What We Build Mission Critical
Our approach to quality and commissioning ensures our customers receive a facility that operates 24/7, 365 days a year.
DPR consistently ranks among the top five mission critical and data center facility builders in the country for a reason. Our dedicated data center teams know that speed to market is essential in this sector, but we also couple our agility with cost and schedule predictability that our clients can count on. By leveraging our preconstruction expertise, from site selection to cost modeling, we help advanced technology clients make strategic and informed decisions for their mission critical construction projects.
Mission Critical Local/Global Projects
The relentless pace of technology for mission critical facility builders requires us to be nimble. DPR has expert technical teams that operate in high demand data center markets adjacent to our office locations while also providing a technical traveling team to handle remote work for the right projects.
Photo: Confidential Colocation Data Center, Ashburn, VA
Technical Experts
We help companies with mission critical construction projects of all shapes and sizes, including ground up greenfield projects delivering traditional compute densities, cloud, neocloud, and AI infrastructure Leveraging our small project capabilities (SSG) with our technical live environment knowledge DPR also delivers retrofit, power and cooling upgrades, small scale data center renovations. Engaging DPR early in the process provides our customers the opportunity to benefit from preconstruction, prefabrication, sustainability, self-perform work and more. As a company focused on developing key Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls expertise, our team engages to ensure a seamless commissioning phase, from emergency scenario planning to systems performance monitoring.
Photo: Digital Realty FRA12 Data Center, Frankfurt, Germany
Mission Critical Facilities Uptime
DPR supports customers across all Uptime Institute Standards Tier Ratings. Aligning with project requirements, SLA's, end user needs while balancing cost and schedule impacts is the key focus of our preconstruction teams abilities to deliver and support key strategic decision making.
Photo: Facebook Prineville Data Center, Prineville, OR
Mission Critical Local/Global Projects
The relentless pace of technology for mission critical facility builders requires us to be nimble. DPR has expert technical teams that operate in high demand data center markets adjacent to our office locations while also providing a technical traveling team to handle remote work for the right projects.
Photo: Confidential Colocation Data Center, Ashburn, VA
Technical Experts
We help companies with mission critical construction projects of all shapes and sizes, including ground up greenfield projects delivering traditional compute densities, cloud, neocloud, and AI infrastructure Leveraging our small project capabilities (SSG) with our technical live environment knowledge DPR also delivers retrofit, power and cooling upgrades, small scale data center renovations. Engaging DPR early in the process provides our customers the opportunity to benefit from preconstruction, prefabrication, sustainability, self-perform work and more. As a company focused on developing key Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls expertise, our team engages to ensure a seamless commissioning phase, from emergency scenario planning to systems performance monitoring.
Photo: Digital Realty FRA12 Data Center, Frankfurt, Germany
Mission Critical Facilities Uptime
DPR supports customers across all Uptime Institute Standards Tier Ratings. Aligning with project requirements, SLA's, end user needs while balancing cost and schedule impacts is the key focus of our preconstruction teams abilities to deliver and support key strategic decision making.
Photo: Facebook Prineville Data Center, Prineville, OR
By the Numbers
DPR exemplifies what we look for in a contractor, with a long history of high performance even on the most technically challenging projects. It’s nice to work with a partner whom we know aligns with our priorities, goals, and has a common definition of success.
Daniel Kingman
Senior Director of Construction, Digital Realty
Rankings & Recognition
Mission Critical Construction Project Awards
North American Data Center Project of the Year (2025)
Crusoe Abilene AI Data Center Campus | Abilene, TX
Distinguished Engineering Award (2025)
CoreSite NY3 Data Center (Phase 1) | Secaucus, NJ
Construction Project Award (2024)
ABX-1 Data Center | Ashburn, VA
Vision Zero Award for North America (2023)
DPR's Vantage Data Center teams in California and Washington
Photo: Rendering courtesy of Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects
ENR California Best Manufacturing Project Award of Merit (2021)
Vantage Data Centers CA2 Campus, Phases 1 & 2 | Santa Clara, CA
AIA Design Excellence Award (2020)
Facebook Fort Worth Data Center | Fort Worth, TX
Project Awards
North American Data Center Project of the Year (2025)
Crusoe Abilene AI Data Center Campus | Abilene, TX
Distinguished Engineering Award (2025)
CoreSite NY3 Data Center (Phase 1) | Secaucus, NJ
Construction Project Award (2024)
ABX-1 Data Center | Ashburn, VA
Vision Zero Award for North America (2023)
DPR's Vantage Data Center teams in California and Washington
Photo: Rendering courtesy of Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects
ENR California Best Manufacturing Project Award of Merit (2021)
Vantage Data Centers CA2 Campus, Phases 1 & 2 | Santa Clara, CA
AIA Design Excellence Award (2020)
Facebook Fort Worth Data Center | Fort Worth, TX
Mission Critical Our Experience
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Training, Inference, Supercompute
Built for extreme compute, density and power demands, these facilities support training, inference and high-performance workloads. DPR brings experience coordinating advanced cooling, resilient and alternative power systems, and fast-track delivery leveraging prefabrication strategies to help clients scale capacity while maintaining long-term reliability and operational flexibility.
Facebook Prineville Data Center. Photo courtesy of Facebook
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Hyperscale, Enterprise, Wholesale, Build-to-Suit
Designed to deliver capacity at scale, these facilities support hyperscale, enterprise and developer-built platforms. DPR helps clients achieve speed to market through repeatable execution, disciplined planning and deep coordination across teams, while maintaining the quality, efficiency and uptime required for critical cloud operations.
CoreSite – NY3 Data Center (Phase One)
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Hyperscale, Cloud, Multi-Tenant, Start-Up, Research, AI
These projects demand flexibility, precision and careful integration of shared infrastructure. DPR understands the challenges of phased delivery, concurrent commissioning and tenant driven customization. We help owners deliver secure, scalable facilities that balance rapid deployment with long term adaptability and operational certainty.
Digital Realty Wilhelm Fay Strasse, Building 3
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SCIF, Command Centers, Network Operations, Emergency Dispatch, Call Centers
These facilities support high consequence operations where reliability, security and performance are essential. From SCIFs within data halls and command centers to emergency dispatch, network operations centers and call centers, DPR brings proven processes and trusted partnerships to deliver resilient environments that perform under constant demand.
American Red Cross Emergency Operations Center
I’ve had the pleasure of working with DPR on multiple jobs all over the country. Everywhere you go, you find the same level of commitment, the same type of teams as far as the culture, urgency and commitment. That’s what I like about DPR – they always bring solutions, not problems.
Chip Scaglione
Program Manager, Design & Construction, QTS Data Centers