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Meta Mesa Campus

Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ

Meta Mesa Campus is a mapped data center in Maricopa County, AZ, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 700 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Operator
Facebook USA, Inc.
Power
700 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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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

Meta Mesa Campus is a hyperscale data center in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. Operational since 2023, the site has a reported power capacity of 700 MW.

Operator chain

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 Meta Platforms, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for this record.
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · 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.

source · All Arizona subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~14.9M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~8.9M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 700 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
47
O3
Good
39
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
$58.8K
People of color
42%
Below poverty
9%
Tract population
5,432

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, Self Development Eastmark Academy in Mesa, is 0.9 mi from this 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.