Flexential is building a 108 MW data center campus in Kaufman County, Texas, seizing opportunity as Dallas emerges as th

Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, has purchased 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, to construct its fourth and largest facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, which has recently emerged as the world's most attractive data center market amid record-low vacancy and surging demand.

The planned 375,000-square-foot Phase 1 development, located southeast of the DFW metro in Talty, has secured power to support 36 MW of capacity for wholesale and multi-tenant colocation workloads, including enterprise and high-density deployments. Site work is expected to begin in early 2027, with first customer availability in late 2028. The 110-acre campus has the potential to support three 36 MW data center buildings, for a total footprint of 108 MW, as additional phases are developed.

Cushman & Wakefield ranked Dallas the world's top data center market for development and investment conditions based on more than 20 factors, including power and land availability and construction activity. DFW's inventory had grown 43.7 percent year-over-year to 1,249.4 MW at the end of March, according to CBRE. Vacancy fell to an all-time low of 1.8 percent, and 88 percent of the 716.7 MW under construction was already preleased.

Ryan Mallory, CEO of Flexential, stated: "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. 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."

The Talty facility will incorporate environmentally responsible, high-efficiency power systems and closed-loop cooling architecture to reduce energy consumption per megawatt of IT load. It will be designed with a target water usage effectiveness of zero, preserving local resources and building on Flexential's proven approach to efficient, sustainable data center design. Utility power will reach the site through a phased ramp-up to avoid potential strain on the local grid.

The data center campus will deliver colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, and professional services through the FlexAnywhere Platform. Customers will be able to connect to Flexential's nationwide private network backbone and reach major public cloud providers, carriers, and enterprise environments, extending the low-latency connectivity and workload placement options that define the company's Dallas presence into a purpose-built, high-density environment.

Flexential's three existing data centers in the Dallas area, one downtown, one in Plano, and one in Richardson, encompass more than 459,000 square feet and 28.4 MW. Matt Baumann, Vice President of Real Estate at Flexential, remarked: "Customer requirements in Dallas continue to evolve and expand, so we needed to find a site where we could support them not only today but eight to ten years from now. The Kaufman County site gives us the opportunity to build from the ground up at the density our customers need, on a parcel with confirmed utility power and fiber access, in a market where that combination is getting harder and harder to find."

Kaufman County joins a series of land acquisitions that have expanded Flexential's owned footprint across the country over the past year, including new developments in Parker, Colorado, Hillsboro, Oregon, and Norcross, Georgia. The company operates more than 40 data centers with more than 380 MW of capacity online or under development across 18 U.S. markets.