How much power does AWS Mesa Campus use?

AWS Mesa Campus has a reported power capacity of 480 MW.

What tax breaks has AWS Mesa Campus received?

Amazon.com, Inc. has received $16.7M in tracked tax abatements across its sites. No state discloses the recipient at the individual-facility level.

Has AWS Mesa Campus had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for AWS Mesa Campus.

Where is AWS Mesa Campus located?

AWS Mesa Campus is in Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ.

Mapped (unverified)hyperscale

AWS Mesa Campus

Q: Who owns AWS Mesa Campus?

AWS Mesa Campus is operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc..

Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ

AWS Mesa Campus is a mapped data center in Maricopa County, AZ, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 480 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

Amazon.com, Inc.

Operator

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Power

480 MW

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Overview

AWS Mesa Campus is a hyperscale data center in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc. Operational since 2020, the site carries a reported power capacity of 480 MW.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Files as
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
This facility
AWS Mesa Campus

In the news

source: Google News

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

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source

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.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~10.2M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~6.1M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~4.1M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 480 MW (disclosed IT power): 2.5 L/kWh cooling (arid climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

Good

PM10

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$79.6K

People of color

33%

Below poverty

10%

Tract population

4,389

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, Jefferson Elementary School in Mesa, is 1.0 mi from this site (556 students).

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.