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Phoenix 3

QTS Data Centers · Glendale · 17408 W Camelback Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

Track Phoenix 3

Part of the tracked campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale).

The story of Phoenix 3inherited from campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)
Announced capex
$255M
Land owner
First Industrial Realty Trust
Derived
Cost per MW
$340K/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterArizona(149)

The deal

Inherited from campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale).

financier
Blackstone
utility
Arizona Public Service (APS) · Glendale/Loop 303 corridor; service agreement not confirmed.
developer
QTS Data Centers · Owned by Blackstone.
land owner
First Industrial Realty Trust · Sold the 375-acre Glendale parcel to QTS in July 2022 for $255.3M

Financial structure

Inherited from campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale).

Land acquisition (375-acre parcel)
$255M. Purchased from First Industrial Realty Trust journalist report

Power

Inherited from campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale). Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
WECC
Interconnection

On-site ~29-acre substation, 0.75 GW grid interconnect, Announced. Dedicated substation planned to serve the campus.

Facility record

operating

Status

hyperscale

Type

QTS Data Centers

Operator

Glendale

Location

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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q1 2023 · not yet energized

2018-06-17Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-09-09Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-17Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-05-26Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-07-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale). How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

  • record: Phoenix 3 (reported) · source
  • status: operating (reported) · source
  • streetAddress: 17408 W Camelback Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 (reported) · source · DC1 primary; DC2/9/13/14 at 17428/17236/17316/17336 W Camelback Rd

Timeline

  1. Aug 2026
    First recorded
    Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
  2. Sep 2026
    Current: operating

Facility-tier record. For campus-scale announced-vs-energized tracking see the data center index. DEPLOY is neutral infrastructure: what is claimed, what is verified, and when.

Common questions

What is Phoenix 3?
Phoenix 3 is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Glendale. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Phoenix 3?
QTS Data Centers operates Phoenix 3, per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Phoenix 3 operating?
Phoenix 3 is recorded as operating on the DEPLOY registry. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Phoenix 3?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every rendered fact shows its source: this is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Phoenix 3: data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/qts-phoenix-3-glendale-az

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