DATA CENTER RADAR · Sep 30, 2026
DPR Construction appears across data center project announcements and contractor rankings. The useful research question is what each document establishes: company experience, the scope of a particular award, or progress at a particular site. Those are different claims. A builder named in an award is not, by that fact alone, proof that every building is complete or ready to operate.
What DPR reports about its data center work
On its mission critical page, DPR says it ranks among the top five U.S. mission critical and data center facility builders, and describes preconstruction, prefabrication, self-perform work, and commissioning as parts of its delivery approach. Its advanced technology page reports that, since 1997, it has put in place more than 1.5 gigawatts of data center critical load capacity. That is a cumulative company figure, not a count of currently active sites.
The same company material counts mission critical projects, a broader category. It should not be relabeled as the number of data centers DPR has built. Rankings and company totals also do not establish the stage or contractor scope of an individual project.
What a project page can establish
DPR’s Content Portal Data Center project page describes a ground-up 155,000-square-foot building in Quincy, Washington, with 40,000 square feet of raised floor at 150 watts per square foot and five megawatts of day-one critical power. It separately describes later phases with 67,000 square feet of raised floor and a 14-megawatt critical load. Keeping those phases distinct prevents the first building’s figures from being mistaken for the whole project.
This completed-project description is evidence of a delivered example. It does not indicate where DPR is bidding today.
Richland Parish: award, scope, and construction timeline
In a December 13, 2024 announcement, DPR said it would build four data hall buildings and a network building at Meta’s Richland Parish, Louisiana, campus. It described its portion as approximately two million square feet of data space within a four-million-square-foot total build. The release said DPR’s preconstruction work was underway and mobilization for its scope was planned for mid-2025. It also identified significant self-performed work, mechanical and electrical trade partners, and more than 20 additional work packages.
DPR’s current project page says construction on the broader 2,250-acre campus began in late 2024 and identifies a delivery venture involving DPR, Turner Construction, and Mortenson. That campus start and the release’s later planned mobilization for DPR’s scope describe different milestones. The project page says the facility is expected to become operational by 2030; that is a forecast, not a confirmed operating date. DPR’s Richland Parish opportunity page also lists modular electrical rooms and mechanical cooling systems within its scope.
For suppliers, those records identify a real project and possible work categories. They do not say that a particular package is open for bids now, who has purchasing authority for it, or whether a quoted building figure applies to another phase.
How to read a contractor name in Radar
A contractor field should be checked against the underlying dated source. An owner announcement, a contractor release, and a completed-project page answer different questions. Confirm the location and phase, the role assigned to DPR, the source date, and any later evidence of progress. Radar’s stage guide explains why an announcement, approval, construction start, and operation belong on separate lines of a project timeline.
- Identify whether the document describes an award, a planned scope, active work, or completed work.
- Match the named contractor to the building or phase, not just the campus name.
- Keep expected dates separate from dates when work actually began.
- Recheck later owner, contractor, and local records before acting on a snapshot.
Browse Louisiana project previews or the U.S. project directory to compare recorded stages. Public previews are selective research records; a listed company or stage is not a live procurement notice.
Frequently asked questions
How many data centers has DPR built?
The company pages reviewed here publish cumulative critical load and broader mission critical project figures, but not a single completed-data-center count. Do not convert either measure into a facility count.
Does the Richland Parish award mean the campus is finished?
No. The 2024 release described DPR’s award and planned work. DPR’s later project page says broader campus construction began in late 2024 and gives an expected operational date in 2030. Neither is evidence that the full campus has been completed.
Does DPR self-perform every trade?
No such claim follows from “self-perform.” The Richland release says DPR would self-perform significant scopes while working with named trade partners and procuring additional packages. The specific division of work must be checked project by project.
Sources reviewed: DPR mission critical overview, advanced technology figures, Quincy project page, Richland Parish award, Richland Parish project page, and Richland Parish scope page. Company pages can change; figures and plans above are attributed to the pages available at this review.