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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- Mesa · Maricopa County · Arizona
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 31 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000078
What the source record says
Apple's Global Data and Command Center at 3740 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, Maricopa County — a converted former GT Advanced sapphire plant (~1.3M sq ft), operational in the ~2016-2018 window, a $2B investment (Mesa Now / Data Center Knowledge), solar-powered. Functions as Apple's worldwide data-center monitoring/command hub. Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names Arizona among states for continued data-center capacity expansion. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed; acreage not disclosed in fetched sources. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the Signal Butte Rd address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2018 · reported operational
Operational Global Command Center (converted GT Advanced sapphire plant); $2B, 1.3M sq ft; latest expansion completed April 2018 per Data Center Knowledge.
Sources and attribution
- Grand opening for Apple's Arizona Data and Global Command Center in Mesa — $2B, 1.3M sq ft · Mesa Now (Mesa economic development)
- Step Inside Apple's Data Center in Arizona — 1.3M sq ft, latest expansion completed April 2018 · Data Center Knowledge
- Apple plants crowning achievement for renewable energy in Mesa (Arizona Technology Council)
- Apple is building a solar-powered data 'command center' in Arizona (Quartz)
- Federal Register, FTZ Board docket S-5-2014 — 'The proposed subzone (83.17 acres) is located at 3740 S. Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, Arizona.'
- Cult of Mac — 'Approximately 150 people work at the Mesa facility.'
- Federal Register — approval of FTZ Subzone 221A for the Mesa site
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID apple-mesa-az. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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