Has Walmart Colorado Data Center had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Walmart Colorado Data Center.

Where is Walmart Colorado Data Center located?

Walmart Colorado Data Center is in El Paso County, CO.

Mapped (unverified)

Walmart Colorado Data Center

El Paso County, CO

Walmart Colorado Data Center is a mapped data center in El Paso County, CO. DataCentersExposed has documented a 219,542 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

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Operator

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Est. capacity

~40-90 MW

Footprint

219,542 sq ft

Interconnection

~17 MW

Utility

City of Colorado Springs

Grid

WACM

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

The Walmart Colorado Data Center is a mapped data center in El Paso County, Colorado, tied to Walmart in available records. Its reported footprint is 219,542 square feet. The site draws power from the City of Colorado Springs utility inside the WACM balancing authority.

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.

Water use

Modeled estimate~302.1K gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~155.2K gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~146.9K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 17 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate 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.

Environmental permits

source: Permit register

Clean Air Act permitted sourceCO0000000804102067
NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

Good

PM2.5

Good

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$170.5K

People of color

16%

Below poverty

Tract population

10,172

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, Tca College Pathways in Colorado Springs, is 0.5 mi from this site (465 students). 3 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.