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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Blue.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Beale Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Pima County · Arizona
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 600 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000177
What the source record says
Unincorporated Pima County, west of Houghton Rd, near Tucson. 500-700MW planned across 13M sq ft (a range, so omitted from capacityMw). AWS confirmed as end-customer via an NDA obtained by AZ Luminaria. Distinct site from Beale Infrastructure's Fremont Peak Properties/Luckett Road project in the Town of Marana (also AZ, also tracked this session) - same developer family, different parcel. Coordinates are approximate. The 180 permanent jobs figure is a projection for the third year of operations in 2029, published by Pima County and by the developer. Beale's own letter of 2025-09-17 adds a qualifier the county FAQ omits: the figure "include[s] full-time contractors and support personnel", and at least 75 of the roles will be directly employed by the end user. Beale has also stated it "is not asking for property tax incentives, often a necessary component of a data center project's cost competitiveness", and the utility agreement with Tucson Electric Power carries no financial incentives or discounts — unusual for a project of this size, and the reason subsidies are recorded as absent rather than merely unsearched.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-04 · source-reported under construction
Land clearing/grading began April 24, 2026, after county-level revival following the Tucson City Council's 2025 annexation rejection.
Sources and attribution
- Pima County NDA confirms Amazon is behind Project Blue data center · AZ Luminaria
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Construction begins on first hyper-scale data center in Pima County · KOLD News 13
- As Project Blue data center construction starts near Tucson, protesters rally outside · KJZZ Fronteras Desk
- Pima County Administrator memo to the Board of Supervisors, 'Update on Project Blue' (17 Sept 2025), with the Beale Infrastructure letter attached — 'we have selected an air cooling technology that uses a closed-loop system... Beale's air cooled design will consume no water, potable or otherwise, for industrial cooling.'
- Pima County official Project Blue FAQ, Economic Impact Study section — "180 new full-time, permanent jobs created by the third year of operations in 2029." · Pima County, Arizona
- Construction Begins on Project Blue, Pima County's First Hyperscale Data Center · Construction Review Online
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID beale-project-blue-pima-county-az. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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