Summary: Microsoft paid $37m for a 147 acre site in Goodyear, Arizona. The company already owns a sizeable chunk of land in the area, having quietly picked up a 279 acre plot 10 miles away for $48m last year. That project has been kept under wraps but Microsoft has now disclosed it plans to build data centres on both sites. Site plans for the original location show two buildings with the potential for three more. The first is scheduled for the development of a 245k sqft building with 3k sqft of office space. The second, not yet scheduled for development, will be about 243k sqft with 2k sqft of office space. The Goodyear suburb of Phoenix is proving popular: this is the fourth large-scale land acquisition this year although the first by a hyperscaler. Third party operators Compass, Stream and Vantage were the other buyers.
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