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Meta Mesa Data Center

Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona · All 28 Meta sites · Every Meta case on our tracker

OperatingNo reception on recordAI confirmedRecord updated August 31, 2026

Meta Mesa Data Center is an operating data center in Mesa, Arizona (Maricopa County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced 2021, 50 MW operating, 396 acres, a reported $1 billion investment.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
Meta
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ
Coordinates
33.3375, -111.6355 (approximate)
Power capacity
50 MW operating
Land
396 acres
Investment
$1 billion
Announced
2021
Utility
Salt River Project (SRP)
Power source
Solar
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
200 permanent; 2,000 construction
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
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. 2025
    Operating
    Came online 2025 (land acquired 2021 via 'Redale LLC'); redesigned for AI workloads during construction per baxtel; $1B+ Arizona investment per Meta. Source: Meta Data Centers

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Meta Mesa Data 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

Meta partnered with SRP and Ørsted for a portfolio of solar-plus-battery projects to reach 100% renewable for the Mesa data center: majority offtake of the 300 MW Eleven Mile Solar Center (Pinal County), a 50 MW allocation from the 100 MW West Line Solar Facility (Eloy).

Meta has not named the cooling technology for Mesa. Its community development manager for the campus said that 'for more than half the year we can take air from outside to help cool our servers in lieu of continual water use', and that water is recycled several times before discharge to the municipality. The City of Mesa Sustainable Water Service Agreement provides a Water Allowance rising from 550 acre-feet/year at Phase 1 to 1,400 acre-feet/year at Phase 3. Meta's fleet-wide description of newer direct-to-chip closed-loop designs does not apply to this site, which broke ground in 2021.

Notes on the record

Meta data center at 3841 S Ellsworth Rd in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Maricopa County, land acquired 2021 (shell entity 'Redale LLC'), came online in 2025, and was redesigned for AI workloads during construction (baxtel). Meta states 'more than $1 billion' invested in Arizona. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the disclosed Ellsworth 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.

  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
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.
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 Meta Mesa Data Center in Mesa?

Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Meta Mesa Data 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 Meta Mesa Data Center?

No lawsuit over Meta Mesa Data 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 Meta Mesa Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Meta Mesa Data 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 Meta Mesa Data Center, and how big is it?

Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 50 MW. The site is recorded at 396 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Mesa Data Center," updated August 31, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-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/meta-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.Mesa, we are online!, Meta's Mesa data center serving traffic (Jan 2025), $1B+ in Arizona · Meta Data Centers · retrieved July 19, 2026
  2. 2.Meta Mesa, AZ Campus, came online 2025, redesigned for AI workloads, ~396 acres · Baxtel · retrieved July 19, 2026
  3. 3.SRP - Meta Teams Up with SRP and Ørsted to Support Data Center with Clean Energy · retrieved July 24, 2026
  4. 4.Meta Data Centers, Meta Mesa Data Center info sheet (Meta's own newsroom) · retrieved July 25, 2026
  5. 5.Arizona Technology Council, Meta expands plans for proposed large-scale Mesa data center · retrieved July 25, 2026
  6. 6.SRP - Meta Teams Up with SRP and Ørsted to Support Data Center with Clean Energy · retrieved August 16, 2026
  7. 7.City of Mesa Council Report, file 21-0552 (17 May 2021), Development Agreement and Sustainable Water Service Agreement with Redale LLC for ~396 acres; Water Allowance rising to 1,400 acre-feet/year at Phase 3 · retrieved August 31, 2026

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