A move is underway for the construction of a second massive data center in Mesa, Arizona for the online service Google.
The multinational search engine company has submitted papers to build what is officially called Redhawk Phase 2, a structure that will go up on a technology-thriving campus at the intersection of East Elliot Road and South Sossaman Road.
What is proposed as a 280,000-square-foot building will house the associated equipment needed for any Google data facility and will be designed by HDR Engineering of Omaha, Nebraska, and the Phoenix-based Haydon Building Corporation.
Google started work on the construction of its initial Mesa data center last summer, a 288,000-square-foot facility that is expected to be completed next summer.
At the time of the launching of the work on the first facility, Google announced that the center was needed to power the company’s search, email, maps, and AI services.
The project had earlier been approved for up to $16 million in tax breaks to span a 25-year period by the Mesa City Council.
Both of the Google facilities are a part of the ever-expanding Elliot Road Technology Corridor, which is also is the home to data centers operated by Apple and EdgeCore, among other corporations.
The two facilities, according to Google officials, have a building plan emphasizing net zero emissions, matching all of its annual electricity use with renewable energy.
Google currently operates, or is building, nearly two dozen similar-sized data centers across the US, with most of those facilities located either in the South or West.
By Garry Boulard
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