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Skybox Datacenters LLC has started construction on the first piece of its massive 1-million-square-foot data center campus in Lancaster.
The Dallas-based company confirmed it began work on the first building in its PowerCampus Dallas site at the beginning of the month. Work on the 270,900-square-foot facility is estimated to cost about $85 million, according to planning documents filed with the state, and delivery is anticipated in early 2026. Corgan Associates will serve as the design firm.
PowerCampus Dallas will have a total of three buildings and house a total of approximately 120 employees at full build out. The large campus is a partnership with Dallas developer Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management and will offer up to 300 megawatts of power.
PowerCampus Dallas isn’t the only massive data center development coming to Lancaster. Stack Infrastructure Inc is developing six data centers totaling 1.5 million square feet in Lancaster. Delivery is scheduled for mid-2026.
Other developments coming to North Texas include PowerHouse Data Centers building a three-building campus in Irving, Prime Data Centers' three-center site near Fort Worth and an expansion of NTT Data’s Garland campus.
Dallas-Fort Worth continues to be an attractive market for data center development. The area absorbed a record 386 megawatts of power last year, and data center vacancy hit a low of 3.73%, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report.
