Dallas data center market

Power availability in Dallas (Dallas-Fort Worth): DCPI verdict CAUTION, composite score 48.2 of 100, as of 2026-10-20. Source: DC Hub.

Data Center Market Deep-Dive · 360 words · generated 2026-10-20 from live DC Hub data · DCPI live as of 2026-10-20

Colocation lease rates in Dallas

Broker lease rates (CBRE/JLL): available on paid plans. Asking base rent per kW of critical IT capacity. Electricity is normally billed separately (metered pass-through), plus cross-connects and one-time fees. Signed deals, term and size change the number. Source: CBRE North America Data Center Trends H1 2026 (250+ kW): Dallas-Ft. Worth (link)

Dallas hosts tracked facilities totaling 7,067 MW across operational, under-construction, and planned assets, positioning it as a significant regional hub constrained by mixed signals on power availability and infrastructure maturity. DataBank leads with facilities, followed by Digital Realty (16), Equinix (15), and Flexential (11), indicating a moderately fragmented operator base without dominant single-player control. The top four operators collectively account for facilities, suggesting room for both consolidation and new entrants. Recent activity includes Flexential's acquisition of 110 acres near Talty targeting a 108 MW three-building campus, and a proposed 245 MW retrofit of Dallas Market Center announced in January, signaling developer confidence in greenfield and adaptive-reuse plays.

For acquisition-focused buyers, this reading demands forensic diligence on individual site-level interconnection agreements and utility commitment timelines rather than reliance on aggregate regional metrics. Sellers of stabilized assets with secured utility offtake should expect investor preference, while greenfield plays depend entirely on interconnection certainty and realistic build timelines to mitigate power-access risk.

M&A flow remains sparse and opaque: only three transactions appear in recent deal tracking, with partial or undisclosed terms ($45 million, $1,450 million, and one entirely blank entry), suggesting either low deal volume or substantial off-market activity. This contrasts with operator-level consolidation activity—Flexential's acreage acquisition and engagement with the Market Center project indicate strategic expansion by established players rather than third-party roll-ups or financial sponsor entry. The absence of TPG-scale mega-acquisitions or hyperscale provider buying in published flow, despite regional interest in Texas hyperscale expansion, hints that Dallas proper may be viewed as secondary to distributed suburban alternatives or that major transactions remain in negotiation.

Forward momentum depends on resolution of utility capacity constraints within the 2026–2027 window, as the pipeline of announced projects (Flexential, Crow/CleanArc) will exhaust near-term power allocations and expose whether Dallas can sustain double-digit MW annual absorption growth without infrastructure upgrades.

Data centers in Dallas

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JSON: /api/v1/markets/dallas/deep-dive · DCPI: /dcpi · Operators: /operators · Narrative written 2026-10-20, refreshed on a rolling schedule (about monthly per market); the DCPI score, MW total and facility records above are read live at page load