DataBank Red Oak Campus Under construction
8-building campus (400MW substation, up to 300MW critical IT); first 3 buildings already leased, $2.0B construction financing secured April 2026.
Key facts
- Operator
- DataBank
- Size
- 300 MW
- Location
- Red Oak (Ellis County), Texas
- Stage today
- Under construction
What to do next
Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.
What has happened so far (11 events)
- 2024-06-13filing
DataBank registered its first Red Oak building, DFW9 (425,170 sq ft, two-story data center with office space, $256M estimated cost), with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TABS project TABS2024020821). · source - 2024-09-10announcement
DataBank announced development of a 480MW, 292-acre, eight-building data center campus in Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas (its third new-campus announcement in 12 months), with Phase 1 covering four buildings and a 400MW Oncor substation delivering 240MW of critical IT power; initial ready-for-service targeted for Q2 2026. · source - 2024-11-05filing
DataBank filed plans for a second Red Oak building, DFW10 ($256M, 425,000+ sq ft), with construction slated to begin February 2025 and complete by mid-2028; report described it as a $256M addition to the growing Red Oak campus. · source - 2024-11-05filing
Dallas Express reported DataBank's $265M expansion of the Red Oak campus (second facility), a 425,000 sq ft two-story building designed by JHET Architects, with construction beginning February 2025 and completion expected July 2028; full build-out envisions eight buildings totaling 3.4M+ sq ft. · source - 2025-12-01construction
Construction work on DFW11 at the Red Oak campus began (per reported December 2025–January 2028 build schedule), part of the campus's staggered build-out following DFW9 and DFW10. · source - 2026-04-21financing
DataBank closed a $2.0 billion construction loan — its largest financing to date, led by MUFG Bank under DataBank's Green Financing Framework — to fund the first three Red Oak buildings (DFW9, DFW10, DFW11: 600,000 sq ft, 180MW), all fully leased to an AI/cloud tenant (reported to be Oracle); the financing was said to accelerate delivery by about 18 months. · source - 2026-05-11hearing
Red Oak Planning & Zoning Commission and City Council held a separate, contentious public hearing on an unrelated 830-acre Compass Datacenters project elsewhere in Red Oak; over 150 residents attended amid a 1,600-signature opposition petition citing noise, water, traffic and power-grid concerns (noted here for context but distinct from DataBank's Stainback Road campus). · source - 2026-06-01construction
Reporting described DataBank's Red Oak campus in active construction, with initial concrete pours underway and electrical systems installation beginning; residents voiced mixed reactions including concerns about noise and water use, while DataBank held public meetings and appointed a community liaison. · source - 2026-06-16financing
DataBank closed $1.45 billion in new financing across two transactions: an $800M corporate revolving credit facility and a $650M upsize (including DataBank's first private-placement notes) of the Red Oak construction loan to fund a fourth building (60MW additional IT capacity), bringing total Red Oak campus financing to $2.65 billion. · source - 2026-08-01construction
Dallas Morning News reported DFW9 was expected to come online in August 2026, with DFW10 (interior work, ~$301M, completion January 2027) and DFW11 (~$315M, completion March 2027) following on a staggered schedule; residents cited concerns about scale, infrastructure strain, a 10-year tax-abatement delay on community benefits, and limited local job creation relative to project size. · source - 2026-08-11moratorium
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a statewide audit of all data centers connecting to the ERCOT grid, effectively pausing new interconnections pending review — a state-level action affecting all Texas data center projects, including those on DataBank's Red Oak campus. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Red Oak (Ellis County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Red Oak (Ellis County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Recent news
8 stories tracked since 2026-05-11 across 7 outlets. 4× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 2× The dispute has escalated into litigation. Most recent: “Gubernatorial independent Jenn Mack speaks against data centers in Red Oak” (Waxahachie Sun, 2026-10-01).
- Gubernatorial independent Jenn Mack speaks against data centers in Red Oak
- This Red Oak program is training workers for North Texas data centers
- RECAP: Gina Hinojosa Connects with Red Oak Residents Furious About Data Centers
- Red Oak resident files lawsuit against city for data center development
- Red Oak residents sue city, officials to stop data center project
- Red Oak residents renew opposition as Texas reviews data center boom
- Red Oak approves 830 acres rezoned for latest data center despite opposition
- Red Oak neighbors fight proposed data center over health concerns
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 8 headlines archived.
Around here
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Texas
- Aligned Data Centers Hale County — Hale County Under construction
- Amazon Floydada campus — Floydada (Floyd County) In review
- Amazon Fort Stockton campus — Fort Stockton (Pecos County) Under construction
- BCG Cedar Creek Campus — Cedar Creek (Bastrop County) Awaiting decision
- Black Mountain Energy Fort Worth — Fort Worth Approved
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “DataBank Red Oak Campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/databank-red-oak-tx, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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