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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Goodyear · Maricopa County · Arizona
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 8 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000979
What the source record says
Near Citrus and Indian School roads, Goodyear (address: 3785 Citrus Rd per industry sources). Two-million sq ft of existing or under-construction data centers. investmentUsd is reported campus value; land-only spend is additional. Coordinates approximate; exact site is west Goodyear near airport. First land purchase corrected to April 2019 / 150 acres / $37.11M per DCD primary source; intermediate purchases brought pre-2025 footprint to approximately 450 acres before the 100-acre 2025 expansion to 550+ total.
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
- 2019-04 · reported proposed
Initial 150-acre land acquisition near Goodyear Airport for $37.11M (per Data Center Dynamics primary source; record originally stated 272 acres/$42M/2018-01 which is not supported by any source found).
- 2022-01 · reported under construction
First 290,000 sq ft building developed; second 250,000 sq ft building under construction
- 2025-01 · reported under construction
Additional 100 acres acquired for $131M from First Industrial Realty Trust; third 250,000 sq ft building planned; total footprint 550+ acres
- 2026-08 · reported operational
Microsoft's own Greater Phoenix community page describes Goodyear as an operating datacenter ("Microsoft operates datacenters in El Mirage and Goodyear"); the source does not disclose an in-service date, so this event is dated to confirmation.
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft purchases 100 acres next to Goodyear campus · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft Builds World-Class Datacenter Campus in Goodyear · City of Goodyear
- Microsoft, Goodyear Update Development Agreement · AZBEX
- Microsoft — Greater Phoenix, Arizona datacenter community · Microsoft
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-goodyear-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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