Ark: Tucson

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Year Built: 1978
Utility Provider: Tucson Electric Power Co
Floors: 1
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Carriers:

  • Level3
  • Cox
  • CenturyLink
  • GovNET.net
  • Zayo

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0.29 miles FirstTelecom: Tucson
2.27 miles Simply Bits-Tucson
Simply Bits operates Simply Bits DC1, a 10,570 sq ft data center located in Tucson.
2.39 miles TECfusions: Tucson, AZ
Sat on eight acres in Pima County, the 133,450 sq ft (12,400 sqm) building offers 40,790 sq ft (3,790 sqm) of raised floor.
2.39 miles Aphorio Carter: Tucson, AZ
Located on an eight-acre site in Pima County, Arizona, the 133,450 sq ft (12,400 sqm) facility includes 40,790 sq ft (3,790 sqm) of raised floor space and is fully leased to TECfusions.
3.68 miles Lumen Tucson 1
5.26 miles DakotaPros: Tucson
DakotaPro employs 20+ people in Southern Arizona and operates a 14,400-square foot colocation facility and data center.
12.87 miles Beale: Project Blue
Project Blue, a massive 630 MW data center campus proposed by Beale Infrastructure and linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS), was withdrawn due to water constraints, despite a proposed investment of $3.6 billion.
12.94 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
AWS’s proposed 630 MW campus was withdrawn over water constraints, despite its $3.6B valuation.

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The company rebranded from Involta to Ark Data Centers in May 2024. It traces its origins to 2007, when Technology Resources Company and CoVault Technology merged to form Involta. Services center on enterprise colocation and cloud infrastructure, with sites across seven U.S. states. In February 2022, funds managed by Carlyle completed the acquisition of Involta.

History:

  • 2024 May: Rebranded from Involta to Ark Data Centers.
  • 2022 Feb: Carlyle’s acquisition of Involta closed.
  • 2021 Dec: Carlyle agreed to acquire Involta.
  • 2015 Jun: Acquired assets of Data Recovery Services, including two Youngstown data centers and about 5,500 fiber miles in Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
  • June 2014: Involta Acquires Data Recovery Services (DRS)
    The assets of DRS include more than 5,500 fiber miles in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, two Youngstown-based data centers, an operations management agreement for the WeConnect Community Data Center near Columbus, and leased data center space in Pittsburgh.
  • 2007: Formed through the merger of Technology Resources Company and CoVault Technology.
  • The evolution of Involta began with the founding Technology Resources Company(TRC) in 1998. CoVault Technology was founded in early 2006 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Involta was formed in 2007 through the merger of Technology Resources Company and CoVault Technology, LLC. The combination of CoVault, the only colocation data center company in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City corridor, with the data management expertise of TRC creates a company that can both house and provide support for customers’ increasingly critical data infrastructure.
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The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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US colocation firm Involta has appointed a new CEO, Brett Lindsey to replace Jim Buie, who was at the company for six years. Lindsey previously served as CEO at US fiber provider Everstream, expanding its fiber network from Cleveland across ten states in the midwest as a telecoms executive. In...

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Involta purchases land for 20MW campus in Wisconsin

December 23, 2023 Ark

US colocation player Involta recently acquired a plot of land with an existing data center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build multiple buildings on the 24.5-acre site, extending the current footprint to up to 20MW. Bruce Lehrman, founder and vice chairman of the Board of Directors for Involta...

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Involta plans Tuscon data center expansion

December 19, 2023 Ark

US data center operator Involta recently revealed plans to expand its Tucson facility in Arizona at the 38,000 square feet to 1MW. This facility located at 1215 East Pennsylvania Street was launched in January this year. It currently offers capacity for 600 racks across 20,000 sq ft of technical...

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