Prime Data Centers has broken ground on the first three data centers of its new five-building, 240-megawatt IT Phoenix campus in Avondale, Ariz. Each building is a 267,000-square-foot facility delivering 48 megawatts of critical IT load capacity. This marks the opening phase of the campus, which will ultimately span 66.5 acres, 1.3 million square feet and 240 megawatts of total critical power across five hyperscale data centers.
Avondale sits at the heart of one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the nation, where demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-ready infrastructure, cloud computing and high-performance workloads continues to accelerate. PHX01-01 is designed to support single- or multi-tenant hyperscale deployments requiring scalable, high-density infrastructure.
“Breaking ground on PHX01’s first three buildings is a defining moment for Prime’s partnership with Avondale and for the greater Phoenix region,” said Michael Wall, executive vice pr