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DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas)

DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

292 acres, Red Oak (Ellis County), 21 miles south of Dallas — up to eight 2-story buildings, 3.4M gross sq ft; 400MW Oncor substation; first Ready-for-Service Q2 2026; $2B construction loan (Apr 2026). ONE OF THREE distinct Red Oak campuses (Google and Compass have separate sites).

Capacity
480 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

66 /100
66/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

80 /100
80/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 DataBank Red Oak Campus (South Dallas) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Oncor
Utility Provider
DataBank
Developer

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. DataBank · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.databank.com/resources/blogs/building-the-future-inside-databanks-red-oak-campus-construction/

  2. DataBank · backs: status

    https://www.databank.com/resources/press-releases/databank-announces-development-of-480mw-data-center-campus-in-south-dallas/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. DataBank

  2. DataBank