ARIZONA – Google has broken ground on a new $600 million data center in Mesa, and will use state-of-the-art technology to cool the facility’s air. This will be the company’s first physical presence in the state, the Arizona Commerce Authority detailed.
Google’s continued investment in technical infrastructure, including its data centers, plays a key role in supporting the company’s AI innovations and growing cloud business. Mesa’s new data center will help power popular digital services – such as Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Google Cloud and others – for people and organizations around the world. Other industries, such as healthcare, the public sector, manufacturing, financial services and retail, among others, also rely on the computing power of data centers to serve their customers and provide key services to local communities.
In addition, to support its growing customer base, Google has also announced the arrival in Phoenix of a new Google Cloud region that will complement its existing network of regions around the world. The intent is to bring Google Cloud technologies to local customers – from small, medium and large businesses to public sector entities and other organizations – to help them deliver digital services to their own users more reliably and at greater speed.
“Google’s investment in Arizona will be critical to the Mesa community and our state’s economy,” said Governor Katie Hobbs. “Arizona continues to attract global technology leaders because of our skilled workforce, dynamic economy and focus on innovation. We are proud to welcome Google to Arizona and look forward to the many opportunities this partnership will bring.”
In 2022, Google services provided more than $11.4 billion in economic activity for tens of thousands of Arizona businesses, nonprofits, publishers, creators and developers.
“We are proud to put down roots in Arizona with both the Mesa data center and the Phoenix cloud region. Data centers not only help keep digital services up and running for people and businesses, but they are economic anchors in the communities in which we operate. We appreciate the continued partnership with local leadership across the state,” said Joe Kava, vice president of Data Centers at Google.
Since 2017, Google has matched 100% of its annual electricity consumption with renewable energy. The company is currently pursuing net-zero emissions across its operations and value chain by 2030, supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to run all of its offices, data centers and cloud regions on carbon-free power every hour of every day.
An important piece of this clean energy goal is Google’s climate approach to data center cooling. This strategy prioritizes minimizing net climate impact and using natural resources responsibly, both today and in the future. In keeping with this approach, the Mesa data center will use air-cooled technology.
Beyond its operations, Google committed to improving the health of the local watersheds where its office campuses and data centers are located and replenishing 120% of the water it consumes, on average. As part of its commitment in Arizona, Google also announced a $150,000 donation to help fund the Salt River Project’s (SRP) effort focused on watershed restoration and wildfire risk reduction for surrounding rural communities. SRP is the largest water provider in the Phoenix metropolitan area and serves about 2.5 million people.
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