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3000 Skyline Dallas Data Center On Schedule for 2010 Launch

June 30, 2009 by Jeff Shepard

3000 Skyline Dallas, a 770,000-square-foot data center development, is on schedule for a launch of phase one in the first quarter of 2010. Located in the City of Mesquite, Texas, nine miles from the Dallas CBD, the facility boasts its own on-site substation that will feature 100 million watts of power provided by Oncor Electric Delivery Company.

The facility is a development of Dallas-based CAPSTAR Commercial Real Estate Services and The Cambay Group, based in Walnut Creek, California.

Interestingly, the building’s history reflects changes in the power electronics landscape, since it was originally built by Western Electric in 1970, and was at one time the largest power supply manufacturing facility in North America. The most recent users of the facilities were Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Tyco Power Systems, and Lineage Power Systems.

When completed, 3000 Skyline Dallas is projected to be one of the country’s five most powerful data centers, providing sufficient electrical power for any configuration today and for years to come, according to John Patterson, a CAPSTAR principal. The initial installation will provide 40 million watts of power.

The LEED-designed facility, divisible into four quadrants of 20 million volt amps each, will provide robust TIA-942 design standards for Tier III data centers. Each quadrant is equipped with separate internal entrance for individual user security, individual electrical distribution with redundant feeder circuits and a new FM I-90 roof. Scalable data center spaces are divisible from 45,000 square feet to 770,000 square feet.

"At the stage of development that we’re in, every detail is important," said Bret Bunnett, CAPSTAR president. "But the most crucial element is the electric power provider, and we are very pleased with the cooperation and leadership we are experiencing with Oncor. They have been reassuring and thoroughly professional. We know that they’ll deliver what we require and more."