Which tech firms are building data centers?
Read on for more on the technology companies behind recent data center construction projects across the U.S. including states like Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska, Texas, and Oregon.
Make no mistake: when you save something to the cloud, it isn’t just flying around in the sky. Instead, it resides in what are sometimes known as mission-critical data centers. In fact, data centers account for 1 percent of global electricity demand annually.
Some of the biggest companies in the world are throwing their resources behind building new data centers. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft need data centers to store all of their information, which they are amassing more of every day.
With that in mind, we’ve tracked down some of the biggest companies’ planned and completed data center projects. This list includes planned and current data center projects, as well also those completed within the past year, per a 3.21.22 query of BuildCentral’s ConstructionWire. The list is sorted by construction stage and ordered according to project value.
BuildCentral is currently tracking over $4.5 billion in planned & current data center projects, as of 3.21.22
Planned Data Center Construction
Amazon Web Services Data Center
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (240,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$25-$100 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Springfield, VA 22150. 7961 Loisdale Rd |
| Details: |
Plans call for the demolition of the existing office buildings, and the construction of a 240,000-square-foot data center on a 23.59-acre site. |
Project Morgan: Apple Data Center
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (400,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$1300 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Waukee, IA 50263. At the intersection of Hickman Road and South Avenue |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a new, 400,000-square-foot data center on a 2000-acre site. The three-building complex will be powered entirely with on-site renewable energy. |
| Stage: |
Starts in 1-3 months |
| Construction Start: |
Q2/2022 |
| Construction End: |
Q1/2024 |
Meta Gallatin Data Center
| Project Type/Size: |
Green Buildings/Data Centers (982,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$800 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Gallatin, TN 37066. 1432 Gateway Dr |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a two-story 982,000-square-foot data center for Meta (formerly Facebook) on 805.81 acres. It will be LEED Gold certified with two buildings joined together in an “H” configuration. |
| Stage: |
Construction |
| Construction Start: |
Q1/2021 |
| Construction End: |
Q4/2023 |
Completed Data Center Construction
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (168,488 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$199.8 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Fort Worth, TX 76177. 4500 Like Way |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a 168,488-square-foot data center building. |
| Stage: |
Completed |
| Construction Start: |
Q4/2020 |
| Construction End: |
Q4/2021 |
Microsoft Chevron Build-Out Phase II
Microsoft Chevron Data Center (Stream Data Centers)
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (104,837 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New, Renovation |
| Estimated Value: |
$28 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
San Antonio, TX 78251. 5200 Rogers Rd (View Map) |
| Details: |
Plans call for two additional data centers on the property totaling 104,837 square feet. This will include a full build-out and one new shell building, plus a metal building connector corridor as well as an equipment service yard. |
| Stage: |
Completed |
| Construction Start: |
Q1/2020 |
| Construction End: |
8/2021 |
| Bid Due Date: |
N/A |
Google Data Center, Phase I
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (281,792 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$5-$25 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Papillion, NE 68138. At the northwest corner of Schram Road and State Highway 50, just west of Omaha National Cemetery (View Map) |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a two-story, 281,792 square-foot data center for Google as the first phase of a 2.5 million square foot, multi-building data center complex on a 275-acre site. |
| Stage: |
Completed |
| Construction Start: |
Q3/2019 |
| Construction End: |
Q2/2021 |
| Bid Due Date: |
N/A |
FAQS
What is a data center?
A data center is a storage facility for cloud-based information. Large companies with expansive client bases like Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft often use them to house their consumers' data.
Where are data centers?
Unlike brick-and-mortar institutions, data centers don't rely on foot traffic to fulfill their purposes. As such, they aren't typically located in urban areas and instead are usually built in more rural, unpopulated, and low-traffic areas.
User information isn’t going anywhere, which means companies that are constantly accruing large amounts of their consumers’ data continually need to find new places to house it in a cost-efficient manner.
Remember, though, that as more data centers sprout up, the amount of real estate available for new data centers shrinks. There’s a finite amount of room for these facilities, and there’s a finite amount of energy to spend on them, but for now, these companies are moving forward with their plans, often touting renewable energy-fed projects in the process.
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