EdgeCore Breaks Ground on 1.5 MSF Data Center Campus

Rendering of EdgeCore’s future data center campus in Reno, Nev. Image courtesy of EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has broken ground on its first data center campus near Reno, Nev., in response to growing demand and lack of space in California. The project was designed to feature an on-site substation and two data centers totaling 1.5 million square feet of space, capable of supporting 216 megawatt (MW) of critical IT load. Completion is expected in late 2025.

EdgeCore’s development is taking shape within the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, a 107,000-acre park that includes 30,000 acres of developable land. Located roughly 9 miles east of Reno in Storey County, along Interstate 80, the campus is home to Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 and Google‘s $600 million data center, as well as to a 130-megawatt data center operated by Switch.

EdgeCore’s first data center campus near Reno

The LEED-designed property will have a close-looped chilled water system that uses very little water to cool its facilities. As an added benefit for customers seeking network diversity and resiliency, EdgeCore has procured a 564-count fiber route connecting this initial campus with the main exchange point located at 200 South Virginia in Reno, a nine-story office and data center building.

The design supports N, N+1 and 2N infrastructure configurations and will use Cummins generators and lithium-ion UPS systems. Development of the substation has already begun and EdgeCore has completed an agreement with NV Energy for utility power to be delivered to the site by the second quarter of 2025.

Clint Heiden, chief commercial officer of Denver-based EdgeCore, said in a prepared statement the Reno location lowers total cost of ownership by 30 percent compared to deployment in the Bay Area and expects more businesses seeking data center space near the West Coast to consider Reno.

More in the pipeline

The Reno campus is the fourth development project initiated by EdgeCore this year. In January, the company broke ground on the first of two data centers in Santa Clara, Calif. Upon completion, the Silicon Valley LEED-designed campus will support 72 MW of critical load across 540,000 square feet.

In March, plans for a three-story, 286,000-square-foot data center capable of supporting 36 MW of critical load in Ashburn, Va., were revealed. A month later, EdgeCore said it was expanding its data center campus in Mesa, Ariz., in the Phoenix market. At full build-out, the campus will be capable of supporting a minimum of 200 MW of critical load.

EdgeCore was acquired in November 2022 by global private markets firm Partners Group, which is planning to invest up to $1.2 billion to fund the acquisition and buildout of existing and future data center sites.

A growing data center market

Reno is projected to be the fourth-fastest growing data center market in the United States between 2022 and 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent, according to a June report from 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. The report cited the sub-three second latency to the Bay Area and low-cost utility power, including renewable energy options.

In May, Novva Data Centers announced it would build its second facility in Nevada and fourth overall on a 20-acre site in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. The 60MW facility is expected to come online in late 2024 and will feature a 300,000-square-foot data center with six data halls. NV Energy will provide an on-site 100MW power station for the facility.