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Microsoft Goodyear Campus

Goodyear, Maricopa County, AZ

Source: Primary source

Microsoft Goodyear Campus is an operating data center in Maricopa County, AZ, operated by Microsoft Data Center LLC and ultimately owned by Microsoft Corporation. DataCentersExposed has documented 580 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Microsoft Corporation
Operator
Microsoft Data Center LLC
Power
580 MW
Utility
Arizona Public Service
Grid
WECC
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

The Microsoft Goodyear Campus is a hyperscale data center in Goodyear, Maricopa County, Arizona, operated by Microsoft Data Center LLC and ultimately owned by Microsoft Corporation. Operating since 2019, the site carries a reported power capacity of 580 MW, drawing electricity from Arizona Public Service within the WECC grid.

Operator chain

Known aliases: Microsoft Goodyear

In the news

source: GDELT

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 Microsoft Corporation (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2024 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2023 · term yr · source
  • Qualified Data Center Sales Tax Exemption$0
    State of Wisconsin · granted 2023 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2021 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2015 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2013 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2013 · 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~12.4M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~7.4M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~5M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 580 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
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
$99.5K
People of color
53%
Below poverty
14%
Tract population
2,531

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, Desert Star in Goodyear, is 0.4 mi from this site (638 students). 7 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.