Project Blue
Beale Infrastructure · , AZ · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 32.1, -110.75
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Tucson Electric Power (TEP)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Under construction
Land clearing/grading began April 24, 2026, after county-level revival following the Tucson City Council's 2025 annexation rejection.
Underlying source
Source notes
Unincorporated Pima County, west of Houghton Rd, near Tucson. Construction Review Online lists "Up to 286–600 MW (initial phases lower)" across "approximately 2 million square feet at full build-out", and the Pima County Administrator's memo of September 17, 2025 describes Tucson Electric Power's proposed Energy Supply Agreement as "supplying 286 megawatts (MW) of electricity from existing TEP capacity for the initial phase"; no single planned total is recorded. 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, and also tracked as of August 2026) - 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, which is unusual for a project of this size. Subsidies are therefore recorded as absent rather than merely unsearched.
Tucson Electric Power is reported as the serving utility for the campus.
Sources and provenance
- Pima County NDA confirms Amazon is behind Project Blue data center · source retrieved 2026-07-09
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
- Construction begins on first hyper-scale data center in Pima County · source retrieved 2026-08-28
- As Project Blue data center construction starts near Tucson, protesters rally outside · source retrieved 2026-08-28
- 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.' · source retrieved 2026-08-31
- 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." · source retrieved 2026-09-23
- Construction Begins on Project Blue, Pima County's First Hyperscale Data Center · source retrieved 2026-09-10
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.