Plans are in the works for the building of a new and massive data center campus on the east side of Mesa.
The Herndon, Virginia-based EdgeConneX has submitted documents to the City of Mesa for a project that could see the construction of several very large structures on a 93-acre site.
To go up near the intersection of Elliot Road and Loop 202, the campus will consist of a 180,000-square-foot data hall and administrative space measuring around 50,000 square feet.
EdgeConneX has spearheaded the construction of similarly large data center projects throughout Europe and Asia, among other areas. Launched in 2009, the company has to date built more than fifty such centers.
Those centers, with the capability of providing as much as 40 million watts or more in power, provide everything from data, content, and cloud services.
The Mesa project will be EdgeConneX’s second data center located in southern Arizona, having earlier built a campus in Tempe.
Construction of the Mesa project will be done in phases, with a second phase expected to see the building of another 180,000-square-foot structure; and the third phase bringing in a 300,000- square-foot building.
A final fourth phase will feature the largest facility space of all at 400,000 square feet.
EdgeConnex’s Mesa project comes some three months after the company announced plans to build its third data center in Israel. The company has already built a 48,400-square-foot facility in Herzliya, and a 64,000-square-foot building in Petah Tikva.
By Garry Boulard
