McCarthy Tops Out Project at Vantage Data Centers’ Campus outside Reno, Nevada

General contractor McCarthy Building Companies completed the topping out milestone for Vantage Data Centers’ second of four planned data centers on its NV1 Campus outside of Reno in Storey County, Nevada. With representatives from Storey County and Vantage leadership in attendance, the project marked significant progress on the NV12 facility, the second 64-megawatt data center on the campus.

Phase I of the campus provides hyperscalers and large cloud providers with 128 MW of combined critical IT capacity across its NV11 and NV12 facilities. The campus has created more than 1,200 local construction jobs and has already generated significant local economic impact. Just recently, the campus reached more than 1.1 million labor hours on site since breaking ground in May 2024, with zero lost time incidents, through a campus-wide commitment to safe construction practices and innovative methods.

The 260,000-square-foot, two-story NV12 facility utilizes liquid-to-liquid cooling, similar to NV11, that operates on a closed loop chilled water system to properly and efficiently cool the systems requiring only an initial fill. This sustainable design is common across Vantage’s data centers and represents the developer’s commitment to sustainable operations and long-term reliability.

Following turnover of NV11, NV12 will begin to turn over phased portions of the facility beginning in December 2027 to allow for customers to begin operations prior to final completion in early 2029.

As construction progress continues, McCarthy will be piloting the use of an HP Robot to map out the layout of NV12’s walls, blockouts and backing. Following the robot’s success on multiple McCarthy healthcare projects, the team will use the robot to layout all elements on the concrete slab based on the existing Building Information Model layout. This method allows for greater efficiency and precision as the facility’s core components have already been digitally modeled to the site’s conditions.

Both NV11 and NV12 are being constructed by McCarthy in a Design-Build effort with Corgan, serving as the campus architect. Key Design-Build trade partners include Amfabsteel, Chavez-Grieves, Rosendin Electric, Apollo Mechanical Contractors, Salas O’Brien, Integrated Fire and Security Solutions, Cosco Fire Protection, and Wood Rogers Inc.