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Centersquare: Phoenix - (PHX1 - Mesa)

1301 West University Drive · Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Centersquare: Phoenix - (PHX1 - Mesa) is an operating data center in Maricopa County, AZ, operated by CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera). DataCentersExposed has documented a 57,992 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera)
Operator
CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera)
Est. capacity
~10-25 MW
Footprint
57,992 sq ft
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

PHX1 is an operating colocation data center in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, run by CenterSquare, the operator formerly known as Cyxtera. Public records put its footprint at 57,992 square feet. No ultimate parent above CenterSquare is disclosed in available records.

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

No recent coverage found for this facility.

Data-center discussions in Maricopa County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Phoenix Committee
Jun 14, 2023 · 1 data-center mention
Chandler City Council
Oct 14, 2021 · 1 data-center mention
Chandler City Council
Sep 14, 2020 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Arizona reported $38.5M in Computer Data Center TPT/Use Tax Exemption (Deduction Code 565; A.R.S. § 41-1519) for FY2025 (Arizona Department of Revenue, Office of Economic Research and Analysis). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Arizona subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~106.6K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~63.4K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~43.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 MW (interconnection capacity): 2.5 L/kWh cooling (arid climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
47
O3
Good
39
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$69.3K
People of color
63%
Below poverty
8%
Tract population
5,341

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Emerson Elementary School in Mesa, is 0.5 mi from this site (735 students). 12 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.