Flexential has purchased 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas, to develop its fourth and largest data center facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with construction expected to begin in early 2027 and first customer availability targeted for late 2028.

A Fourth Dallas Facility in the World's Top Data Center Market

The Denver-based data center provider announced the land acquisition on July 28, 2026, describing the planned campus as a purpose-built, high-density development in Talty, located southeast of the DFW metro.

The decision to expand in the region comes as Cushman & Wakefield ranked Dallas the world's top data center market for development and investment conditions, drawing on more than 20 factors including power and land availability and construction activity.

Market data from CBRE underpins the urgency of the move. DFW's total inventory had grown 43.7% year-over-year to 1,249.4 MW at the end of March, while vacancy fell to an all-time low of 1.8%. Of the 716.7 MW under construction in the market, 88% was already preleased, illustrating how tightly constrained available capacity has become.

Ryan Mallory, CEO of Flexential, cited that supply-demand imbalance directly.

"Dallas has the strongest combination of demand, infrastructure, and growth potential of any data center market in the country, and the development pipeline can't keep pace," Mallory said. "Companies are planning two and three years out and still struggle to secure the infrastructure they need."

Phase 1 Scale and Expansion Potential

The first phase of development will consist of a 375,000-square-foot building with secured power to support 36 megawatts of capacity for wholesale and multi-tenant colocation workloads, including enterprise and high-density deployments.

The 110-acre site is designed to accommodate three 36 MW data center buildings across future phases, bringing the total potential campus capacity to 108 MW. Flexential's three existing Dallas-area data centers, located downtown, in Plano, and in Richardson, collectively encompass more than 459,000 square feet and 28.4 MW of capacity.

The Kaufman County campus, even at Phase 1 alone, is designed to nearly match that combined existing footprint in power terms and will exceed it significantly if all three phases are built out.

Matt Baumann, Vice President of Real Estate at Flexential, said the scale of the site was intentional.

"Customer requirements in Dallas continue to evolve and expand, so we needed to find a site where we could support them not only today but eight to 10 years from now," Baumann said.

"The Kaufman County site gives us the opportunity to build from the ground up at the density our customers need, on a parcel with confirmed utility power and fiber access, in a market where that combination is getting harder and harder to find."

Sustainability Design Targets Zero Water Usage

The Talty facility will incorporate environmentally responsible, high-efficiency power systems and closed-loop cooling architecture aimed at reducing energy consumption per megawatt of IT load. Flexential has set a target water usage effectiveness of zero for the campus, which the company describes as preserving local resources and building on its existing approach to sustainable data center design.

Utility power will reach the site through a phased ramp-up, a measure Flexential says is intended to avoid potential strain on the local grid.

The sustainability commitments come shortly after Flexential released its 2025 ESG Report, which documents continued investment in energy efficiency, water conservation, and responsible governance practices, including 7.1 GWh in energy savings cited in related announcements from the company.

Services and Connectivity

The campus will deliver the full suite of services available through Flexential's FlexAnywhere Platform, including colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, and professional services.

Customers at the Talty site will have access to the company's nationwide private network backbone, which Flexential describes as exceeding 100 Gbps, enabling connections to major public cloud providers, carriers, and enterprise environments.

The connectivity architecture is designed to extend what Flexential describes as low-latency workload placement options from its existing Dallas presence into the new high-density environment.

Earlier in July 2026, the company also announced the deployment of 400 Gbps network infrastructure to support next-generation connectivity services, including native 100 Gbps access for artificial intelligence, cloud, and high-throughput workloads.

Part of a Broader National Land Acquisition Strategy

Kaufman County is the latest in a series of land purchases that Flexential says have expanded its owned data center footprint across the United States over the past year.

Other recent acquisitions include sites in Parker, Colorado, for a Denver-Parker facility; Hillsboro, Oregon, for Portland-Hillsboro 6; and Norcross, Georgia, for Atlanta-Norcross 2.

Across its entire portfolio, Flexential operates more than 40 data centers with more than 380 MW of capacity either online or under development across 18 U.S. markets.

The Kaufman County campus, if fully built out to all three phases, would represent a substantial addition to that footprint and would become the company's single largest facility in the Dallas region by a significant margin.