The facility is expected to come online in 2026, and will join Novva’s four other data centers in providing one gigawatts of power by 2028.
Novva Data Centers is joining the rush to build out capacity in Nevada with its new 60-megawatt project outside Reno completed this week.
The 300,000-square-foot data center is centered in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, which is located along Interstate 80 just outside Reno. The facility is expected to come online in 2026, and will join Novva’s four other data center projects as the race to build out AI infrastructure continues to accelerate. Together the facilities will have one gigawatts of capacity online by 2028, the company announced on Tuesday.
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West Jordan, Utah-based Novva Data Centers acquired the 20-acre site in 2022. It is the company’s fourth completed data center and one of many being built near Reno.
The company bills itself as a hyper-scalable colocation data center provider with sustainably engineered facilities that can deliver turnkey data infrastructure solutions at a low cost of power.
In a press release, Novva said the new facility will feature high efficiency water-free and direct-to-chip cooling. The facility will also prioritize sustainability with drought-resistant landscaping and pre-cast exterior panels.
The Reno campus will have 54-inch raised flooring to aid in air-flow cooling six, 10-megawatt data halls with 30,000 feet of space, as well as an onsite, 100-megawatt electrical substation that can provide scalable power from NV Energy.
It will also feature Novva’s robot patrol “dog” – a Boston Dynamics Spot robotic dog with added AI capabilities.
Novva has previously stated that the robots run pre-determined courses throughout the data center to “collect data, monitor equipment, and report any unusual activity.” This includes using heat-sensing capabilities to alert staff to any potential hardware problems.
The “dogs” – which run 24 hours a day, seven days a week for continuous surveillance – are integrated with Novva’s security database, which gives each the ability to “scan visitors’ faces and check them against the company’s list of authorized personnel.”
“Recognized visitors are greeted by name via a generated audio file,” the company stated in a September press release. “GPS marks unrecognized visitors’ locations, and their pictures are sent to the control center for further action.”
In March, Novva Data Centers won $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the construction of its 175-megawatt facility in Salt Lake City.
Novva calls it a “future-proof” facility, built with sustainability in mind and placing client needs first. The financing should see the 76-megawatt second phase, and the 72-megawatt third phase of the campus fully complete by 2026. The 1 million-square-foot facility will be one of the largest direct-to-chip cooled AI data centers in the world, the company stated in a press announcement.
