A plan is moving forward for the creation of a technology campus of more than 150 acres on the southeast side of Mesa, Arizona.
The project belongs to the Mesa-based Pacific Proving LLC, which wants to build a data center on a vacant desert site at northeast corner of South Crimson Road and East Pecos Road.
In order to make the project a reality, Pacific Proving, via its legal representative Gammage & Burnham LLC, wants to annex two separate sites, one measuring 42 acres and the other 130 acres.
As proposed, the project would include 11 buildings with a total footprint of more than 2 million square feet. A separate structure measuring 150,000 square feet would be used for offices, with one additional building, at 95,000 square feet, to house a warehouse.
The project is regarded as a hyperscale development, encompassing 360 megawatts of capacity.
One of the largest landowners in southeast Mesa, Pacific Proving is also planning to build an electric substation on the site to supply additional power. In city documents, the company has said that it plans to use a closed-loop water cooling system for each of the project’s data halls.
Located 18 miles to the southeast of Phoenix, Mesa is part of a metropolitan swath that has emerged in recent years as one of the country’s largest data center facility markets.
An industry report released in late 2022 listed the metro area as the fifth largest of its kind for data center development.
Earlier this spring, Google revealed plans for the construction of a second data center in Mesa, measuring around 280,000 square feet. That facility follows the construction of an initial 288,000-square-foot data center scheduled for completion in the summer of 2025.
By Garry Boulard
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