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Digital Realty Dallas DFW28

850 East Collins Boulevard · Richardson, Dallas County, TX

Source: OpenStreetMap

Digital Realty Dallas DFW28 is a mapped data center in Dallas County, TX, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 6.8 MW of reported power capacity and a 122,015 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jul 15, 2026

Real parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Operator
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Power
6.8 MW
Footprint
122,015 sq ft
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

DFW28 is a colocation data center in Richardson, Dallas County, Texas, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. The site is mapped, with a reported footprint of 122,015 square feet. Available records do not name an ownership chain above Digital Realty Trust.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
635 ft
Richardson Collins Boulevard · 138 kV
Transmission line
635 ft
138 kV line
Municipal water
Served
City Of Richardson

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0
    State of Texas · granted 2014 · term yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
42
PM2.5
Good
29
O3
Good
24
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Dallas-Fort Worth), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$82.2K
People of color
64%
Below poverty
5%
Tract population
1,397

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Winfree Academy Charter School (richardson) in Richardson, is 0.6 mi from this site (136 students). 3 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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