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PowerCampus Dallas

Lancaster, Dallas County, TXDeveloper: Skybox Datacenters

Also known as Skybox Lancaster data center campus

Under constructionConstruction on the first building began in June 2024; a January 2025 state filing listed completion for May 2026; completion and tenant not confirmed
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

PowerCampus Dallas is Skybox Datacenters' planned campus of up to 300 MW on roughly 100 acres near Interstate 35E in Lancaster, in southern Dallas County. Skybox is developing it with Bandera Ventures, with Principal Asset Management as capital partner. Work on the first building, about 270,900 sq ft, began in June 2024; the sources reviewed do not say whether it has been completed or leased.

Key facts

Size & schedule

Planned capacity300 MW [5]
campus total served by a private on-site substation; Skybox's site also shows 200 MW of critical load
Site size110 acres [1]
Data Center Frontier says 110; Dallas Innovates says roughly 100
Floor area1 million sq ft [2]
planned full build-out of data center space
Target completionFirst building (about 270,900 sq ft): delivery anticipated in early 2026 per state planning documents; a January 2025 Texas TDLR filing lists completion on 2026-05-01 [4]

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Power

UtilityOncor (private 300 MW substation) [1]
Utility pages: Oncor · data centers and bills

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Timeline

  1. Skybox and Bandera Ventures announce PowerCampus Dallas in Lancaster [1]

  2. Construction begins on the first building, estimated at about $85 million in state planning documents [3]

  3. Texas accessibility filing registered for interior improvements to the 270,900 sq ft Building 1 shell, estimated at $214.3 million [4]

Issues raised

  • Reported cost of the first building differs between the 2024 planning documents (about $85 million) and the 2025 state filing for interior work ($214.3 million), which cover different scopes

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Skybox Plans 300-Megawatt PowerCampus Dallas in Lancaster, Texas
    Data Center Frontier · Nov 20, 2023 · news
  2. Skybox Datacenters Begins Work on Massive Data Center in Southern Dallas County
    Dallas Innovates · Nov 20, 2023 · news
  3. Skybox launches construction on massive Lancaster data center campus
    Corgan · Jun 10, 2024 · other
  4. Skybox - Lancaster 1 Initial Improvements (TABS2025010445)
    Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation · Jan 27, 2025 · government
  5. Skybox Datacenters: Dallas locations
    Skybox Datacenters · Oct 13, 2026 · company

Cite this page

Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). PowerCampus Dallas. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/skybox-powercampus-dallas-lancaster-tx
MLA“PowerCampus Dallas.” Data Center Census, Oct 13, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/skybox-powercampus-dallas-lancaster-tx.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/skybox-powercampus-dallas-lancaster-tx

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