{"id":1004723192,"date":"2024-07-30T02:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004723192"},"modified":"2024-08-05T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:48:33","slug":"microsoft-boosts-data-center-capacity-in-san-antonio-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/microsoft-boosts-data-center-capacity-in-san-antonio-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Boosts Data Center Capacity in San Antonio Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" data-attachment-id=\"1004719093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/are-microgrids-the-answer-to-cres-power-struggle\/msft-rendering-featured\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MSFT Rendering featured\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Microsoft\u2019s San Jose data center&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Microgrids. Image courtesy of Enchanted Rock&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png?w=960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png?w=960\" alt=\"Microsoft\u2019s San Jose data center\" class=\"wp-image-1004719093\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png 960w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/06\/MSFT-Rendering-featured.png?resize=768,576 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Microsoft\u2019s San Jose data center uses microgrids, significantly lowering local emissions.<em> Image courtesy of Enchanted Rock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Microsoft will more than double the size of a data center campus in Medina County, Texas, in the San Antonio metro, the <em>San Antonio Business Journal<\/em> reported based on a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planned single-story, 244,000-square-foot building reportedly will offer space for up to five tenants. Construction is planned to begin in April 2026 with a tentative dollar value of $483 million, according to <em>SABJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WSP USA, of New York, is designing the space. Construction is expected to finish in the first quarter of 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/are-microgrids-the-answer-to-cres-power-struggle\/\">Are Microgrids the Answer to CRE\u2019s Power Struggle?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Once underway, this will be the third data center Microsoft is developing at a site near Castroville, Texas. The first two buildings are expected to deliver later this quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other companies too are part of a data center boom in the metro, including CyrusOne, Vantage Data Centers, Amazon and CloudHQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just last month, Stream Data Centers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/stream-data-centers-builds-400m-campus-in-san-antonio\/\">broke ground<\/a> on its third project in the San Antonio region, a campus with up to five AI-ready buildings totaling 1.5 million square feet and supporting up to 200 MW of capacity. The first 300,000-square-foot building is scheduled to deliver in the second quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-massive-midwest-commitment\">Massive Midwest commitment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Microsoft has been a steady and major player in data center development. One of its highest-profile projects has been a $1 billion, 215-acre data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wis., which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/microsoft-breaks-ground-on-1b-data-center\/\">broke ground<\/a> in August 2023. Lead contractor Walsh Construction was scheduled to begin foundation work on the development\u2019s four buildings that fall, with project completion expected in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past May, however, Microsoft announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/behind-microsofts-3-3b-wisconsin-data-center-project\/\">plans to expand the project<\/a> with perhaps $2 billion or more of additional cloud and AI infrastructure capacity. Other aspects of the expansion involved partnerships with Gateway Technical College and the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee and a partnership with National Grid build a new 250 MW solar project in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new facility marks the company\u2019s third project in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004719093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21755,21782,21742,1607,51973],"tags":[33865,46787],"class_list":["post-1004723192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centers","category-development","category-latest","category-san-antonio","category-southwest","tag-microsoft","tag-wsp"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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