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QTS Pinal County Campus

Pinal County, AZ

QTS Pinal County Campus is a under construction data center in Pinal County, AZ, operated by QTS Realty Trust, LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 420 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Pinal, Arizona

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Power & your bill

420 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 336,000 homes.

Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in AZ is 15.6¢/kWh, up 3.0% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)

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Real parent
QTS Realty Trust, LLC
Operator
QTS Realty Trust, LLC
Power
420 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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Overview

QTS Pinal County Campus is a hyperscale data center under construction in Pinal County, Arizona, operated by QTS Realty Trust, LLC. The site carries a reported power capacity of 420 MW, a figure that signals significant demand on the region's electricity grid before the campus comes online.

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In the news

source: GDELT

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

Modeled estimate~9M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~5.3M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~3.6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 420 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
45
O3
Good
43
PM10
Good
21
PM2.5
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (West Pinal), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$68.8K
People of color
22%
Below poverty
9%
Tract population
6,866

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, Florence High School in Florence, is 8.7 mi from this site (796 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.