The site
The site from above
Power
Power and the grid
The plan on record is a grid connection. A serving utility is named, but no signed service agreement is on record.
We checked utility filings, regulator dockets and air-permit records for this campus.
Permits
Permits checklist
2 granted · 4 checked, nothing on file
Approvals a campus like this normally needs, and what we found.
- ✓Site plan GrantedCity of Mesa · Jan. 8, 2026: Special use permit approved by City of Mesa. News report · Oct. 2026
- ✓FAA airspace clearance Grantedthe FAA · April 29, 2026: FAA airspace clearance granted by the FAA. FAA · April 2026
- –Checked, nothing on file: Zoning approval, Building permit, Water and wetlands permits, Utility and grid approval
Money
Money on record
$18M Land purchase (Land acquisition). News report · Sept. 2023
Timeline
What happened, and what is due
SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
- Sept. 27, 2023Site Project first appears in the public record
- Jan. 8, 2026Permits Site plan application filed with City of Mesa Planning and Zoning Board. News report · Oct. 2026
- April 29, 2026Permits FAA airspace clearance granted by the FAA. FAA · April 2026
Construction activity
Building activity by quarter
Since Sept. 2025: 1 FAA filing (April 2026): a 177 ft crane; 2 satellite captures.
FAA filings
Satellite
’26
Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 1. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
Who is involved
Owners, partners and builders
Owners and developers
- Amazon Web Services, developer
Builders and advisers
- Kimley-Horn, design team
Still unknown
Open questions
- Signed electric service agreement and delivery date.
Where this comes from
25 records from 8 documents
Drawn from news reports, public and commercial datasets, satellite captures and state agency records, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.
News report 4Dataset 2Satellite 1State agency 1
Evidence
Every quote behind this page
Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.
Power (3)
- Utility: Salt River Project (SRP)“Utility Provider: Salt River Project (SRP)”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Power step: utility named“Utility Provider: Salt River Project (SRP)”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Press-reported campus size, basis unstated: Propmodo (Oct 2026, citing Phoenix Business Journal reporting on AWS's Oct 2, 2026 community-commitments post) describes two 96 MW Amazon campuses under construction in Mesa on“Amazon currently has two 96-megawatt data center campuses under construction in Mesa, Arizona, on Elliot and Signal Butte roads”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
Money and contracts (3)
- Building count: 2 buildings“Each plan calls for two data center halls at about 227,000 square feet apiece”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
- Building sq ft: 454000 sq ft“Each plan calls for two data center halls at about 227,000 square feet apiece”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
- land purchase: land acquisition 18000000 USD“The company paid $16.9 million for the Elliot Road property; the Pecos property cost just over $18 million”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
Permits and government (3)
- FAA OE/AAA: Determined - No Hazard“AWS Data Center - Mobile Crane - 177 ft AGL - Determined - No Hazard”FAA · April 2026 · grade B
- site plan + special use permits (PHX062 / PHX065): filed Jan. 8, 2026; no Planning & Zoning Board agenda placement or approval found in public sources through Oct 20, 2026“the company filed requests on Jan. 8 to the city of Mesa's planning and zoning board asking for site plans to be approved”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- site plan: filed (reported); site plan approval plus special use permits for height and parking reduction requested for PHX062 and PHX065“the company filed requests on Jan. 8 to the city of Mesa's planning and zoning board asking for site plans to be approved as well as for special use permits for height and parking reduction for the two projects”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
Site and other (8)
- Campus name: Amazon Pecos Campus (PHX065)“Amazon is constructing the first of two data center buildings at its Pecos Road campus in southeast Mesa”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Project status: UNDER CONSTRUCTION, NOT IN SERVICE: the first of two data-center buildings is under construction and Baxtel's tracking also shows the second building under construction, with dedicated electrical infrastr“Amazon is constructing the second data center building at its PHX065 campus on Pecos Road in Mesa”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- County code: 04013Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Both PHX065 buildings under construction per Baxtel's site tracking (first building alongside a second data center and dedicated electrical infrastructure).“Building 1 is a single-story AWS data center being developed on Amazon's Pecos Road campus in Mesa. The facility is part of the PHX065 development and is being constructed alongside a second data center and dedicated electrical infrastructure”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Announced: Sept. 27, 2023“The other is located on 71.3 acres at 10464 E. Pecos Road, just east of the Legacy Park sports complex.”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
- Street address: 10464 E Pecos Rd, Mesa, AZ 85212“The other is located on 71.3 acres at 10464 E. Pecos Road, just east of Legacy Park, the huge youth and amateur sports complex”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
- Site acreage: 71.3 acres“The other is located on 71.3 acres at 10464 E. Pecos Road”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
- The Pecos site was previously entitled for a 701,572 sq ft Amazon last-mile logistics building ('Project Cork', Ryan Cos.), dormant since about 2021 before the data-center plan superseded it.“The Pecos site was also once considered for a 701,572-square-foot logistics building that would have been a last-mile delivery hub for Amazon. That development was called 'Project Cork' and Ryan Cos. was attached to it”News report · Sept. 2023 · grade C
Imagery and records: Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 (ESA Copernicus).