Data Center Registry
CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus
El Centro, Imperial County, California
CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in El Centro, California (Imperial County), operated by CalEthos, Inc. The public record puts it at 315 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- CalEthos, Inc.
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- El Centro, Imperial County, CA
- Coordinates
- 32.7900, -115.5600
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 315 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Imperial Irrigation District (IID)
- Power source
- Mixed
- 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
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 23, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus in El Centro, Imperial County, California 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
Geothermal/solar via the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) - a separate balancing authority from CAISO, which does not itself operate a load interconnection queue.
Notes on the record
First phase now ~300-420MW (expanded from an original 80-acre/300MW plan; a range, so omitted from capacityMw); part of a planned 1M sq ft, 3-4 phase campus. Land purchase completed; permitting/engineering underway with American Dark Fiber. Distinct, competing developer from the existing tracked Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (Sebastian Rucci/IVCM) project in the same county. Coordinates are approximate.
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 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.
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Our reporting on this site
- The Imperial Valley Water Lawsuit · Active litigation
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.
- Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing AI Data Center · Imperial · Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM)4 mi · Proposed · 330 MW · In litigation
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus in El Centro?
Nothing on record as of July 23, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus in El Centro, Imperial County, California 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 CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of July 23, 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 CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for CalEthos Lithium Valley 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 CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
CalEthos, Inc. is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 315 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "CalEthos Lithium Valley Data Center Campus," updated July 23, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/calethos-lithium-valley-imperial-county-ca.
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/calethos-lithium-valley-imperial-county-ca, 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.CalEthos expands data center plans for Lithium Valley, California, with 315-acre land purchase · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 2.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
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