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.
Read more: How Planned Construction Data Shapes Big Tech Data Center Construction
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 $45.5 billion in planned & current data center projects, as of 9.29.23 (Yellow: Planning; Purple: Construction)
Planned Data Center Construction
Meta Data Center
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (1,000,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$800 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Kansas, MO 64165. US 169 and NW 128 St |
| Details: |
Plans call for development of a new 1 million square foot data center. The project will be part of the Golden Plains Technology Park. |
Meta Mesa Data Center Expansion
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (2,500,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$1000 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Mesa, AZ 85201. 3841 S Ellsworth Rd |
| Details: |
Plans call for expansion of Meta Data Center. This project includes three new buildings totaling 2,500,000 square feet of space. |
| Stage: |
Construction |
| Construction Start: |
12/2022 |
| Construction End: |
Q1/2026 |
Amazon Data Center Nokes Boulevard
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (311,672 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$25-$100 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Sterling, VA 20166. 45965 Nokes Blvd |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a single two-story, 311,672-square-foot Amazon data center building. |
Amazon Data Center Campus
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (250,000+ sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
> $100 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
New Albany, OH 43054. North of the existing Amazon data center at 1245 Beech Rd SW, on both the east & west side of Beech Rd SW |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of an up to 29 building data center campus for Amazon on 400 acres of land. |
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (250,000+ sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$1000 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Mount Pleasant, WI 53177. NW of 90th St & CH KR |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of a Microsoft data center on a 315-acre site. There will be four buildings. |
| Stage: |
Starts in 1-3 months |
| Construction Start: |
10/2023 |
| Construction End: |
Q4/2026 |
Completed Data Center Construction
| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (250,000+ sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$200 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Hilliard, OH 43026. 4120 Scioto Darby Road |
| Details: |
Plans call for the construction of an Amazon data center on a 151-acre site. |
| Stage: |
Completed (past 6 months) |
| Construction Start: |
12/2022 |
| Construction End: |
Q3/2023 |
| Project Type/Size: |
Office/Data Centers (153,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
Addition/Expansion |
| Estimated Value: |
$175.9 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
San Antonio, TX 78245. 15355 Lambda Drive |
| Details: |
Plans call for a 153,000-square-foot addition to an existing Microsoft data center. The addition will include administrative use. |
| Stage: |
Completed (past 6 months) |
| Construction Start: |
6/2023 |
| Construction End: |
9/2023 |
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| Project Type/Size: |
Data Centers (60,000 sq-ft) |
| Construction Type: |
New |
| Estimated Value: |
$5-$25 million |
| Sector: |
Private |
| Location: |
Austin, TX 78758. 1025 Alterra Parkway |
| Details: |
Plans call for the built out of 60,000 square-foot data center for PayPal. |
| Stage: |
Completed (past 6 months) |
| Construction Start: |
10/2022 |
| Construction End: |
Q2/2023 |
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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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