Real estate firm Goodman Group has broken ground on a new data center in Los Angeles, California.
Located in Vernon, the LAX01 facility is set on a 5.6-acre site, formerly home to the Farmer John meat-packing plant. It is set to provide 32MW of IT capacity across three stories once fully fitted out.
The data center will be powered shell-ready by mid-2026. Further specifications of the facility have not yet been shared.
In a recent LinkedIn post, the company said: “Strategically located just four miles from Downtown Los Angeles and One Wilshire, LAX01 offers ultra-low latency of 0.35ms RTT, a strong fiber ecosystem, and scalable solutions for hyperscale and colo customers.”
Goodman is an integrated property group with operations throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, the UK, and the Americas. It has projects in operation or development across Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, and Japan.
Earlier this year, the company announced plans to raise AU$4 billion (US$2.5bn) that will partly be used to fuel its data center build-out.
Data centers currently make up 46 percent of Goodman’s AU$13 billion (US$8.2bn) development work in progress. The company claims to have a global power bank of 5GW across 13 cities, of which 2.6GW is secured and 2.4GW is in the “advanced stages” of procurement.
The City of Vernon in Los Angeles has been vying for a piece of the data center pie. Mayor Judith Merlo said, “Vernon’s streamlined permitting process, combined with affordable and reliable power, provides the backbone for data center development. By attracting emerging technologies like data centers, we are strengthening our economy in a way that is forward-thinking.”
Los Angeles is home to the likes of Digital Realty, Centersquare, Hivelocity, Evocative, Prime, CoreSite, DataBank, Cogent, Telehouse, Lumen, and Equinix.
