Sabey Data Centers has completed the first building of SDC Austin, its new data center campus in Round Rock, Texas. The 430,000-square-foot facility broke ground in July 2022.
SDC Austin is poised to maximize data center space while minimizing the construction footprint, ensuring scalability for deployments of all sizes.
Upon full build-out, the facility will provide up to 84 MW of critical power capacity. The project is also engineered to accommodate liquid cooling and high-density computing environments, supporting up to 200 kW per cabinet.
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The completion comes on the heels of the developer’s announcement that The Texas Advanced Computing Center chose Sabey Data Centers as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer, which will be deployed in Round Rock. Horizon is set to be the largest academic supercomputer dedicated to open-scientific research in the National Science Foundation’s portfolio.
Part of a larger campus
The two-building campus is rising on the former site of a Sears call center. The other facility will measure about 105,000 square feet, according to Community Impact.
SDC Austin occupies 40 acres at 1300 Louis Henna Blvd., less than 4 miles from downtown Round Rock. Downtown Austin is 18 miles away, while the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is some 23 miles southwest.
In February 2022, the Round Rock City Council approved an economic development agreement that grants tax incentives to the developer. Under the terms of the agreement, Sabey is required to invest at least $185 million in property enhancements and $5 million in new equipment and business personal property. The company must also create a minimum of 20 primary jobs within a five-year period.
North America saw a 10 percent increase in supply in primary markets in the first half of this year, accounting for about 515 MW, according to a CBRE report. The under-construction pipeline was up by 69 percent year-over-year. Additionally, Austin and San Antonio’s combined underway projects more than quadrupled from a year ago to 463.5 MW.