Google Shows Plans for $1B Mesa Data Center

Article originally posted on HERE on June 14, 2023

The city of Mesa approved zoning on the data center campus in 2019. It’s taken this long for the company to start coming forward with building design plans.

The project — called “Redhawk” — is planned on more than 185 acres near the northwest corner of Sossaman and Elliot roads. The Phoenix Business Journal Reports its first phase will include a 288,530-square-foot data center building with a utility switchyard, a medium voltage substation that services the data center (see photo), a site entrance with a security kiosk, public road improvements and an employee office building.

Per the development agreement between Google and the city of Mesa, the tech giant is on the clock to complete construction on the first phase of the project by July 2025, along with spending at least $600 million in capital expenditures and $180 million in taxable construction costs. Eventhough Google will not have to pay property taxes, the city’s economic development office estimates the entire state, county and local tax revenue over 25 years will be $156.57 million.