SPARKS, NEV. — Vantage Data Centers is entering the Nevada market with a new $3 billion campus in Sparks, located outside of Reno in Storey County. The campus, dubbed NV1, will sit on 137 acres and offer a total 224 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load.
Upon completion, the NV1 campus will house four multi-story data centers totaling 1.1 million square feet. The property will be designed with densities ranging from 360 watts to 720 watts per square foot in order to accommodate the “unique needs of AI deployments,” according to Vantage.
Vantage will utilize a closed-loop chiller system to reduce water usage, with the ability to employ both traditional air-cooled compute loads and liquid cooling to support next-generation GPU (graphics processing unit) loads. Vantage is aiming to achieve LEED certification for the development.
Vantage expects to employ more than 1,200 individuals across the construction and ongoing operations of the campus. The first two data centers to come on line at NV1 are fully preleased to undisclosed tenants. The first facility is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2026.
NV1 will be situated within Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, which also houses Tesla Gigafactory 1 and operations for tech companies such as Google, Blockchains and Chewy. Other industrial tenants at the 107,000-acre park include FedEx, Walmart, PetSmart, Switch and Tire Rack, among others.
Denver-based Vantage owns and operates data centers in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, with a global network of 36 data center campuses generating nearly 2.9 gigawatts (GW) of critical IT load. Sparks/Reno represents the eighth U.S. market of operation for Vantage.
“Nevada provided us a strategic opportunity to accelerate time-to-market for these customers while supporting the local economy through the creation of long-term jobs and tax revenue,” says Dana Adams, president of Vantage’s North America division. “The warm welcome we’ve received from the state is overwhelming, and we look forward to advancing the region’s growing digital hub together.”
— John Nelson