Vantage Data Centers Buys Vacant Land in San Antonio

The region is a data center hotbed. San Antonio’s West Side is home to at least 30 campuses. Denver-based Vantage Data Centers has purchased two clusters of vacant land totaling 89 acres on San Antonio’s far West Side. A 31-acre site is across Rogers Road from where Microsoft has three data centers with over 1 million square feet of space. The West Side has become a data hub in part due to its reliable electrical supply, with two transmission lines carrying power from different substations.

The San Antonio Report reports if it goes ahead with construction, it will be the company’s first in Texas. Its website lists 11 centers in North America — ranging from Silicon Valley to Phoenix to Montreal, Canada — as well as 11 in Europe, six in Asia, one in South Africa and one in Australia. This month, the company revealed plans for a 1.7 million-square-foot campus in the Atlanta area. It’s not uncommon for a company to spend $1 billion building a project.