DRFortress
1547 and Harrison Street acquired DRFortress, described as Hawaii's leading carrier neutral data center. It is reported, as reported April 9, 2025.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- 1547 and Harrison Street
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | 1547 and Harrison Street | as stated by the source | October 7, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
GI Partners acquired a majority interest in DRFortress in January 2020 [3]
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
DRFortress was founded in 2006 [3]
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
1547 Critical Systems Realty and Harrison Street acquired DRFortress from GI Partners [3]
The full DRFortress timeline, in order
5 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives datacentremagazine.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives datacentremagazine.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives datacentremagazine.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the draft of a statements row
The statement names drfortress-hi, which is a draft record, so no page can carry it and the build refuses it. Returned to draft 2026-09-22 until the record is approved; the words are unchanged. The old and new text.
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· the draft of a statements row
The statement names drfortress-hi, which is a draft record, so no page can carry it and the build refuses it. Returned to draft 2026-09-22 until the record is approved; the words are unchanged. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
The site
Where in Honolulu is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Honolulu, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building DRFortress?
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1547 and Harrison Street is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does DRFortress say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does DRFortress stand today?
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It is reported, as reported April 9, 2025. The newest entry, reported April 9, 2025: GI Partners acquired a majority interest in DRFortress in January 2020 [3].
What has Honolulu or its county decided about it?
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No decision by Honolulu or its county about data centers is on the record. The Hawaii scorecard lists every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- 1547 and Harrison Street acquire Hawaii's DRFortress from GI Partners - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, April 3, 2025, trade press
- 1547 and Harrison Street Acquire DRFortress, Hawaii’s Leading Carrier-Neutral Data Center - businesswire.com, businesswire.com, April 3, 2025, local outlet
- DRFortress: How the Data Centre Market in Hawaii is Growing, datacentremagazine.com, April 9, 2025, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "DRFortress", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/drfortress-hi, last verified October 7, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "DRFortress", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/drfortress-hi. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- drfortress-hi
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/hi
- Coordinates
- 21.3243, -157.8476
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- Place center (Honolulu), placed at city level: Census 2020 internal point of Urban Honolulu (data/gazetteer/place-points-2020.json)
- Coordinate source
- census centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- October 7, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-10-07