Company expanding in Sin City with smaller, denser buildings compared to traditional design
US operator Switch is expanding its Las Vegas data center footprint with smaller, denser facilities.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the company is developing several new facilities focused on hosting AI hardware.
The company is developing new facilities at the southwest corner of the Jones Boulevard-215 Beltway interchange in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, near its existing cluster of data centers.
According to records with Clark County, the company aims to develop two buildings spanning 199,000 sq ft (18,485 sq ft) and 228,000 sq ft (21,180 sqm).
Construction work has already begun.
Jason Hoffman, chief strategy officer at Switch, told the Review-Journal that the company is building AI factories that are smaller than Switch’s typical data centers in Las Vegas but offer higher densities.
Further details weren’t shared.
Switch’s Core Campus, located in Las Vegas, Nevada, will have up to 495MW of power upon full build-out.
Switch's traditional proprietary designs feature hot-aisle containment, but the company is already offering liquid cooling in Las Vegas; it is hosting an Nvidia GB300 NVL72 deployment on behalf of AI cloud provider CoreWeave.
Founded in 2000, Switch operates its large 'Prime' data center campuses in Austin, Texas; Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Atlanta, Georgia. Over the last year, it has filed to expand further in Austin and Atlanta.
DigitalBridge, alongside IFM Investors, took Switch private in an $11 billion deal in December 2022. Australian pension fund Aware Super invested $500 million into Switch in 2023, but since then, the company has reportedly been exploring going public again.
