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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Blue.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Beale Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Pima County · Arizona
- Official metro area
- Tucson, AZ
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 600 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 23 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000177
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Tucson Electric Power (TEP)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 290 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $3.6 billion
- Announced jobs
- 180 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Tucson Electric Power is reported as the serving utility for the campus.
Water. Beale told Pima County it selected an air-cooling technology using a closed-loop system that continuously recirculates small amounts of water and consumes none for industrial cooling; the County Administrator restated this in the same memo, and it became a binding commitment on 2025-12-16. Water volume remains publicly contested — Beale has cited roughly 40 acre-feet/year while the ADWR permit ceiling is 96.5 acre-feet/year. The dispute concerns volume, construction conduct and process, not the cooling technology.
Community. Dozens of protesters organized as the No Desert Data Center Coalition rallied at the site as construction began in late April 2026, holding "Not One Drop For Data" signs and briefly attempting to block construction vehicles before Pima County sheriff's deputies moved them out of the roadway.
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
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000177
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- AZ · Pima (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Beale Infrastructure
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-04 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 290 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 600 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Tucson Electric Power (TEP)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3.6 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 180 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-23
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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