Prineville Data Center
Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects · Prineville, Oregon, United States · 2011
Projects / Built project
Fort Worth Data Center
A 500,000-square-foot hyperscale facility combines phased delivery, outside-air cooling and renewable power across the first two data halls of a larger Texas campus.
- Area
- 500,000 sq ft
- Type
- Hyperscale data centre
- Completion
- 2018
- IT power
- 68 MW across two data halls
- Water efficiency
- 80% more efficient than the source site's average data-centre benchmark
- Energy
- Served by 100% renewable power, including a 200 MW wind farm
- Recognition
- AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award, 2020
The story
The story behind the work.
The Fort Worth facility contains the first two of five planned data halls and one of three administration buildings on its wider campus. Each hall provides 34 MW of IT power, and phased turnover brought the first capacity online less than two years after work began.
A penthouse arrangement uses outside air instead of conventional energy-intensive air conditioning, while the building is reported as 80% more water-efficient than an average data centre. Perforated facade panels shade the administration spaces, add privacy and encode messages using an inverse punch-card pattern.
Credits
- Mission-critical design practice, part of Woolpert
- Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects
The practice