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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 · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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It's built. The levers now are permit renewals, noise/air complaints, and rate-case intervention.

Hearing timeline

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. City Council

    Tue, Jul 8, 2025 · 5:45 PM MST

    City Council: data-center item — Data center text amendments under discussion.

    AgendaMeeting detailsvia Legistar · medium confidence
  7. City Council

    Tue, Jul 1, 2025 · 5:45 PM MST

    City Council: data-center item — Data Center Text Amendment Resolution introduced.

    AgendaMeeting detailsvia Legistar · medium confidence
  8. 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.

    AgendaMeeting detailsvia Legistar · medium confidence
  9. 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

    AgendaMeeting detailsvia Legistar · medium confidence

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Real parent
Aligned Energy Holdings, LP
Operator
Aligned Energy Holdings, LP
Est. capacity
~100-210 MW
Footprint
512,814 sq ft
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

data center

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

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.

Phoenix Committee
Jun 14, 2023 · 1 data-center mention
Chandler City Council
Oct 14, 2021 · 1 data-center mention
Chandler City Council
Sep 14, 2020 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No 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.

Statewide cost of this incentive

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.

source · All Arizona subsidies →

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 ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceAZMCA004013X135352
    NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
61
O3
Moderate
61
PM2.5
Moderate
61
PM10
Moderate

Air 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 2023
Median household income
$78.1K
People of color
36%
Below poverty
16%
Tract population
3,685

Demographics 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 / NCES

The 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.