Planned and Completed Data Center Projects 

[2022] Big Tech Data Center Construction Update

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: SpringfieldVA 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.
Stage: Planning (Active)

Project Morgan: Apple Data Center

Project Type/Size: Data Centers (400,000 sq-ft)
Construction Type: New
Estimated Value: $1300 million
Sector: Private
Location: WaukeeIA 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: GallatinTN 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 

Facebook/Meta Data Center — FTW4

Project Type/Size: Data Centers (168,488 sq-ft)
Construction Type: New
Estimated Value: $199.8 million
Sector: Private
Location: Fort WorthTX 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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