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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- Mesa · Maricopa County · Arizona
- Official metro area
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 31 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000078
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Salt River Project (SRP)
- Power source
- Solar
- Announced investment
- $2 billion
- Announced jobs
- 150 permanent
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2015
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Foreign-Trade Zone Subzone 221A — confers an Arizona property-tax reclassification; no dollar value is published for this site · U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board / City of Mesa (FTZ 221 grantee) · 2014 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Apple partnered with SRP in 2014 to site the 282-acre, 50MW Bonnybrooke solar farm in Florence, AZ, operational December 2016.
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- Land area: The source note says acreage is not disclosed in the fetched sources.
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 · source-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
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000078
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Mesa, AZ · Maricopa (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Apple
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2015
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2018 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Salt River Project (SRP)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Solar
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $2 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 150 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Foreign-Trade Zone Subzone 221A — confers an Arizona property-tax reclassification; no dollar value is published for this site · U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board / City of Mesa (FTZ 221 grantee) · 2014
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-31
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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