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Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center)

Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona · All 5 Apple sites

OperatingNo reception on recordAI likelyRecord updated August 31, 2026

Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) is an operating data center in Mesa, Arizona (Maricopa County), operated by Apple. The public record puts it at announced 2015, 83.17 acres, a reported $2 billion investment.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
Apple
Facility type
Data center, AI use likely
Location
Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ
Coordinates
33.3615, -111.6012 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
83.17 acres
Investment
$2 billion
Announced
2015
Utility
Salt River Project (SRP)
Power source
Solar
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
150 permanent
Public subsidy
Foreign-Trade Zone Subzone 221A, confers an Arizona property-tax reclassification; no dollar value is published for this site, U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board / City of Mesa (FTZ 221 grantee), 2014
Community reception
No reception on record
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. 2018
    Operating
    Operational Global Command Center (converted GT Advanced sapphire plant); $2B, 1.3M sq ft; latest expansion completed April 2018 per Data Center Knowledge. Source: Mesa Now (Mesa economic development)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Apple partnered with SRP in 2014 to site the 282-acre, 50MW Bonnybrooke solar farm in Florence, AZ, operational December 2016.

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
Foreign-Trade Zone Subzone 221A, confers an Arizona property-tax reclassification; no dollar value is published for this siteNot establishedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board / City of Mesa (FTZ 221 grantee)2014

Notes on the record

Apple's Global Data and Command Center at 3740 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, Maricopa County, a converted former GT Advanced sapphire plant (~1.3M sq ft), operational in the ~2016-2018 window, a $2B investment (Mesa Now / Data Center Knowledge), solar-powered. Functions as Apple's worldwide data-center monitoring/command hub. Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names Arizona among states for continued data-center capacity expansion. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed; acreage not disclosed in fetched sources. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the Signal Butte Rd address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Cooling method and water use
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) in Mesa?

Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center)?

No lawsuit over Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) appears in the record we track as of August 31, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center), and how big is it?

Apple is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 83.17 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Apple Mesa Data Center (Global Command Center)," updated August 31, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/apple-mesa-az.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/apple-mesa-az, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Grand opening for Apple's Arizona Data and Global Command Center in Mesa, $2B, 1.3M sq ft · Mesa Now (Mesa economic development) · retrieved July 19, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from July 9, 2024
  2. 2.Step Inside Apple's Data Center in Arizona, 1.3M sq ft, latest expansion completed April 2018 · Data Center Knowledge · retrieved July 19, 2026
  3. 3.Apple plants crowning achievement for renewable energy in Mesa (Arizona Technology Council) · retrieved July 24, 2026
  4. 4.Apple is building a solar-powered data 'command center' in Arizona (Quartz) · retrieved July 24, 2026
  5. 5.Federal Register, FTZ Board docket S-5-2014, 'The proposed subzone (83.17 acres) is located at 3740 S. Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, Arizona.' · retrieved August 31, 2026
  6. 6.Cult of Mac, 'Approximately 150 people work at the Mesa facility.' · retrieved August 31, 2026
  7. 7.Federal Register, approval of FTZ Subzone 221A for the Mesa site · retrieved August 31, 2026

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