Arizona land developer Vermaland, LLC unveiled plans for a $33 billion data center industrial park in Pinal County that would become the largest such development in the United States, positioning the Phoenix-Tucson corridor to compete directly with Northern Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” for tech industry investment.
The 3,300-acre complex would support up to 3 gigawatts of power capacity, rivaling the scale of major metropolitan markets and capitalizing on Arizona’s emergence as the nation’s fourth-largest data center market by total inventory.
The project comes as data center construction reaches record levels nationwide, with more than 6.35 Gigawatts of capacity under construction across North America as of late 2024, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE. Phoenix alone saw 67% inventory growth in 2024, outpacing all primary markets except Atlanta…