May 08, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Prime Data Centers has begun construction on a new facility in California. This week, the company broke ground on SMF02, the second data center within its Sacramento campus. Located near its existing SMF01 site at 2408 AK Street, the new facility will span 150,000 square feet (13,935 sqm) and provide 18MW of critical IT capacity.
“Sacramento has proven itself as a strategic growth market, and SMF02 is a direct response to the demand we are seeing from customers deploying AI and high-performance computing workloads at scale,” said Michael Hildebrand, SVP of Product Delivery at Prime Data Centers. “With SMF01 operational and SMF02 now underway, our Sacramento campus gives customers a long-term home for mission-critical infrastructure in one of California’s most important technology regions.”
“We are proud to once again partner with Prime Data Centers on this innovative project. Our relationship reflects the trust we've built together on a national level. Construction will support approximately 250 on-site workers at peak, with additional economic activity generated through local subcontractors, suppliers, and service providers,” shared Errol Lolin, SVP, general manager at Clune Construction Company.
Prime’s Sacramento campus is located on 8.6 acres in McClellan Business Park and provides a total of 26MW across 215,000 square feet (19,947 sqm). The original facility went live in 2020, while plans for the second building were announced in 2021, with a formal filing submitted last year. The company says it has a total of 7GW of operational and planned data center capacity across the US and Europe. Its footprint includes locations such as Chicago, Phoenix, Austin, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Berlin, Helsinki, Esbjerg, and Madrid.
