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AWS Laveen Data Center Campus
Laveen, Maricopa County, Arizona · All 54 Amazon Web Services sites · Every Amazon case on our tracker
AWS Laveen Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Laveen, Arizona (Maricopa County), operated by Amazon Web Services. The public record puts it at announced October 2024, 220 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Amazon Web Services
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Laveen, Maricopa County, AZ
- Coordinates
- 33.3727, -112.1669
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 220 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- October 2024
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
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.
- 2026ProposedAmazon (via Amazon Data Services) acquired ~220 acres near Loop 202 & Dobbins Rd in Laveen (Phoenix) for a possible data center; $277M land purchase Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AWS Laveen Data Center Campus in Laveen, 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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Notes on the record
~220-acre land acquisition ($277M) near Loop 202 & Dobbins Rd, Laveen (Phoenix), Maricopa County. No capacity, utility, or AI-specific program announced yet, recorded as proposed / mixed_use pending a construction announcement (re-review trigger). Coordinates are the Laveen area centroid.
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
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves 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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the AWS Laveen Data Center Campus in Laveen?
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AWS Laveen Data Center Campus in Laveen, 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 AWS Laveen Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over AWS Laveen Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of July 25, 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 AWS Laveen Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for AWS Laveen Data Center Campus 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 AWS Laveen Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
Amazon Web Services is the operator on record. We hold 54 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 220 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "AWS Laveen Data Center Campus," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-laveen-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/aws-laveen-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.Amazon acquires 220 acres in Phoenix, Arizona for possible data center · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.Arizona Technology Council, Amazon buys massive Valley site · retrieved July 25, 2026
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