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Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

Vantage Data Centers has expanded its data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, by completing the construction of a new data center. The company revealed that it topped out its first 32MW data center on the Phoenix campus. Vantage acquired land in 2019 and began construction on the site. The...

November 24, 2021

Vantage Phoenix

Microsoft announces opening of two new data centers in Wyoming

Microsoft has announced the launch of two new data center facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The facilities are located in Bison Business Park and the Cheyenne Business Parkway. The facilities will support Microsoft’s West Central US Azure region. VP of core operations for data centers at Micros...

November 23, 2021

Microsoft Cheyenne Business Parkway

SteelWave buys data center and office building from Metronest in Boulder, Colorado

A real estate firm called SteelWave has acquired a data center and office complex belonging to Metronest. The property is located at 1450 Infinite Drive in Louisville, Boulder County. The building is a multi-tenant one, and it occupies 154,000 square feet of space. It also sits on a 20.3-a...

November 18, 2021

Colorado (CO)

Unoccupied NortonLifeLock data center in Arizona up for sale

NortonLifeLock Inc. is putting up an unoccupied data center in Tucson, Arizona, for sale. The facility sits upon 8.5 acres of land, and it is located at 3701 E. Columbia Street. It has 133,452 square feet of space with 40,793 square feet of raised floor within three data halls. In addition, th...

November 12, 2021

Arizona

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center to partner and create a water pipeline for recycled water

Switch and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center have joined forces to create a regional water improvement pipeline. The project in Sparks, Nevada, will see the construction of a 16-mile pipeline that will transport 4,000 acre-feet of “treated effluent water” from the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamat...

November 03, 2021

Reno

Expedient acquires data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Expedient has acquired a data center in Phoenix, which Blue Cross Shield formerly owned. The facility it acquired is located at 2475 West Townley Avenue. It is a 2.4MW capacity data center with 45,000 square feet of space. Expedient says the facility was built to Tier III standards. Expedient’...

November 03, 2021

Expedient Data Centers

Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico

Facebook announced this week that it is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico. Facebook plans to add another two buildings to the facility. Upon completion, the site will have almost 3.8 million square feet of space. The social media giant's investment in the facility will also ...

October 29, 2021

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Five 9s Digital buys Blue Cross Blue Shield data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Five 9s Digital has completed the acquisition of a data center in Phoenix, Arizona, from Blue Cross Blue Shield. The facility is at 2525 W Townley Avenue. Also, the Phoenix facility has 50,000 square feet of space. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. However, Five 9...

October 01, 2021

Five 9s: Blue Shield Phoenix

DataBank opens two more data halls at its SLC5 Facility in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced that it has opened data halls four and five in its SLC5 data center. The facility is located at its Granite Point North campus in Utah. This is after it announced the opening of data hall three in May 2021 at the same facility. The fourth and fifth data center halls ...

September 22, 2021

DataBank SLC5

Novva announces its 1.5 Million sq. ft. flagship Campus in Salt Lake City, Utah

Novva Data Centers has announced the opening of its flagship data center campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The facility is a 100-acre campus with a current data center space of 330,000 square feet. Upon completion, the facility will be expanded to 1.5 million square feet. This will make the f...

September 20, 2021

Novva: West Jordan Campus

Novva Data Centers acquires Colorado Springs Campus

Novva Data Centers has announced that it has acquired a 37-acre campus and 190k sqft of data center and supporting facilities, which features a Tier 3+ data center and industrial building in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The data center has a 6 MW designed capacity, but Novva will inject $200 mi...

August 31, 2021

NOVVA Colorado Springs

Facebook revealed as the company behind $800m Mesa project

Last week, Facebook announced that it is the tech company behind the data center in Mesa. The 960,000 sqft facility will see a projected $800 million investment, and an estimated 100 operational jobs and 1,500 construction jobs. That said, the tech giant's plans haven't been without opposition...

August 16, 2021

Apple Mesa

Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center

Aligned has announced plans to develop its $1.25 billion SLC-04, a waterless data center, based in Salt Lake City. Instead of cooling its data centers with water, SLC-04 will use the cold desert climate to eliminate heat. The company's Delta3 cooling technology will accompany this. Accordi...

August 11, 2021

Aligned SLC-04

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

July 15, 2021

NTT Phoenix Campus

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

July 05, 2021

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

June 30, 2021

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

Microsoft launches new Azure region in Arizona

Microsoft just launched its new Azure cloud region in Arizona. The region would be made up of three facilities or Availability Zones. Also, the zones will be sited in Goodyear, El Mirage, and outside Phoenix. Microsoft said the reason for choosing Arizona for the Azure cloud data center is bec...

June 15, 2021

Microsoft Goodyear Campus

Comarch to build its first US data center in Mesa, Arizona

Comarch has announced plans to build its first data center in the US, located in Mesa, Arizona. The Polish software firm has said that construction on the 32,000 sq ft (3,000 sqm) facility is due to commence this month, and will be its flagship building.The data center, which will see a $22 mi...

June 11, 2021

Comarch Mesa

phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

June 10, 2021

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

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