Data Center Campus Substation & Power Delivery
A 345 kV substation and medium-voltage distribution energized ahead of a campus's first data hall.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Texas
- Market
- Data Centers
- Capital value
- $420M
- Size
- 345 kV · 300 MW
- Delivery
- EPC
- Duration
- 24 months
- Completed
- 2026
What was at stake.
Utility interconnection, transformer delivery and outage windows on the transmission system were outside the owner's control, yet every data hall depended on them. Large power transformers had lead times longer than the building schedule. The owner needed to see the power path and its risk every month.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Power path schedule
Interconnection approvals, transformer manufacturing, outages and energization were scheduled as one chain tied to each data hall.
Vendor oversight
Transformer and breaker manufacturing progress was tracked monthly from the factory, with test dates in the schedule.
Outage planning
Transmission outage requests were lined up with construction readiness, so no window was wasted.
Risk analysis
Monte Carlo analysis on the energization date showed the owner exactly how much float the power path really had.
The result.
The building can be perfect and still sit dark. Power is the first critical path on any data center campus.
Project controls manager, AdenTurton
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