DATABANK“ Having the ability to be flexible and pivot quickly depending on client need and without drastically affecting timelines or cost, is critical in terms of how we deploy,” he adds.“ Our Universal Data Hall Design lets us serve a broad range of customers well and with complete flexibility, rather than having to dial in on one area. It’ s fundamental to our strategic growth.”
Growth and campus-based scale The pace of DataBank’ s growth illustrates the sector’ s trajectory.“ I started off in 2020 and delivering 20MW in a year was massive, but the scale of the business has grown enormously,” says Tony.“ My budgets have doubled year over year since I’ ve started and my team has grown significantly along with all the other cross-functional teams.”
DataBank began with smaller networkfocused sites like DFW1 in downtown Dallas, a 7MW facility. Growth accelerated into 20MW and 40MW projects before reaching Red Oak, Texas, now the company’ s largest project at 480MW across a 300-acre campus.
Atlanta became a focal point about a year ago when the company turned over ATL4, a 40MW site, then expanded by acquiring another 87 acres for an additional 120MW of critical IT capacity. Where DataBank once built speculatively in small tranches of two, four, eight or 10 megawatts, the approach has shifted. For Atlanta’ s ATL5 and ATL6 facilities, the company is building the full 120 megawatts at once.
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