Microsoft PHX-12

Operating data center in Goodyear. Operated by Microsoft.

• Capacity: 57 MW
• Floor area: 250,000 sq ft
• Online since: 2024

Capacity: Estimate from a data center listing site. Cleanview project map, read October 7, 2026. The listing does not say what the figure measures.

Working here

Per-facility headcount is not published here: no reliable public figures exist for these sites, and construction announcements are not permanent employment. Open Arizona roles at this operator, where there are any, are listed on the operator's company page.

Rest of Microsoft Goodyear campus (PHX-10 to PHX-14)

• Microsoft Goodyear Campus (PHX-10 to PHX-14)
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating
• Microsoft PHX-10
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW · 244,666 sq ft
• Microsoft PHX-11
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW · 242,678 sq ft
• Microsoft PHX-13
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-14
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW

Other Microsoft facilities in Arizona

• Microsoft El Mirage Campus
  Microsoft · El Mirage · Operating
• Microsoft PHX-15
  Microsoft · Maricopa County (approximate) · Proposed · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-16
  Microsoft · Maricopa County (approximate) · Proposed · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-70
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-71
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-72
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Operating · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-73
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Proposed · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-74
  Microsoft · Goodyear · Proposed · 57 MW
• Microsoft PHX-80
  Microsoft · El Mirage · Operating · 57 MW · 245,000 sq ft
• Microsoft PHX-81
  Microsoft · El Mirage · Operating · 57 MW · 245,000 sq ft
• Microsoft PHX-82
  Microsoft · El Mirage · Operating · 57 MW · 245,000 sq ft
• Microsoft PHX-83
  Microsoft · El Mirage · Proposed · 57 MW · 245,540 sq ft

News

Stories in Arizona AI's news feed that name this facility, newest first.

• Jun 11, 2026
  Microsoft purchases 100 acres next to existing data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona
  Microsoft paid $131 million to First Industrial Realty Trust for 100 acres near Citrus and Indian School roads, next to its 150-acre Goodyear campus under development, bringing its Arizona holdings to more than 550 acres by Data Center Dynamics' count.
• Mar 2, 2024
  Microsoft Is Draining Arizona's Water for its AI
  Summarizing The Atlantic, the report said Microsoft's own estimate put the three-building Goodyear campus at about 56 million gallons a year and that Microsoft had redacted exact water figures in city records as proprietary.
• Mar 16, 2023
  Microsoft to swap water for air cooling at campus in Phoenix, Arizona
  City documents showed the Goodyear campus was capped at 500,000 gallons of industrial discharge a day, that Microsoft had abandoned its water-reuse plan, and that dissolved solids were near the agreed limit.
• Mar 14, 2023
  Microsoft agrees to make data centers air-cooled amid water infrastructure challenges in Goodyear
  Goodyear council unanimously approved an amended agreement under which Microsoft pays $36 million toward a $90 million wastewater plant expansion, posts $5 million in assurance, and air-cools its fourth and fifth buildings.
• Jun 15, 2021
  Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona
  Azure West US 3 went live from Goodyear and El Mirage with Banner Health, the State of Arizona and Teradata as early customers. Microsoft said it had invested $1.1 million in more than 70 local community initiatives.
• Sep 21, 2020
  Microsoft's newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021
  Microsoft named the Arizona region West US 3, said it would open in 2021 with Availability Zones, and described groundwater storage credits dedicated to Goodyear and El Mirage as part of a new water-positive pledge.
• Jul 30, 2019
  Building world-class sustainable datacenters and investing in solar power in Arizona
  Microsoft formally announced data center campuses in El Mirage and Goodyear, a solar deal with First Solar's 150 MW Sun Streams 2 plant, more than 100 permanent and 1,000 construction jobs, and a $20 million annual economic impact.

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How we know this

Compiled from public records and checked on 2026-10-07. Confidence in this record: medium. Blank figures mean the number is not publicly established, not that it is zero.

Each statement on this page is listed with the page it came from and the words that say it. Sources open in a new tab.

• Status: Operating

  Note: Only listing sites name this building as running. Microsoft's own statement covers Goodyear as a whole.

  • [1] Microsoft, Microsoft datacenters in Arizona (October 1, 2025): Microsoft operates datacenters and is building new facilities in El Mirage and Goodyear, part of the greater Phoenix area.
  • [2] Baxtel, Microsoft: PHX12 Data Center (read October 7, 2026): Goodyear, AZ 85338 Operational Fully operational facility
  • [3] Cleanview, Data Centers in Arizona - Project List & Locations (read October 7, 2026): Map record 3528: Microsoft PHX-12 | status Operating
  • [4] Cleanview, Microsoft PHX-12 - Maricopa County, Arizona (read October 7, 2026): Microsoft PHX-12 is a data center located in Maricopa County, Arizona. It became operational in 2024. Developed by Microsoft.

• Capacity: 57 MW

  Note: Only a listing site, Cleanview, gives this figure.

  • [3] Cleanview, Data Centers in Arizona - Project List & Locations (read October 7, 2026): Map record 3528: Microsoft PHX-12 | status Operating | capacityMw 57

• Floor area: 250,000 sq ft

  Note: The source gives this as the planned size of a third building in 2023 and does not name PHX-12.

  • [5] Data Center Dynamics, Microsoft to swap water for air cooling at campus in Phoenix, Arizona (March 16, 2023): wants to construct a third 250,000 sq ft building soon

• Online since: 2024

  Note: Only listing sites give this year. One says it became operational then and one says year built.

  • [4] Cleanview, Microsoft PHX-12 - Maricopa County, Arizona (read October 7, 2026): Microsoft PHX-12 is a data center located in Maricopa County, Arizona. It became operational in 2024. Developed by Microsoft.
  • [2] Baxtel, Microsoft: PHX12 Data Center (read October 7, 2026): Microsoft: PHX12 Year Built: 2024

• Location: Goodyear

  • [2] Baxtel, Microsoft: PHX12 Data Center (read October 7, 2026): Goodyear, AZ 85338 Operational Fully operational facility

• In March 2023, Data Center Dynamics reported that Microsoft wanted to construct a third building of about 250,000 sq ft on its campus, which we take to be this one.

  • [5] Data Center Dynamics, Microsoft to swap water for air cooling at campus in Phoenix, Arizona (March 16, 2023): wants to construct a third 250,000 sq ft building soon all future data centers developed on the PHX 10-11 Site after PHX 12 will be air-cooled.

• Counted as operating under Arizona AI's rule for buildings whose operator has not announced an in-service date: Microsoft says it operates data centers in Goodyear, listing sites list this building as running, and no source we found says otherwise.

  • [1] Microsoft, Microsoft datacenters in Arizona (October 1, 2025): Microsoft operates datacenters and is building new facilities in El Mirage and Goodyear, part of the greater Phoenix area.
  • [2] Baxtel, Microsoft: PHX12 Data Center (read October 7, 2026): Goodyear, AZ 85338 Operational Fully operational facility
  • [3] Cleanview, Data Centers in Arizona - Project List & Locations (read October 7, 2026): Map record 3528: Microsoft PHX-12 | status Operating