By Scott Shumaker | The Mesa Tribune
Landowner Pacific Proving LLC has proposed a 178-acre campus east of Legacy Park with six data centers containing 32 data halls totaling 1.4 million square feet of server space.
Pacific Proving’s preliminary submission to the Mesa Planning Department calls for 360 megawatts of capacity – putting it well into the “hyperscale” category. For comparison, NTT Global Data Centers’ planned Mesa campus will have 240 MW of capacity.
One of the largest landowners in southeast Mesa, Pacific Proving bought the southern 1,800 acres of the former GM Proving Grounds in 2004 and owns the land beneath Legacy Park.
The data campus’ project narrative doesn’t state the entity that is interested in building and operating the data centers. The attorney who submitted the proposal did not respond to a request for information.
The data campus proposal comes on the heels of an October pre-submittal meeting ahead of a formal application by Amazon Web Services for two separate data campuses on two parcels the company owns on Pecos and Elliot roads, respectively.
Amazon’s Pecos Road data center campus is slated to have 454,000 square-feet of data halls spread across 71 acres, to the east of Pacific Proving’s data campus project.
The spate of new data center proposals and the scale of the Pacific Proving campus will test the city’s tolerance for these projects in industrial parts of Mesa where officials would prefer to see job-intensive advanced manufacturing.
