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Recent Arizona data center news

• Jul 13, 2026

  APS Rate Case Moves to Next Phase Following Months-Long Hearing

  Arizona Public Service is describing its ongoing rate case review and proposed customer cost allocation changes. • The evidentiary hearing in APS’s rate case has concluded, and the ACC Administrative Law Judge will now review testimony, evidence, and legal arguments before issuing a Recommended Opinion and Order (ROO).
  • APS says the final decision is expected later this year; the current proposal includes a more than 45% rate increase for data centers, a formula rate for future costs, and a claim that customer bills will have zero impact this summer.

• Jul 13, 2026

  Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia

  Tract has announced a pre-application filing to develop the Tuckahoe Technology Park, an 872-acre master-planned data center campus in Goochland County, Virginia.

  • Filed a pre-application for a conditional use permit (CUP) through VALCO Goochland, LLC for land in the county’s technology overlay district (TOD West).
  • The proposed campus would include 12 buildings, reach 900MW at full build-out, and require more than $3 billion in investment; a community meeting is scheduled for July 23.
  • Tract says it aims to make sites zoned, powered, and shovel-ready for other developers, and county officials said negotiations have been ongoing since late 2023.
• Jul 10, 2026

  Employee-Owned Builder Plans Larger Camelback Corridor Office

  McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has announced plans to relocate its Phoenix regional office to a larger space in the Camelback Corridor.

  • The new office will be at 3133 E. Camelback Road, near 32nd Street and Camelback Road, and is expected to open in late 2027 after a redesign and renovation period.
  • McCarthy will occupy nearly 100,000 square feet; planning and construction will take 18–20 months. The company said the move supports its growing business and employee collaboration, and noted its Southwest region serves sectors including data centers, renewable energy, battery and energy storage, and water/wastewater.
• Jul 10, 2026

  Lightpath to provide fiber infrastructure for two new hyperscale data center campuses

  Lightpath has announced it will provide fiber infrastructure and multi-terabit capacity to support two hyperscale data center campuses under construction in the United States.

  • The two campuses are planned to exceed one gigawatt each and are located in Saline, Michigan and Port Washington, Wisconsin.
  • The Saline build is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year, while Port Washington is expected in Q2 2027; both are being delivered with an anchor hyperscale customer that was not named.
  • Chris Morley said Lightpath is partnering with hyperscalers to build new fiber infrastructure for AI-driven demand; Tim Haverkate said the company will deliver route-diverse, multi-terabit capacity across new construction, existing network assets, and partner fiber.
• Jul 8, 2026

  KBRA Assigns A+ Preliminary Rating to QTS Thunder Managing Issuer, LLC’s up to $3.6 Billion Senior Secured Debt

  KBRA has assigned an A+ preliminary rating to QTS Thunder Managing Issuer, LLC’s proposed $3.6 billion senior secured obligations, with a Stable Outlook.

  • KBRA said QTS and Blackstone are adding five newly constructed data centers to an existing master indenture structure (MIS), creating a portfolio of 12 fully contracted and stabilized data centers totaling 493.5MW across Richmond, Phoenix, Dallas, Columbus, and Manassas.
  • The contemplated incremental financing covers five assets totaling 214.5MW across Dallas, Phoenix, and Richmond; the new notes and any related senior secured loans will rank pari passu with approximately $4.3 billion of existing MIS indebtedness, bringing total senior secured indebtedness to up to approximately $7.9 billion.
• Jul 8, 2026

  Edged eyes 725MW data center campus in Pennsylvania

  Edged has announced updated plans for Project Atlas, a data center campus in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, scaling back from six buildings to three. - The revised proposal covers three buildings totaling about 1.5 million sq ft and 725MW, down from the original plan for six data centers and more than 5.1 million sq ft.

  • Edged says it will fund all power and infrastructure upgrades for the campus and plans to dedicate 160 acres to the Jordan Creek Greenway; the site spans about 410 acres at 2493 N. Cedar Crest Boulevard.
  • The article says up to $9 billion was originally set to be invested according to city documents, and notes the township planning commission is expected to discuss the project this week.
• Jul 8, 2026

  Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas

  Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.

  • Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
  • The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.
• Jul 6, 2026 · Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble

  ITIF has published a policy report arguing that data center water use can be managed through state-led regulation, standardized disclosure, watershed-based review, and targeted federal support.

  • The report says states should require facility-level water disclosures, use watershed-specific performance standards, and establish joint water-energy review for large data center loads.
  • It also recommends federal action on standardized metrics, procurement, and R&D rather than a national water mandate; examples cited include Nvidia Rubin liquid cooling and Microsoft zero-water cooling designs.
• Jul 2, 2026

  EdgeCore tops outs second data center in Virginia

  EdgeCore has announced it has topped out its 42MW AS02 facility at its Ashburn campus in Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia.

  • The AS02 building reached topping out this week at 45831 Maries Road and 1501 Moran Road; the campus will total 114MW of critical load across 685,000 square feet at full build-out.
  • EdgeCore said the milestone marks progress at its Ashburn campus and broader growth in northern and central Virginia; the first building, AS01 (72MW), topped out in September 2025 and is due live in November.
  • EdgeCore launched in 2018 and was acquired by Partners Group in 2022, which planned to invest up to $1.2 billion in the acquisition and build-out of data center sites.
  • The company also operates in Silicon Valley, Greater Phoenix, and Reno, Nevada, and is developing additional sites in Virginia, including planned campuses in Culpeper County and Louisa County.
• Jul 1, 2026

  The Hidden $15B Market Powering the Modern Internet

  Escrow.com published one of the first comprehensive public looks at the IPv4 secondary market.

  • Market overview: Escrow.com’s report profiles a now $15 billion global secondary market for IPv4 addresses, noting the global IPv4 pool exhaustion in 2011, continued acquisition by major holders, and that AWS alone acquired roughly 191 million IPv4 addresses (inventory valued at $7–8 billion) before shifting strategy in 2023.
  • Market mechanics and participants: The article highlights Brander Group’s role (facilitating 50–80 transfers per month, ~$1 billion cumulative transaction volume, and a single ~$89 million transaction), the critical role of secure escrow (Escrow.com) in enabling cross-border deals, and the involvement of registries ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/LACNIC and buyers such as cloud providers, ISPs, hosting companies, AI platforms, broadband operators, and enterprise networks.