mesquite, Dallas into what it says will be the largest data center in the country, according to a report by the Dallas News.
The more than 700,000 square foot facility was most recently home to Western Electric Co., which occupied the facility space for the past 40 years.
The company has already relocated most of its employees from the facility to other locations around the world, and will soon vacate the facility entirely.
With the operation now being phased out, Capstar purchased the building with plans to redevelop the building into a data center for multiple tenants, which it plans to market to companies across the country.
Already served by telecommunications networks, the 90-acre site has its own power substation, and utility company Oncor will install a second set of electricity transmission lines to the site.
Set for completion in 2010, the building will have a power supply of 100 million watts.
Capstar president Bret Bunnett says the building will be one of five in the nation that will be of this size.
The project is in partnership with San Francisco-based Cambay Group, with the architecture leadership of RTKL.
The data center project also received economic incentives from the local government.
This marks the second major data center in the Dallas area announced this week.
Network equipment provider Cisco Systems is investing $184 million in building a new 140,000-square-foot data center in Allen, a Northen suburb of Dallas.
