In October 2015, Apple took operational control of a former factory of one of its suppliers, GT Advanced Technologies, who had filed for bankruptcy, and began the process of converting the building into a data center. By March 2017, Apple had opened and began servicing customers out of its Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona data center, which is now home to Apple’s “global data command center”.

Apple’s Mesa data center is located at 3740 S Signal Butte Road in Mesa, Arizona and is situated on 83 acres of land. Following $2 billion of investment by Apple, this 1.3 million square foot data center serves as a key logistics and operations hub, supporting all of Apple’s data centers around the world. The facility is powered by its own solar farm on-site and houses around 150 full-time Apple employees.