Who owns QTS Pinal County Campus?

QTS Pinal County Campus is owned and operated by QTS Realty Trust, LLC.

How much power does QTS Pinal County Campus use?

QTS Pinal County Campus has a reported power capacity of 420 MW.

Has QTS Pinal County Campus had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for QTS Pinal County Campus.

Where is QTS Pinal County Campus located?

QTS Pinal County Campus is in Pinal County, AZ.

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QTS Pinal County Campus

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Arizona?

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). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Pinal County, AZ

Source: Primary source

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 Eric Keller · Updated Jun 21, 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 15.5¢/kWh, down 1.2% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)

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Ask for an independent noise study, a water-and-power impact assessment, enforceable conditions (setbacks, hours, cooling type), and that the record stays open for written comment. Procedural shortcuts have voided approvals elsewhere.

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Records / FOIA request

Public Records Request

To the records custodian for Pinal County, AZ,

Under the applicable public-records law, I request copies of the following records concerning the data-center project known as "QTS Pinal County Campus":

1. The complete application, including any rezoning, special-use/conditional-use permit, or site-plan submissions and all exhibits.
2. All staff reports, analyses, and recommendations.
3. Any traffic, noise, water-use, stormwater, or utility/load studies submitted or commissioned.
4. Any development agreement, proffers, or tax-incentive/abatement agreements and their term sheets.
5. All correspondence between the applicant (or its agents) and county/city staff or elected officials regarding this project.
6. Notices of public hearings and proof of required public notice.

I request these in electronic form where available. If any portion is withheld, please cite the specific exemption. If fees will exceed $25, please contact me first.

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Real parent

QTS Realty Trust, LLC

Operator

QTS Realty Trust, LLC

Power

420 MW

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

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.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
QTS Realty Trust, LLC
This facility
QTS Pinal County Campus

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

9.9 mi

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Transmission line

935 ft

115 kV line

Municipal water

No service area

self-supplied or unmapped

The 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

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

Good

PM10

Good

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

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.

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