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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Novva Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Mesa · Maricopa County · Arizona
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001061
What the source record says
Located near Ellsworth and Warner roads, southeast Mesa. Five data halls, 1.3M sq ft data hall space, 200,000 sq ft office, two-phase buildout over ~10 years. Sixth Novva campus nationally, first in Arizona. Architectural design honors Hohokam heritage. Coordinates approximate. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked Novva's own announcement page (2026-09-10); it markets design amenities ('dedicated acreage offering public pathways for the community') but documents no actual public hearing, resident feedback, or official statement of support/opposition. No community-reception record found in this source.
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
- 2024-08 · reported proposed
Novva won 165-acre Mesa state land auction for $62.7M; campus previously filed under name Project Borealis
- 2025-01 · reported under construction
Construction underway; Phase 1 (96MW critical IT load) targeting late 2026 opening
Sources and attribution
- Novva Data Centers Announces New Campus in Mesa · Novva Data Centers
- Novva confirmed as behind Project Borealis data center campus in Phoenix · Data Center Dynamics
- City of Mesa case ZON24-00291 ('Project Borealis') Project Narrative — 'Each of the data hall buildings will utilize a closed-loop water cooling system... Crucially, no evaporative methods are used for reducing air temperature'
- City of Mesa Planning Division staff report, ZON24-00291 — 'Site Size: 159± acres', parcel 304-31-141
- Novva Data Centers Announces New Campus in Mesa · PR Newswire / Novva Data Centers
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID novva-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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