CyrusOne and Eolian, L.P., announced a collaborative infrastructure deployment for a new data center campus, DFW7, currently under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, that will provide new digital infrastructure capacity for hyperscalers and enterprises. The partnership leverages existing high-voltage transmission infrastructure and substation capacity adjacent to DFW7 to achieve accelerated time-to-market for the strategic site.

Innovative Infrastructure Utilization

The collaboration co-locates large-scale data center capacity at an existing grid-scale battery energy storage site. In 2023, Eolian identified an opportunity for CyrusOne to deploy new data center capacity at an accelerated rate by utilizing existing high-voltage infrastructure at Chisholm Grid, a 100 MW BESS site seven miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth that began commercial operations in the ERCOT market in 2021.

The companies collaborated on a novel structure that enabled CyrusOne to break ground in April 2025, using an approach focused on optimizing the use of existing grid infrastructure and substations to compress the timeline for data center deployment in one of the country's fastest-growing digital infrastructure markets.

Executive Leadership Perspectives

Eric Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer of CyrusOne, stated that customers' continued growth drives demand for new capacity. “Leveraging the existing infrastructure at the Fort Worth campus enables CyrusOne to deliver large-scale capacity to customers beginning in 2026,” Schwartz said. He added that CyrusOne is accelerating time-to-market for customers by working creatively with Eolian as an established energy project developer and operator with existing sites in locations that would be difficult to replicate.

Aaron Zubaty, Chief Executive Officer of Eolian, described the project as a problem-solving approach that leverages existing infrastructure to accelerate growth in power and data centers. “By developing flexible capacity resources at highly networked grid locations, we can enable hyperscale growth without duplicating facilities, expanding transmission, or utilizing additional industrial real estate,” Zubaty said. He emphasized that this represents how the grid should evolve efficiently, quickly, and in direct response to real load growth.

Strategic Implementation and Modernization

Eolian introduced the Fort Worth industrial campus to CyrusOne based on its operational experience at the BESS facility and its early identification of the substation as a key piece of infrastructure for load growth in the region. As part of this transaction with CyrusOne, Eolian will modernize and upgrade one of Texas's first utility-scale BESS systems, while the existing infrastructure will provide energy supply to the initial phases of digital infrastructure.

Zubaty noted that projects like DFW7 prove that the fastest path forward is not necessarily to construct transmission infrastructure alone, but also to first use what has already been built more efficiently. The result of this collaboration is a forward-looking campus designed to support AI-driven compute growth, data center deployment, and long-term grid reliability in North Texas.

Company Backgrounds

Eolian operates a growing portfolio of battery energy storage projects and develops and invests in clean energy and co-located large load projects across the US. For over 20 years, Eolian's founding management has worked together to build the assets at the core of the company, creating unique and proprietary structures that have directly funded the development of nearly 30 GW of operating or under-construction energy storage, solar, and wind generating capacity across the country.

Eolian is owned by its employees and is funded by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a BlackRock company and leading global infrastructure investor.

CyrusOne is a leading global data center owner, developer, and operator, delivering sophisticated digital infrastructure solutions worldwide. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company operates over 55 data centers across the United States, Europe, and Japan. Specializing in comprehensive solutions for hyperscale and enterprise companies, CyrusOne enables customers to align with their unique business and sustainability goals, catering to the complex needs of AI-driven applications and services workloads.

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