Greater Phoenix: The perfect climate for mission critical operations
As a result of its stable climate, Greater Phoenix offers the potential to reduce the amount of energy necessary to operate mission critical operations. This, coupled with a low risk of natural disasters, make the region a prime location for mission critical operations.
Reduced Risks
The low chance for natural disasters positions Greater Phoenix as a top choice for data centers.
Power Your Business
The Palo Verde Nuclear Plant is the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S. with a 3,937 MW capacity.
Sources: APS; US Energy Information Administration
Diverse Energy Supply
The region’s diverse energy supply includes coal, nuclear, natural gas and renewable.
Greater Phoenix: By the Numbers
5th
Greater Phoenix is the 5th largest data center market in the nation
CBRE
13%
From 2015 to 2020, employment grew 13.0% in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale region, compared to the national growth rate of 3.1%
EMSI 2021 Q1
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Greater Phoenix power customers experience less than an hour of outage time per year, among lowest in the country.
Energy Information Administration
Why Greater Phoenix? There’s an abundance of employees and competitive labor costs.
Perfect Weather
Due to the mild weather the majority of the year, Greater Phoenix creates the availability for economizer, or “free cooling” strategies, eliminating the need for expensive mechanical refrigeration.
The Benefits of Mild Weather
With cabinet arrangements using enclosed hot aisles, the region’s climate offers:
• Reduced chiller operations up to 40% of the year
• Free air side cooling up to 38% of the year
• Water side free cooling (or no chiller operation) up to 41% of the year
Source: SmithGroup
Low Catastrophic Risk
Should a facility operate with direct evaporative cooling strategies, the data center can potentially operate up to 70 percent of the year without the use of chillers.
With low catastrophic risk, Greater Phoenix is an ideal climate for mission critical operations.
Source: SmithGroup
Data centers in Greater Phoenix
- Colocation Firms
- Aligned Data Centers
- Compass Data Centers
- CyrusOne
- Cyxtera
- DataBank
- Digital Realty Trust
- EdgeConneX
- EdgeCore Data Centers
- Flexential
- H5 Data Centers
INAP
Iron Mountain Data Centers
OneNeck IT Solutions
Phoenix NAP
QTS Data Centers
Stream Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers - Enterprise Data Centers
- Alaska USA Federal Credit Union
American Express
Apple
CenturyLink
Charles Schwab
CVS Caremark
GoDaddy
Microsoft
PSCU
Safeway
Verizon
