Microsoft Goodyear Campus
"The desert forced the world's most valuable company to redesign its cooling, and Goodyear's water bills still went up."
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 143 MW of reported power capacity and a 540,000 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkMicrosoft's Goodyear campus, south of the Phoenix Goodyear Airport, is a roughly $1.5 billion, five-building development serving Azure's West US 3 region, with the first two buildings, about 540,000 square feet, operating since around 2021.
Water is why this site matters. Goodyear could not make the data center's wastewater potable again because high dissolved solids made recycling cost-prohibitive, so a March 2024 agreement requires buildings 4 and 5 to be air-cooled. Microsoft put more than $40 million into the city's wastewater system, capped total use at 1.2 million gallons a day, and chose Goodyear to pilot a "zero-water" closed-loop cooling design. It is one of the clearest cases of the desert forcing a hyperscaler to change how it cools.
The broader fight continues across metro Phoenix. Arizona's 20-year data-center tax exemption has seen its cost climb roughly twelvefold to about $19 million by 2024, the governor signed a three-year moratorium on new breaks in June 2026, and Goodyear residents absorbed a 6 percent utility increase even as the city courts more data centers.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentMicrosoft Corporation
- Files asMicrosoft Data Center LLC
- This facilityMicrosoft Goodyear Campus
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: GDELT- Microsoft purchases 100 acres next to existing data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jun 11, 2026
- Microsoft spends $130M on Goodyear land to expand West Valley data center footprint - The Business JournalsThe Business Journals· Jun 4, 2026
- Microsoft Shares Data Center Campus Power and Water Usage - Data Center Richness | SubstackData Center Richness | Substack· Jul 13, 2026
- News | Microsoft scoops up 100 acres to expand Phoenix data center holdings - CoStarCoStar· Jun 8, 2026
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.
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 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe 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.