Aligned Energy Data Center
2500 West Union Hills Drive · Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ
Source: OpenStreetMap
Aligned Energy Data Center is an operating data center in Maricopa County, AZ, operated by Aligned Energy Holdings, LP. DataCentersExposed has documented a 512,814 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
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Maricopa, Arizona
It's built. The levers now are permit renewals, noise/air complaints, and rate-case intervention.
Hearing timeline
- DecisionCity Council Formal MeetingApproved
Wed, Mar 25, 2026 · 2:30 PM MST
City Council Formal Meeting: Binding Waiver of Enforcement of Special Permit Provisions for Data Centers granted to Aligned.
Approved — binding waiver of special-permit provisions granted to Aligned Data Centers
Meeting detailsvia Legistar - DecisionCity Council Formal MeetingApproved
Wed, Jan 21, 2026 · 2:30 PM MST
City Council Formal Meeting: data-center item — Binding Waiver of Enforcement of Special Permit Provisions for Data Centers for Sheely Center.
Approved — binding waiver of data-center special permit provisions adopted as amended/revised.
Meeting detailsvia Legistar - DecisionCity Council Formal MeetingDeferred
Wed, Dec 17, 2025 · 2:30 PM MST
City Council Formal Meeting: data-center item — Binding Waiver of Enforcement for Sheely Center data center special permit provisions.
Continued — item postponed to a later date, no final decision
Meeting detailsvia Legistar - DecisionCity Council Formal MeetingDeferred
Wed, Dec 3, 2025 · 2:30 PM MST
City Council Formal Meeting: data-center item — Binding Waiver of Enforcement for Data Center special permit provisions (Sheely Center).
Continued to December 17, 2025 meeting — no final decision made.
Meeting detailsvia Legistar - DecisionCity Council Formal MeetingDeferred
Wed, Nov 19, 2025 · 2:30 PM MST
City Council Formal Meeting: data-center item — Waiver of special permit provisions for data centers (Ordinance S-52435) continued.
Continued to December 3, 2025 City Council Formal Meeting — no final decision.
Meeting detailsvia Legistar - City Council
Tue, Jul 8, 2025 · 5:45 PM MST
City Council: data-center item — Data center text amendments under discussion.
- City Council
Tue, Jul 1, 2025 · 5:45 PM MST
City Council: data-center item — Data Center Text Amendment Resolution introduced.
- Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing
Wed, Jun 25, 2025 · 4:00 PM MST
Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing: data-center item — Data center text amendment under consideration.
- Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing
Wed, Jun 11, 2025 · 4:00 PM MST
Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing: data-center item — General text amendment regarding data centers
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
source: linkdata center
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentAligned Energy Holdings, LP
- Files asAligned Energy Holdings, LP
- This facilityAligned Energy Data Center
In the news
source: GDELT- Google-backed CO2 battery firm Energy Dome to deploy 19MW system at SRP run power plant in Arizona - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jun 16, 2026
- Kevin Thompson: “For full transparency, I have a client that’s a data center” - Energy and Policy InstituteEnergy and Policy Institute· Jun 9, 2026
- This Arizona energy expert isn't panicking about data centers - azcentral.com and The Arizona Republicazcentral.com and The Arizona Republic· Jun 1, 2026
- Aligned Data Centers advances 2-building Peoria campus - KTAR News 92.3 FMKTAR News 92.3 FM· May 30, 2026
- Aligned Data Centers moves ahead with two-building campus in Peoria - The Business JournalsThe Business Journals· May 28, 2026
- Data Center Boom Alarms Arizona Energy Panel - govtech.comgovtech.com· Apr 13, 2026
In public meetings
Where this facility is discussed in the verbatim record of public government meetings. Captions are auto-generated and uncorrected.
- City Council Formal MeetingMar 25, 2026
“…Mayor Hodge Washington, that this item be adopted. The motion carried by the following vote: 92. [26-0487] Authorization to Grant Aligned Data Centers (Behrend) Propco, LLC (Aligned) a Binding Waiver of Enforcement (Waiver) of the Special Permit Provisions for Data Centers (Ordinance S-52717) - District 1 Action:…”
Read the transcript · 2 mentions
Data-center discussions in Maricopa County
source: LocalView (CC0)Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Arizona reported $38.5M in Computer Data Center TPT/Use Tax Exemption (Deduction Code 565; A.R.S. § 41-1519) for FY2025 (Arizona Department of Revenue, Office of Economic Research and Analysis). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Environmental permits
source: Permit register- Clean Air Act permitted sourceAZMCA004013X135352NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Phoenix), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Legacy Traditional School - Deer Valley in Phoenix, is 0.6 mi from this site (451 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.