Sell Land for Data Center Development in Maricopa County’s East Valley

Three public Mesa records, kept separate

Meta said on January 30, 2025 that its Mesa data center was serving traffic. The post says groundbreaking was in 2021, peak construction averaged about 2,000 workers, the site supports more than 200 operational jobs, and the fully built facility represents more than $1 billion in Arizona. Meta said electricity is matched with renewable supply arranged with Salt River Project, including three projects adding 450 MW. A later Meta fact sheet states data center investment in Arizona of $1.2 billion. Both figures are the company’s. This page does not average them.

The Arizona Commerce Authority said on September 6, 2023 that Google broke ground on a $600 million data center in Mesa, air-cooled, and that it was Google’s first physical presence in the state. A City of Mesa council item (file 19-0809) describes a development agreement with Stone Applications, LLC for about 187 acres at the northwest corner of Elliot and Sossaman Roads and, in the city’s title, identifies the project as a Google data center. Later trade press has used higher investment figures. They are not used here.

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board lists an active Apple subzone in Mesa (Zone 221, Subzone 00A) with 83.17 activated acres. That is evidence of an Apple Mesa site of that activated area. This page does not attach an investment dollar or a megawatt load to it, because the FTZ record does not.

Power and water, said narrowly

Meta’s own posts name SRP as the power partner for the Mesa campus and say Meta worked with the City of Mesa on water and wastewater cost. Phoenix-area parcels are split between SRP and Arizona Public Service. Do not assume the Meta arrangement applies next door.

The Pinal County solar contracts that supply Meta are generation, documented on the Pinal page. They are not East Valley interconnection headroom. There is no ERCOT- or PJM-style public load queue to quote for SRP.

If you own the land

• East Valley land without a substation story is a hard match, because the named campuses already contracted their own power.
• Say sale or lease, acreage, and which utility bill you pay.
• Submit the parcel. The Arizona overview covers the West Valley separately; do not mix Goodyear with Mesa.

Sources

1. Meta, Jan. 30, 2025 — Mesa data center online
2. Meta Mesa fact sheet
3. Arizona Commerce Authority, Sept. 6, 2023 — Google groundbreaking
4. City of Mesa file 19-0809 — Elliot and Sossaman
5. U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board — Apple subzone, Mesa
6. Meta, SRP, and Ørsted, Dec. 11, 2023

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