Utah Data Center Firm Gears up for First Arizona Project

Article originally posted on Phoenix Business Journal on August 22, 2024

A year after acquiring a chunk of Mesa land through a state land auction, Novva Data Centers is getting public feedback for its first Arizona project.

Utah-based Novva is proposing a campus that would include five data halls, an office building, a warehouse, an SRP switchyard and public gathering spaces. In total, the project totals more than 1.4 million square feet with the vast majority eyed for data center use.

Mesa’s Design Review Board on Aug. 13 heard details about the development, dubbed “Project Borealis” in city documents. The project will also include a future retail component that was not part of this proposal.

“We’re excited to announce our intention to make Mesa the home of Novva’s sixth data center. Because all of our data centers are strategically located in the West, we are fortunate to bring the best of what we’ve learned from our previous projects to this new Arizona data center. This includes sustainable practices that will conserve local resources, innovative technologies that will help our data center run as efficiently as possible and cutting-edge infrastructure that will make these data centers unlike any other in the region,” said Wes Swenson, CEO of Novva Data Centers, in a statement.

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