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OperatingMesa Data Center
Mesa
- Floor area
- 2.5M sq ft
- Land
- 396 acres
- Online
- 2025
Owner-occupied
Infrastructure
Arizona data centers
This page tracks every Arizona data center Arizona AI can verify from published sources: what is operating today, what has only been announced, and which operator is behind each site.
Why data centers are an AI story
Artificial intelligence is usually described as though it were weightless. It is not. It is a physical industry with four links in its chain, and Arizona holds two of them. Select any stage to read what happens there.
Data centers · The subject of this page
A data center is a building full of computers that run continuously on behalf of other people and companies. AI leans on them heavily: models are trained in buildings like these, and much of what people ask AI services is answered in them too, rather than on the phone or laptop in front of them. What makes them hard to site is electricity, cooling and fiber at the scale that work demands.
Copper marks the stages Arizona holds. Here is the part that is hard to picture: the 2.9 GW running today across 39 Arizona facilities is electrical demand on the scale of a large city, drawn continuously, in a desert, by buildings that mostly employ a few dozen people each once they are finished. That combination is why data centers show up in arguments about water, power bills and land use, and why a site about Arizona and AI has to count them carefully rather than cheer for them.
Overview
Built and operating today
Operating capacity
2.9 GW
Built facilities only. Added up from the 32 of 39 that publish a power figure.
Operating floor area
15.3M sq ft
Built facilities only. Added up from the 26 of 39 that publish a floor area.
Facilities in operation
39
Buildings and campuses running now. A campus and its own phases count once.
Announced but not yet built
Announced capacity
11.3 GW
Proposed projects only. Added up from the 27 of 36 that publish a power figure.
Planned floor area
13.3M sq ft
Proposed projects only. Added up from the 15 of 36 that publish a floor area.
Projects proposed
36
Announced, permitted or under construction. None of this is running yet.
The two rows are never added together. An announced project is not power Arizona has, and announced projects do change scope or fail to proceed. Arizona AI tracks 80 published records in total; 75 of them carry a figure into the numbers above, and the rest describe part of a campus that is already counted at campus level.
The largest and the newest
Built and operating today
Largest operating facility
Running now, by megawatts
- 1EdgeCore Mesa: PH03450 MW
- 2Stream Data Center: Phoenix I-VII280 MW
- 3Phoenix - Goodyear212 MW
- 4QTS Phoenix II Campus210 MW
- 5Aligned Phoenix PHX 01/02/03180 MW
Largest operating floor area
Running now, where square footage is reported
- 1EdgeCore Mesa: PH033.1M sq ft
- 2Mesa Data Center2.5M sq ft
- 3Apple Mesa Global Data Command Center1.3M sq ft
- 4Microsoft El Mirage Campus1.1M sq ft
- 5Phoenix Data Center Campus: AZ11.0M sq ft
Most recently online
Running now, by year completed
- 1Microsoft PHX-722026
- 2Microsoft PHX-822026
- 3Aligned Phoenix PHX-06 Phase 12025
- 4EdgeCore Mesa: PH032025
- 5Edged Phoenix2025
Announced but not yet built
Largest proposed project
Announced, by megawatts. None of this is running.
- 1Vermaland La Osa Data Center Campus3.0 GW
- 2Tract Buckeye1.8 GW
- 3Hassayampa Ranch Data Center1.5 GW
- 4Huntley Page Data Center1.0 GW
- 5QTS Phoenix 3 Campus750 MW
Largest proposed floor area
Announced, where square footage is reported
- 1QTS Phoenix 3 Campus3.0M sq ft
- 2Stack Infrastructure PHX02 Campus1.8M sq ft
- 3NTT Pacific Proving Technology Park (DH1-DH7)1.7M sq ft
- 4Prime Data Centers: Phoenix Campus1.3M sq ft
- 5Novva Mesa Arizona1.3M sq ft
Largest proposed site
Announced, by land assembled
- 1Tract Buckeye2,019 acres
- 2Huntley Page Data Center500 acres
- 3QTS Phoenix 3 Campus375 acres
- 4Project Blue Data Center Campus290 acres
- 5AWS Laveen Data Center220 acres
Who holds the most, company by company
The lists above rank single facilities. This adds up every facility one company holds in Arizona, which is how an operator with several medium sites can outrank one with a single large site. Ordered by capacity that is operating today. Announced capacity is shown alongside it and is never added to it. Companies that have announced a project but run nothing in Arizona yet sort below the ones that do; expand the table to reach them.
| Operator | Operating sites | Operating capacity | Proposed sites | Announced capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 9 | 542 MW | - | - |
| EdgeCore | 1 | 450 MW | - | - |
| Aligned | 3 | 289 MW | - | - |
| Stream Data Centers | 1 | 280 MW | - | - |
| QTS | 2 | 242 MW | 1 | 750 MW |
| Compass Datacenters | 1 | 212 MW | 1 | 108 MW |
| Vantage Data Centers | 1 | 176 MW | - | - |
| CyrusOne | 1 | 169 MW | 1 | - |
| 1 | 138 MW | 2 | 276 MW | |
| Iron Mountain | 3 | 95 MW | 1 | 36 MW |
A dash means nothing is publicly established, not zero. Showing 10 of 32 operators.
Every tracked facility
1 of 80 facilities
Listed A to Z. Use the sort control above to reorder by capacity or floor area.
How this list is built
Records come from public project trackers, county and municipal filings, operator announcements, and trade press, checked in August 2026. Arizona AI is independent and is not affiliated with any operator or with the State of Arizona.
Proposed projects are shown because they are the clearest signal of where Arizona is heading, but an announcement is not a building. They are labelled, kept out of operating totals, and reviewed periodically. Anything publicly abandoned is removed.
Some operators publish a campus figure and a per-building figure for the same site. Where that happens the capacity is counted once, at one level only, so the totals on this page are lower than the sum of every record shown. 5 of 80 published records are excluded from the totals for this reason.
Blank fields mean the figure is not publicly established, not that it is zero. On-site headcount is not shown at all: construction-job announcements are not permanent employment, and no reliable per-facility employment figures exist for these sites. Tenant lists are not shown for the same reason.
One source conflict is unresolved and worth stating plainly: the tracker underlying much of this list reports 87 Arizona projects in total while also reporting 41 operating and 45 planned, which sum to 86. We have not been able to reconcile the difference and have not picked a number to make it disappear.
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