Project Blue Tucson
Tucson, Pima County, AZ
Source: Primary source
Project Blue Tucson is a withdrawn data center in Pima County, AZ, operated by Beale Infrastructure.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026
Overview
source: linkFormerly connected to Amazon. Voted down by the Tucson City Council, but in Decemebr 2025 the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a plan to let Tucson Electric Power power the project. Announced investment: $3.6B. Imported from the FracTracker Alliance U.S. Data Centers Tracker after review. Details to be corroborated from primary sources.
Operator chain
- Files asBeale Infrastructure
- This facilityProject Blue Tucson
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: Google News- Arizona water officials approve wells tied to Project Blue data centerAZPM· May 28, 2026
- Beale drilling two wells at Project Blue data center siteArizona Daily Star· May 23, 2026
- Tucson pulls water access from Project Blue data centerTucson Spotlight· May 14, 2026
- Contractor working on Project Blue data center issued Notice of ViolationKGUN 9· May 13, 2026
- Data center took 652K gallons of water. Why Tucson wants it backazcentral.com and The Arizona Republic· May 7, 2026
- Tucson Planning Commission reviews proposed regulations for data centersKOLD· May 6, 2026
Data-center discussions in Pima 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.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Andrada Polytechnic High School in Tucson, is 2.3 mi from this site (652 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.