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Grandilla: Phoenix, Arizona

Utility Provider: Arizona Public Service (APS)

Lot Size: 638 acres

Grandilla (Arizona) Inc. and Foot Creek Corporation co-own 917 acres
at the northeast corner of 491st Avenue and Thomas Road in Tonopah, Maricopa
County, Arizona, approximately 50 miles west of Phoenix, rezoned to IND-2 Light
Industrial in December 2025 to accommodate a data center campus with solar,
battery storage, and gas generation. At full build-out the site plans up to nine
data center buildings of 250,000 sq ft each, totaling 2.25 million sq ft, to be
powered primarily by the adjacent Harquahala Sun complex (450 MW solar +
1,200 MWh BESS, operational 2025) and the under-construction Maricopa Energy
Center (550 MW solar + 2,200 MWh BESS, target 2026–2027), both under 20-year
power purchase agreements with Arizona Public Service. Maricopa County
approved the Comprehensive Plan Amendment and zone change with 12 binding
conditions, including a water-efficient hybrid cooling requirement and site use
restricted exclusively to data storage, solar, battery storage, and gas generation
facilities.

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Grandilla (Arizona) Inc. Sites

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Sites within 15 miles of Grandilla: Phoenix, Arizona

Distance	Site	About
9.45 miles	Arizona Land: Tonopah Expansion
9.72 miles	Arizona Land: Tonopah Campus	Arizona Land Consulting (ALC) is planning to build a 1.5-gigawatt (GW) data center in Buckeye, Arizona, a city located west of Phoenix.
14.08 miles	Tract: Buckeye, Arizona	Tract announced its acquisition of a 2,019-acre land parcel to build a gigawatt-scale data center park in Buckeye, Arizona.
14.61 miles	Tract: Buckeye Expansion
14.87 miles	Arizona Land: Buckeye 2	Arizona Land Consulting purchased 160 acres in Phoenix's Buckeye area for $21.7 million, with plans to sell to a data center developer.
15.04 miles	Arizona Land: Buckeye 2 Expansion

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Site Aerial Map

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Operating Company

Grandilla (Arizona) Inc. is one of 11 entities that together own the 917-acre Harquahala Energy Generation & Industrial Campus site in Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona. Ben Heglie, a land broker specializing in Pinal and Maricopa County transactions at Land Advisors Organization, is listed as a director. The entity appears to represent one of the original agricultural landowner groups that partnered with Copia Power to develop the site for data center and energy use.

Facilities

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Vintage Partners Abandons Phoenix, Arizona Data Center Plans

March 05, 2026 Arizona

Vintage Partners has scrapped plans for a data center in Laveen, Phoenix, Arizona. The developer will instead move forward with a mixed-use project on the 63-acre site, featuring commercial, retail, restaurant, and multifamily residential space.Vintage changed course at the request of the City of...

Project Blue in Tucson, Arizona Secures Utility Connection

December 06, 2025 Arizona

The Arizona Corporation Commission has approved an energy-supply agreement between local utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and the company behind Project Blue, a controversial data center development being advanced in Tucson, Arizona.TEP was approved to supply power to the project under a...

Lincoln Re-Purchases Arizona Data Center

November 04, 2025 Arizona

Real estate firm Lincoln has re-acquired a data center in Phoenix, Arizona at 2500 W. Frye Road in Chandler. Located on 14.5 acres, the 191,000-sq ft (17,740 sqm), 28MW facility features four data center halls, one of which is fully leased to a Fortune 500 enterprise user.“We are grateful to the...

Intel Announces New Arizona Fab 52 is Fully Operational

October 11, 2025 Arizona

Intel has announced that its new chip fabrication plant, Fab 52, in Chandler, Arizona, is fully operational, and that the facility will mass-produce the company’s upcoming mobile processors, Intel Core Ultra series 3, and Intel Xeon 6+ data center processors, codenamed Panther Lake and Clearwater...

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in Arizona

August 04, 2025 Arizona

Land developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project. The potential facility would be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site south of Eloy, which is a city in between Phoenix and Tucson. The land parcel is located along the Greene Canal.Once...