Static snapshot. This site serves two different things: 1,853 data centres reported by OpenStreetMap contributors nationwide, and 13 sites Helios infers from Arizona parcel records, exported on July 29, 2026. The first is a map of what has been recorded; the second is an argued hypothesis with an evidence chain. This is a point-in-time export, not a live view. See meta.json or the methodology.

AZ

State · 78 data centres recorded in OpenStreetMap

Mapped facilities
78
on the map today
Floor area
0.96
km² across 46 buildings
Share of US load
1,052
MW, inferred upper bound
Water
2.29
million gal/day, inferred
17 of these 78 are not mapped as buildings, so no power figure is estimated for them. 12 are campus boundaries covering 5.82 km² of land, and 5 are sites mapped as under construction. The megawatt figure above divides a national total by building floor area, and the area of a land parcel is not floor area. A site still being built consumed none of the electricity that total measures. Both are counted here and left out of the estimate rather than folded into it, so this region's load is understated by however much those represent.

When these appeared on the map

observed, not surveyed
03467201820192020202120222023202420252026
Data centres recorded in OpenStreetMap at the end of each month. The hatched stretch is before 2017-01, when telecom=data_center was not yet in common use — the near-zero readings there describe the tag, not the country. This is a count of what has been mapped, and OpenStreetMap carries no construction dates.
11 of these 78 facilities do not appear in the curve. The chart counts facilities whose appearance was observed in OpenStreetMap's edit history; one mapped before 2012 has no creation edit to observe. The two numbers answer different questions — how many are on the map now, and how many were watched arriving — and neither is wrong.

What the grid here looks like

reported by OSM contributors
Substations
994
69 kV and above
Bulk substations
178
230 kV and above
Highest voltage
500
kV, present in this state
Generating capacity
35,853
MW across 261 plants

A facility drawing hundreds of megawatts connects at bulk transmission voltage, so the second figure matters more than the first: forty 69 kV yards are not a substitute for one 500 kV substation. 92 of the plants here carry no capacity tag, so the megawatt total is a floor rather than the region's output.

Proximity is not connection. Nothing here shows that any facility has contracted power from any of these substations. That gets settled in interconnection filings Helios cannot read, and in several regions those queues now run for years. A county showing no substations may have none mapped rather than none standing.

Largest named mapped records

by mapped area
NameOperatorMapped asMapped area m²Share MWFirst mapped
Meta Data CenterMetaCampus boundary1,379,7012025-06-20
Microsoft Goodyear Airpark Campusnot recordedCampus boundary1,074,798before 2012
Compass Datacenters Goodyear Campusnot recordedCampus boundary794,157before 2012
Microsoft Goodyear Campusnot recordedCampus boundary732,674before 2012
Google Data CenterGoogleCampus boundary657,4712025-06-20
Stream Data Centers PHXA Campusnot recordedUnder construction473,238before 2012
Aligned Data Centersnot recordedUnder construction465,9242026-06-15
Compass PHX IInot recordedUnder construction460,3462026-06-15
Apple Mesa Data CenterAppleCampus boundary370,1172025-12-08
NTT PH1 DatacenterNTTCampus boundary293,1932025-02-04
Stack Infrastructure PHX01 Campusnot recordedUnder construction277,662before 2012
Vantage Data Centers AZ1 Campusnot recordedCampus boundary178,744before 2012
Vantage Data Centers AZ2 Campusnot recordedUnder construction149,195before 2012
EdgeCore Digitalnot recordedCampus boundary148,8782025-12-08
Apple Data CenterApple Inc.Building124,329136.32018-03-07
Iron Mountain AZP-1Iron MountainCampus boundary117,2302025-02-07
EdgeConneX PHX02 Data CenterEdgeConneXBuilding60,76866.62023-12-16
Aligned Energy Data Centernot recordedBuilding47,64252.22024-07-09
Iron Mountain AZP-2Iron MountainCampus boundary43,0512020-12-29
Stream Data Centers PHX-1not recordedBuilding38,39242.12023-10-14
Digital Realty Phoenix PHX15Digital RealtyBuilding27,37630.02023-11-29
PHX-11MicrosoftBuilding23,12025.32023-04-12
PHX-12MicrosoftBuilding22,96025.2before 2012
PHX-13MicrosoftBuilding22,95925.2before 2012
PHX-14MicrosoftBuilding22,95725.2before 2012
PHX-10MicrosoftBuilding22,87125.12023-04-12
Vantage Data CentersVantage Data CentersBuilding22,16524.32024-05-16
QTSQuality Technology ServicesBuilding15,09516.52024-09-15
QTSQuality Technology ServicesBuilding14,54115.92024-09-15
Iron Mountain Records StorageIron MountainBuilding13,54814.82024-01-29
CyrusOne PHX8not recordedBuilding12,89214.12023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX7not recordedBuilding12,88314.12023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX1CyrusOneBuilding12,76114.02023-11-29
EdgeCorenot recordedBuilding10,48911.52020-05-28
Flexential Phoenix - Deer ValleyFlexentialBuilding10,22211.22024-08-15
CyrusOne PHX4not recordedBuilding10,12211.12023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX3not recordedBuilding9,99811.02023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX4CyrusOneBuilding9,57010.52023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX5CyrusOneBuilding9,56510.52023-11-29
CyrusOne PHX6CyrusOneBuilding9,13810.02023-11-29

“First mapped” is when OpenStreetMap recorded the facility, not when it was built — OpenStreetMap carries no construction dates. Mapped area means a building floor plate, campus boundary, or construction polygon according to the “Mapped as” column; those quantities are never added together. The megawatt column appears only for buildings and is their floor-area share of a reported national total, not a measurement.