Vantage Data Centers likened the building of its Northern Nevada data center campus to moving a mountain.
Vantage in 2023 purchased 137 acres near the southeast corner of Electric Avenue and USA Parkway at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. Like much of the remaining land at TRIC, the site posed serious topographical challenges in creating a level pad to construct Vantage Data Center’s planned 1.1 million square-foot Northern Nevada campus.
Seth Pederson, senior vice president of sales for Vantage Data Centers, told NNBW the complex excavation work required removal and leveling a tremendous amount of dirt and rocks on the hilltop site.
“It was an incredible feat of construction and ingenuity to develop the parcel so we could build a data center,” Pederson said.
Vantage Data Centers operates 36 data center campuses on five continents. Its Northern Nevada campus will have 224 megawatts of power when fully built out. The first of four planned four-story buildings is already constructed and is expected to open in the second quarter of 2026. Vantage has already leased two buildings, or 128 megawatts, to an undisclosed tenant, Pederson said.
