SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC OPENS DATA CENTER INTEGRATION FACILITY IN RED OAK, TX

Schneider Electric opened a new 105,000-square-foot integration facility in Red Oak, Texas that will be used to build prefabricated modular infrastructure to satisfy the growing demand for new data centers throughout the U.S. The facility’s opening will also create more than 200 jobs that are required to manufacture and ship the products from the North Texas region to locations across the U.S.

Designed to build pre-engineered, prefabricated IT infrastructure, the facility will accelerate the production of integrated modular data center solutions to meet rising data center demand as the AI market grows. It will do so by eliminating the upfront engineering and design work that is necessary on many data center projects. As a result, Schneider will be able to expedite delivery of standardized infrastructure to customers nationwide and reduce production costs.

“The opening of this facility is a milestone, not only for Compass’ partnership with Schneider Electric but also for the way the data center industry’s supply chain is evolving to meet accelerating demand for data centers,” said Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters. “We thought outside the box in building the Schneider facility adjacent to our Red Oak campus. This state-of-the-art facility will support Compass’ responsiveness to customer demand and help data center providers respond to growing cloud and AI infrastructure needs.”

Schneider Electric is working with Texas State Technical College to recruit and train the new facility’s employees. The company employs more than 3,500 people in Texas, including 400 employees in the Dallas area. Last fall, Schneider Electric opened its fourth and largest U.S. electrical equipment factory in El Paso, Texas. That facility provides custom electrical products for customers in a variety of market sectors, including data center components for the Red Oak facility.