Skybox Datacenters and Prologis announced they are partnering on a new data center in Pflugerville, a northern suburb of Austin. Skybox Austin I will be a 30-megawatt (MW), 141,240 square-foot facility. The Skybox Austin I project is the latest collaboration between data center developer Skybox and Prologis who have also launched a data center in Suburban Chicago.
Skybox Datacenters is based in Dallas and focuses on purpose-built facilities for the wholesale data center market, working with enterprise, hyperscale and colocation customers. Prologis is an international real estate firm with 1.2 billion square feet of facilities and development projects in 19 countries.
“It’s no secret that Austin has become a huge draw for some of the nation’s largest technology firms,” said Rob Morris, the CEO of Skybox Datacenters. “The unprecedented volume of new businesses, their employees and investment in the region is creating a new epicenter for technology and innovation.”
Oracle, Tesla and Digital Realty are among the companies that have relocated their corporate headquarters from the San Francisco Bay Area to Austin over the past several years, burnishing the region’s reputation as the “Silicon Hills” due to its strong concentration of semiconductor and computer companies, led by Dell Technologies and AMD.
The site is supported by two substations and is supplied by ONCOR, a competitor to Austin Energy. The company has lined up incentives from Pflugerville Community Development Corporation that offer up to $1.5 million over 10 years to support job creation by tenants at the new data center. The incentives will be paid once Skybox proves investment thresholds have been met, and passed through to tenants via rent credits or tenant improvement allowances. The Pflugerville city council approved the incentive package in a meeting last week.
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