[2025] Big Tech Data Center Construction Update
Which Big Tech firms are building data centers?
Read on for more about the technology companies behind recent data center construction projects across the U.S.
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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.
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As you’ll see, many Big Tech data center projects we’re tracking are located in or around the Midwest. This is due to lower taxes and cheaper building and maintenance costs in these areas.
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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 10/22/2024 query of Hubexo’s ConstructionWire.
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We’re tracking 118 planned or under construction data center projects across the U.S., many of which are needed by Big Tech companies.
Planned Data Center Construction
Amazon Web Services Data Center at New Albany Tech Park – Phase 1
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (250,000+ sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | > $100 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | New Albany, OH 43123. Near Beech Rd NW and Miller Rd NW |
| Details: | Plans call for construction of a new data center for Amazon in an 85-acre lot. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Starts in 1-3 months |
| Construction Start: | 2/2025 |
| Construction End: | Q1/2028 |
Meta Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Green Buildings/Data Centers (715,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | $800 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | Graniteville, SC 29829. At the Sage Mill Industrial Park at 1025 Textile Court |
| Details: | Plans call for the construction of a new 715,000-square-foot data center for Meta. All electricity use will be matched with 100% renewable energy. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Starts in 1-3 months |
| Construction Start: | 1/2025 |
| Construction End: | 3/2027 |
Rocky Branch Creek Phase 6
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (717,508 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | $25-$100 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | Kansas City, MO 64165. NE of Interstate 435 and U.S. Highway 169 |
| Details: | Plans call for construction of two 358,754-square-foot data center buildings. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Starts in 12+ months |
| Construction Start: | 8/2036 |
| Construction End: | Q3/2038 |
Microsoft Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (250,000+ sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | $1000 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | La Porte, IN 46350. 300 Boyd Blvd |
| Details: | Plans call for the construction of a Microsoft data center development on a 489-acre site. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Starts in 4-12 months |
| Construction Start: | 10/2025 |
| Construction End: | Q4/2032 |
ATL11 Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (2,100,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | > $100 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | Union City, GA 30349. East of Stonewall Tell Road, and North of South Fulton Parkway |
| Details: | Plans call for the construction of a 2.1 million square foot data center campus. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Starts in 12+ months |
| Construction Start: | 2/2026 |
| Construction End: | Q1/2028 |
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Completed Data Center Construction
Project Morgan-Apple Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (400,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | $1300 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | Waukee, IA 50263. 2995 W Hickman Rd |
| 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. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Completed (past 6 months) |
| Construction Start: | 7/2022 |
| Construction End: | Q1/2024 |
Google Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Office/Data Centers (288,530 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | > $100 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | The Dalles, OR 97058. 3500 River Rd |
| Details: | Plans call for construction of a 288,530-square-foot single-story data center with a separate office building and associated infrastructure for a Google Data Center. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Completed (past 6 months) |
| Construction Start: | 4/2023 |
| Construction End: | Q1/2024 |
Amazon Data Center
| Project Information | |
|---|---|
| Project Type/Size: | Data Centers (29,840 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: | New |
| Estimated Value: | $6 million |
| Sector: | Private |
| Location: | DeSoto, TX 75115. 401 Ezell Dr |
| Details: | Plans call for the construction of a 29,840-square-foot data center for Amazon. |
| Estimated Schedule | |
| Stage: | Construction |
| Construction Start: | 4/2023 |
| Construction End: | Q4/2024 |
FAQS
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.
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.
What is a data center?
Where are data centers?
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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.
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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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