Data Center Registry
Energy Generation and Technology Campus
Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona
Energy Generation and Technology Campus is a proposed data center in Maricopa, Arizona (Pinal County), operated by W Holdings. The public record puts it at announced October 16, 2025, 495 acres, a reported $9.5 billion investment. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- W Holdings
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Maricopa, Pinal County, AZ
- Coordinates
- 32.9450, -112.0350 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 495 acres
- Investment
- $9.5 billion
- Announced
- October 16, 2025
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 500 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Opposed
- 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.
- November 20, 2025ProposedPinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the major comprehensive plan land-use amendment; rezoning still required. Source: InMaricopa
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Energy Generation and Technology Campus in Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. The Ak-Chin Indian Community, whose southern boundary abuts the site, opposes the location.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
The Ak-Chin Indian Community, whose southern boundary abuts the site, opposes the location. Vice-chairwoman Delia Carlyle cited a high concentration of cultural artifacts and concern that ground disturbance would affect ancestral remains, while saying the community does not oppose development generally.
Power and water
Plan pairs data centers with an on-site natural gas power plant and battery energy storage. The applicant told the commission the campus would be powered primarily by the Griffin Energy Project (solar, gas and battery). No MW figure has been stated publicly.
Applicant projects roughly 500 acre-feet of water use annually. Cooling method not stated.
Notes on the record
Located south of the City of Maricopa, east of State Route 347 and west of the Nissan test track, abutting the southern boundary of the Ak-Chin Indian Community. Investment is recorded as the itemized $4B construction plus $5.5B equipment figure presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission; a separate report rounds the total to $10B. Acreage is also reported as 500 and, in one account, 656 acres. Some coverage associates the site with Copia Power; the applicant of record in commission and board coverage is W Holdings, represented by the same attorney who has appeared for Copia projects, so the corporate relationship is not established here.
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
- 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
- Arizona Independent Technology Campus · Zinke Investments LLC2 mi · Proposed
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Energy Generation and Technology Campus in Maricopa?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Energy Generation and Technology Campus in Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. The Ak-Chin Indian Community, whose southern boundary abuts the site, opposes the location.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Energy Generation and Technology Campus?
No lawsuit over Energy Generation and Technology Campus appears in the record we track as of August 28, 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 Energy Generation and Technology Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Energy Generation and Technology 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 Energy Generation and Technology Campus, and how big is it?
W Holdings is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 495 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Energy Generation and Technology Campus," updated August 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/w-holdings-energy-generation-technology-campus-maricopa-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/w-holdings-energy-generation-technology-campus-maricopa-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.$10 billion data center campus OK'd south of Maricopa · InMaricopa · retrieved August 28, 2026
- 2.Commission Recommends Data Center Campus Despite Resident, Tribal Pushback · Pinal Post · retrieved August 28, 2026
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