DirecTV data center DirecTV
Pima County, AZ
Project Blue
Beale Infrastructure (filed as Bobcat Tucson Water LLC). Under construction. 600 MW.
Project Blue is a data center campus planned for up to 10 buildings and 2 million square feet, with 600 megawatts of capacity at full build-out, on a 290-acre parcel north of the Pima County Fairgrounds in unincorporated Pima County. Tucson's City Council voted 7-0 in August 2025 to reject annexation and any city water service, but developer Beale Infrastructure kept the project alive by buying the land from Pima County, switching to a closed-loop air-cooled design, and drilling groundwater wells that Arizona water regulators approved in May 2026, which could draw up to 31 million gallons a year. Construction began in April 2026 despite ongoing protests over water use, and Pima County is now drafting a data center moratorium and ordinance partly in response.
- Status
- Under construction
- Operator
- Beale Infrastructure
- Applicant on record
- Bobcat Tucson Water LLC
- Location
- West of Houghton Road, north of the Pima County Fairgrounds, unincorporated Pima County, AZ, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
- Size
- 600 MW, 290 acres, 2,000,000 sq ft
- Cooling
- Air cooled
- Utility
- Tucson Electric Power
- Last updated
- August 19, 2026
Sources
- "We said no!!": Dozens protest as construction of Project Blue data center begins, AZ Luminaria, 2026-04-24
- A year later, here's where Tucson's controversial Project Blue data center project stands, AZPM, 2026-08-10
- Project Blue's 2 new Tucson wells could draw up to 31 million gallons of water annually, Tucson Sentinel, 2026-05-18
- Project Blue FAQ, Pima County, AZ, 2026
What it would mean nearby
Tucson Electric Power is asking the commission for a 11.6% residential increase (2026 general rate case (docket E-01933A-25-0103)). On a $160 monthly bill that is about $16 to $21 a month. This is a service contract, not a residential rate change. The protections in it exist to keep the cost of serving the data center from shifting onto Tucson homes; whether they hold is the thing to watch in TEP's future rate cases.
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