Project Gravel (Beale Infrastructure / Sahuarita Holdings)
Pima County, AZ
Project Gravel (Beale Infrastructure / Sahuarita Holdings) is an announced data center project in Pima County, AZ, backed by Beale Infrastructure (Sahuarita Holdings, LLC). Beale Infrastructure (via Sahuarita Holdings LLC) is scoping an eight-building data center campus with its own substation on ~160 acres of vacant desert in Kerley Industrial Park, unincorporated Pima County west of Sahuarita. Plans advanced through county staff review before Pima County supervisors approved a 120-day moratorium (3-2) on new data center applications in Sept 2026. Separate from Beale's Project Blue and its Marana Luckett Road campus. (Source dated 2026-09-16.) [Reviewed 2026-10-09: verified] Multiple credible sources (Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Sentinel, local news) confirm Project Gravel as a proposed 160-acre, eight-building data center in unincorporated Pima County west of Sahuarita, owned by Sahuarita Holdings LLC, with county approval pending amid a 120-day moratorium as of September 2026. Source: https://www.gvnews.com/sahuarita/news/local/county-pauses-new-data-centers-as-project-eyes-land-near-sahuarita/article_cb38f969-1373-4bb6-b699-d51eb97492cc.html.
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
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Records and documentation
Arizona state legislation
- Council Vote — Denial of AI Data Center Special Use ApplicationChandler City Council denied a special-use application for an AI data center project in December 2025.Download
- ACC Docket E-01345A-25-0105 - APS 2025 General Rate Case (Data Center Rate Class)Filed June 2025, seeking ~14-16% base rate increase including a 45%+ rate increase specifically for "extra-large energy users" (data centers) and a proposed annual true-up mechanism largely tied to data-center-driven load growth.Download
- Pima County Memorandum of Agreement (Project Blue / Humphreys Peak Properties)Binding MOA between Pima County and Humphreys Peak Properties for the 'Project Blue' data center development.Download
- Ordinance No. 5033 (Zoning Code Ch. 35, Sec. 2214)One of the earliest data center zoning ordinances in the US, enacted by Chandler, AZ in December 2022.Download
- ACC Docket E-00000A-25-0069 - Inquiry into Data Center Rate ClassificationsOpened April 2025 -- commission-wide inquiry into rate classification and cost-allocation policy for data centers/large loads ("Growth Pays for Growth"). Workshop held April 2026.Download
- HB2949 - Energy costs; large data centersDescription comingDownload
- HB2452 - Comprehensive plans; data centers; nuclearDescription comingDownload
Site details
- County
- Pima County, AZ
- Address
- Pima County, AZ
- Stage
- Announced
Capacity and size: not on file
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Aerial imageryAerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain)
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