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Arizona Data Center Investment Tracker
Arizona carries 11 named site commitments worth at least $25.4B in disclosed capital, set against 11 projects blocked, delayed or restricted, 5 cancelled or blocked and 3 delayed or under moratorium, as of October 8, 2026.
Arizona
AZ
10 capital providers on record
Named sites
11
Site-level commitments the atlas records in Arizona
Disclosed capital floor
$25.4B
Sum of sites with a stated dollar figure. Sites without one are listed, not counted
Disclosed capacity
1,416 MW
Sum of sites with a stated megawatt figure
Blocked, delayed or restricted
11
$34.1B of announced capital in those projects
Who is investing
Who is investing in data centers in Arizona?
The largest disclosed commitments in Arizona are Tract (Tract Goodyear/Buckeye project, $14.0B); Amazon (AWS) (Project Blue, Tucson, $3.6B); Prime Data Centers (Prime PHX01, Avondale, $3.0B). Together the 11 named sites here carry a disclosed floor of $25.4B; sites with no dollar figure are listed but not counted.
Named sites
Named data center sites in Arizona
Each row is one site-level commitment with its capital provider, the figure the source states, and the status the source gives it. Capital is shown as one compact figure; the verbatim wording is in the row's sources.
| Site | Capital provider | Place | Capital | MW | Status | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tract Goodyear/Buckeye project withdrawn May 2024 |
Tract | n.a. | $14.0B | n.a. | withdrawn | |
Project Blue, Tucson Rejected; Tucson subsequently adopted new datacenter approval rules (reported August 2026) |
Amazon (AWS) | Tucson | $3.6B | n.a. | rejected | |
Prime PHX01, Avondale announced May 2026 |
Prime Data Centers | Avondale | $3.0B | 240 | announced | |
Copia Power site west of Phoenix |
The Carlyle Group | n.a. | ~$2.0B | n.a. | construction | |
Goodyear data center campus |
Microsoft (Azure) | Goodyear | $1.5B | n.a. | expansion | |
Mesa data center Online as of January 2025 announcement |
Meta Platforms with Salt River Project |
Mesa | ≥$1.0B | n.a. | operating | |
El Mirage land acquisition |
Microsoft (Azure) | El Mirage | $258M | n.a. | announced | |
Tonopah film studio, retail and data center complex (data center and technology campus) Zoning approved by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in September 2026 (exact date not stated); reported 30 September 2026; single outlet |
Arizona Land Consulting (Anita Verma-Lallian) with Camelback Productions |
Tonopah (unincorporated), Maricopa County | n.a. | 1,000 | approved | |
Vantage Phoenix campus |
Vantage Data Centers | Phoenix | n.a. | 176 | operating | |
Data center site, southeast corner of 7th Avenue and Grant Street, Phoenix Sale recorded 17 September 2026; reported 22 September 2026; single outlet (Phoenix Business Journal, syndicated by ABC15) |
GI Partners with LKY Development (seller) |
Phoenix, Maricopa County | n.a. | n.a. | proposed | |
Grande Valley Industrial Data Center Campus Conditional use permit approved 6-1 on Thursday 1 October 2026 |
Not disclosed (applicant Colliers Engineering & Design) with Bloom Energy (on-site fuel cell power), Gammage & Burnham (applicant counsel) |
Casa Grande, Pinal County | n.a. | n.a. | approved |
Capital at risk
Blocked, delayed or restricted in Arizona
Every project in Arizona on the atlas's capital-at-risk record: the action taken, who took it, and the announced capital affected. Restarts and reversals are recorded with the same weight as blocks.
| Project | Developer | Jurisdiction | Action | Capital | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Goodyear/Buckeye campus withdrawn May 2024 |
Tract | Maricopa County | Withdrawn |
$14.0B | |
Project Range cancelled May 1, 2024 |
Tract | Maricopa County | Tract withdrew its $14B 'Project Range' application for a 30-building, 5.6M sq ft data center campus on ~1,000 acres near Yuma and Perryville roads in unincorporated Maricopa County. |
$14.0B | |
Project Blue rejected Aug 2025; project continued outside city limits per source narrative |
Beale Infrastructure (AWS-linked) | Tucson / Pima County | City Council voted unanimously to end annexation negotiations Aug 5-6 2025 |
$3.6B | |
Chandler AI data center (Queen Creek and Dobson roads) rejected Rejected 11 December 2025 |
Not named in reporting | City of Chandler | The Chandler City Council voted 7-0 on 11 December 2025 against a proposed $2.5 billion AI data center on 40 acres near Queen Creek and Dobson roads. Neighbors cited noise already heard from existing data centers in the Price corridor. Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had lobbied the council for the project in October 2025. |
$2.5B | |
Arizona three-year pause on data center sales tax exemptions paused Budget deal announced 9 June 2026; pause runs three years |
n.a. | State of Arizona (Governor and Legislature) | Gov. Katie Hobbs and legislative leaders announced a budget deal on Tuesday 9 June 2026 that includes a three-year pause on tax exemptions for new data centers. The exemption, enacted in 2013, lasts up to 10 years for qualifying projects. The pause does not affect data centers already receiving the breaks, and companies can still build without them. Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh said canceling existing incentives would have led to litigation. |
n.a. | |
Hualapai Indian Reservation data center moratorium moratorium Enacted August 2026 |
n.a. | Hualapai Indian Reservation | Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona, enacted a local data center moratorium or ban, recorded in SAVRN's moratorium tracker as dated August 2026. Tribal Council passed resolution opposing data center construction on reservation land, citing water scarcity on the Colorado River, light pollution, and wastewater concerns. Tribal sovereignty makes this effectively a ban on all reservation land. The measure has no end date by design. |
n.a. | |
La Osa Energy Center rejected Rejected 4-1 on 26 August 2026 |
Vermaland | Pinal County | The Pinal County Board of Supervisors rejected the rezoning 4-1 on 26 August 2026. Vermaland had cut the project to roughly 80 percent of an earlier proposal of 59 data center buildings and 3 GW of energy demand, moved buildings several miles from neighbors, offered 22 additional development conditions between May and August 2026, and proposed a 600 acre-foot cap on fresh water, roughly 200 million gallons, with potential offset through effluent purchases from the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District. Supervisor Jeff Serdy said he voted the will of the residents. Neighbors raised aquifer depletion, air quality, noise, wildlife and property value concerns and questioned whether power could be sourced reliably from more than 100 miles away. |
n.a. | |
Marana data center rezoning referendum petitions (Beale Infrastructure) litigation Rezoning January 2026; petitions rejected February 2026; Superior Court arguments 27 April 2026; Court of Appeals affirmance reported 1 October 2026 (ruling date not stated; single outlet for the appellate ruling) |
Beale Infrastructure (Fremont Peak Properties) | Town of Marana; Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two | The Marana Town Council unanimously rezoned two adjacent agricultural parcels for a data center in January 2026. In February 2026 the town clerk rejected two referendum petitions because the copies circulated to voters lacked required exhibits with the legal descriptions, and a Pima County Superior Court judge later upheld the rejection and denied a request by Beale subsidiary Fremont Peak Properties to compel the town to accept the petitions' withdrawal. A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two, unanimously affirmed the judgment for the town, leaving the zoning approvals in place with no ballot vote. |
n.a. | |
Pima County 120-day data center moratorium (unincorporated areas) moratorium Approved 3-2 on 22 September 2026; 120 days, extendable; Goldwater Institute demand letter to rescind sent 28 September 2026 |
n.a. | Pima County Board of Supervisors | On Tuesday 22 September 2026 the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 for a resolution barring new data center projects in unincorporated areas from moving forward for 120 days, with a possible extension, while the county writes zoning requirements and studies air, water, land use and cumulative impacts. An amendment limited it to projects that had not yet submitted permits, which exempts Beale Infrastructure's Project Blue and the proposed 160-acre Project Gravel south of Tucson. This is separate from the City of Tucson's August 2026 data center ordinance (row 337). On 28 September 2026 the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian legal advocacy group, sent the Board of Supervisors a demand letter asking it to rescind the moratorium immediately, arguing that Arizona law allows county moratoria only for a shortage of essential public facilities or a compelling need defined as a clear and imminent danger to public health and safety, and that the pause raises claims under the state's Private Property Rights Protection Act. The supervisors who voted against the moratorium had cited legal concerns. No lawsuit had been reported as of 30 September 2026. |
n.a. | |
Project Blue energy service agreement with Tucson Electric Power (rehearing suit) litigation ACC approval December 2025; suit filed about a month later; hearing 24 September 2026, no ruling |
Project Blue developers; Tucson Electric Power counterparty | Maricopa County Superior Court / Arizona Corporation Commission | Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued to force a rehearing of the 10-year energy service agreement between Tucson Electric Power and Project Blue about a month after the Arizona Corporation Commission approved it in December 2025, arguing the city of Tucson and others were denied due process, cost-shifting risks were ignored and the contract lets TEP and Project Blue set future rates without commission approval. Judge Randall H. Warner heard another round of arguments on 24 September 2026, discussed adding a stipulation making commission approval of rate changes explicit, and did not rule on the rehearing request. |
n.a. | |
Tucson large-scale data center ordinance other Approved 6-1, reported 10 August 2026 |
n.a. | City of Tucson | The Tucson City Council approved 6-1 its first large-scale data center rules. Facilities over 25,000 square feet or 20 MW need mayor and council approval and must sit half a mile from residential areas and 1,000 feet from office or commercial uses, with a 50-foot height cap. The rules also require electricity availability verification, energy source disclosure and compliance with potable water limits. |
n.a. |
Financing
Financing transactions tied to Arizona sites
Transactions the atlas ties to a named site in Arizona: joint ventures, project bonds, credit facilities, leases and power agreements. Amounts are as stated; overlapping commitments are never summed.
| Parties | Instrument | Amount | Date | Site | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlyle (seller) + EQT Carlyle agreed to sell its power and AI infrastructure platform Copia Power to EQT. |
acquisition | ≥$2.6B | completion expected by the end of 2026 | Copia Power site west of Phoenix | |
GI Partners + LKY Development GI Partners bought a 5.43-acre data center site at the southeast corner of 7th Avenue and Grant Street in Phoenix from LKY Development for $14,720,919 on 17 September 2026. The project had been threatened by Phoenix's 2025 data center zoning rules and is proceeding under a Proposition 207 waiver granted by the city. |
acquisition | $15M | Recorded 17 September 2026 (Maricopa County property records); reported 22 September 2026; single outlet | Data center site, southeast corner of 7th Avenue and Grant Street, Phoenix |
Policy context
What governs a data center in Arizona
Tucsoncity
New rules gate any project >25,000 sq ft or >20 MW, while the city explores ban options; restrictive zoning proposed April 2026.
Tucson adopted new data center rules with square-footage and megawatt gates after unanimously ending Project Blue annexation negotiations in August 2025.
Phoenixcity
Eleven landowners are suing the city of Phoenix for $753 million, claiming property value losses from data center restrictions passed the prior summer.
Chandlercity
Ordinance 5033, effective January 5, 2023, restricts data centers to PAD zoning.
Chandler's ordinance predates the 2024-2026 wave and confines data centers to Planned Area Development zoning.
Arizona (statewide)state
Statewide FY2027 budget tax-break pause and HB 2756 (Jun 2026); proposed 45% data center rate increase before the ACC; C.4 floors: queue 19-30 GW vs. APS peak ~8.2-8.7 GW; $17.6B at risk ($14B Tract + $3.6B Project Blue); 5 tracked actions.
Arizona enacted a statewide FY2027 budget tax-break pause and HB 2756 in June 2026, while the ACC considers data-center-specific rates. The governor supported removing industry tax incentives.
Arizona (ACC large-load review process for AEPCO member cooperatives)state
Covers very large customer arrangements at Graham County, Duncan Valley, Sulphur Springs Valley, Trico and Mohave electric cooperatives
The Arizona Corporation Commission approved on 12 August 2026 an Arizona Electric Power Cooperative filing that routes every case involving a very large power customer through a single review track with standard disclosures, so that serving data centers and other large loads is not shifted to residential and small retail members.
The policy layer for Arizona lives in three companion references: the Arizona Data Center Moratorium Tracker for every state measure and local moratorium on record, the Water Tracker for the water rules that touch a site, and the Grid Operator Watchlist for the large-load rules of the RTO or utility that decides whether it can energize.
Next door
States next door
On the map
Data centers in Arizona
The US Data Center Map identifies 201 facilities run by 53 operators in Arizona, each one placed from primary sources and listed by city and by operator, with this atlas record beside it.
Arizona data centers
201 facilities · 53 operators
Map, locations, operators, rules
Arizona power and local economy
Generation, utilities and county records
Explore the power supply chain and local conditions behind the build-out
US Data Center Map
Every state, one page each
The national map and the operator directory
Sources
Sources for Arizona
Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at Capital Atlas sources.
- datacenterwatch.orgData Center Watch
- michaelbommarito.comBommarito
- prnewswire.comPR Newswire / Data Center Watch
- aztechcouncil.orgAZ Tech Council
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- businesswire.comBusiness Wire
- carlyle.comCarlyle
- irei.comIREI
- datacenters.atmeta.comMeta Data Centers
- kjzz.orgKJZZ, 30 September 2026
- vantage-dc.comVantage North America locations
- abc15.comPhoenix Business Journal via ABC15
- bizjournals.comPhoenix Business Journal (publisher URL, paywalled)
- pinalcentral.comCasa Grande Dispatch (PinalCentral)
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- datacenterdynamics.comdatacenterdynamics.com
- therealdeal.comtherealdeal.com
- abc15.comabc15.com
- abc15.comabc15.com
- yourvalley.netyourvalley.net
- yourvalley.netyourvalley.net
- western-water.comWestern Water
- azluminaria.orgAZ Luminaria
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- azfamily.comazfamily
- azfamily.comArizona's Family (KTVK/KPHO)
- azcapitoltimes.comArizona Capitol Times
- knau.orgknau.org
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- azfamily.comAZFamily
- chamberbusinessnews.comChamber Business News, 1 October 2026
- azpm.orgAZPM News
- msn.comKOLD 13 News (via MSN), December 2025
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- goldwaterinstitute.orgGoldwater Institute (advocacy)
- thecentersquare.comThe Center Square
- kjzz.orgKJZZ
- datacenterbans.comData Center Bans
- datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.comET DataCenters
- dimetrics.aiDimetrics Arizona
- chandleraz.govChandler ordinance PDF
- chandleraz.govCity of Chandler
- citizenportal.aiCitizen Portal
- techcrunch.comTechCrunch
- yahoo.comThe Cool Down via Yahoo
Every state, one page each
Alabama 9 / 21Alaska 1 / 1Arizona 11 / 11Arkansas 2 / 8California 10 / 35Colorado 6 / 21Connecticut 0 / 6Delaware 0 / 5Florida 0 / 46Georgia 23 / 57Hawaii 0 / 0Idaho 2 / 2Illinois 10 / 35Indiana 14 / 44Iowa 3 / 22Kansas 5 / 19Kentucky 6 / 26Louisiana 7 / 3Maine 0 / 20Maryland 1 / 22Massachusetts 0 / 11Michigan 4 / 55Minnesota 3 / 31Mississippi 7 / 5Missouri 10 / 25Montana 1 / 10Nebraska 3 / 16Nevada 8 / 12New Hampshire 0 / 5New Jersey 4 / 61New Mexico 3 / 10New York 6 / 21North Carolina 10 / 45North Dakota 6 / 4Ohio 24 / 80Oklahoma 11 / 20Oregon 1 / 8Pennsylvania 16 / 42Rhode Island 0 / 5South Carolina 6 / 20South Dakota 1 / 6Tennessee 6 / 26Texas 106 / 35Utah 11 / 12Vermont 0 / 3Virginia 33 / 50Washington 9 / 22Washington, DC 0 / 0West Virginia 4 / 3Wisconsin 4 / 45Wyoming 11 / 5
Figures beside each state are named sites and blocked, delayed or restricted projects.
Part of the North American Data Center Capital Atlas, refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Announced commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure, so this page shows disclosed floors and never adds them into a single deployment figure. Informational, not investment or legal advice.
The SAVRN reference set
Seven references, one system
Capital, delay, policy, water, grid, permits and scarcity are one system seen from seven sides. Each reference is primary-sourced, refreshed on a schedule, and links into the others, so a project can be followed from the money committed to the docket that stopped it.
Delay Watchlist
Project-level slippage: named projects, jurisdictional actions, utility and federal dockets, SEC disclosures, and the interconnection queue.
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Moratorium Tracker
The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state.
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Water Tracker
Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger.
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Grid Operator Watchlist
ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC: the large-load rules, filings and queue positions that decide whether a site can energize.
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Permits and Power Development
Data center and substation permits, large loads in the interconnection queues, and the power plants planned to serve them, refreshed hourly from public records.
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SAVRN Scarcity Tracker
Eleven primary-sourced indicators of AI infrastructure scarcity, one composite index, read against the token index, SAVRN's own cost basis and the frontier ceiling.
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