Data center profile · Northeast corner of Attaway Road and Arizona Farms Road, Florence, Pinal County, Arizona

EdgeCore Florence Campus (Dobson Farms East)

EdgeCore's 720 MW, ten-building data-center concept on 239 acres in Florence, Arizona (applicant plans); the data-center rules, power contract and permits are still missing.

Entitlement stage. Florence's council changed the general plan for the 239 acres on Oct. 7, 2025, but the planned-unit-development amendment that would set data-center rights is not approved, and in Sept. 2026 the town said it was not reviewing any specific data-center proposal.
The site, Satellite image, Dec. 9, 2022
720 MW
planned capacity: ten buildings at 72 MW each (applicant plans, press)
not stated as IT capacity or utility load; four on-site substations rated about 1,120 MW combined
239 acres
Dobson Farms East parcel
part of a 1,619-acre rezoning at Dobson Farms
7-0
council vote on Oct. 7, 2025 for the general plan change to industrial
the PUD amendment for this parcel is still not approved
0
power contracts, site plans, building permits or tenants on record
Salt River Project is the expected utility
OperatorEdgeCore Digital Infrastructure (EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC), prospective developer and operator; Dobson Farms owns the land
CustomerNone named
Planned IT capacity576 MW at full build-out (our estimate from the company's 720 MW campus power figure)
First building in serviceOur estimate: 2029 or later (no dated power path yet).
Next deadlineDec. 2026: Town advisory committee recommends data-center permit conditions (expected Dec. 2026 to early 2027)
From orbit

The site from above

Satellite overview1
Satellite image, Dec. 9, 2022. Pin: Dobson Farms East parcels.
From orbit

Dobson Farms East parcels

Satellite views of the same ground on Dec. 9, 2022 and Oct. 15, 2026. The later view comes from a lower-resolution satellite (10 m pixels), so it is much softer than the first. Drag to compare.

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Power

Power and the grid

None energized or contracted yet

Salt River Project grid serviceAnticipated, no agreement
720 MW
applicant's planned capacity; no service agreement or study participation found News report · Sept. 2025
Proposed
Backup generators (emergency use, not a power supply)

Getting on the grid

Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.

  1. Nov. 1, 2025
    SRP large-load price plan takes effect
    New customers of 20 MW or more must join the E-67 plan, with an 80% minimum bill and a service agreement. Utility regulator · Nov. 2025
  2. Aug. 12, 2026
    SRP briefs county on its queue
    SRP says 24 data centers asked for 7.2 GW; three remain, seeking about 1 GW. None is named as this campus. News report · Aug. 2026
  3. As of Oct. 2026
    No service agreement found
    No SRP agreement, study participation or load contract for this campus appears in any source. see Permits
  4. Not set
    Utility agreement: not signed
    SRP requires a 15-year service agreement and collateral that its officials say averages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. News report · Aug. 2026
Permits

Permits checklist

2 pending · 1 granted · 4 checked, nothing on file

Approvals a campus like this normally needs, and what the record shows. The Oct. 2025 data-center-by-right approval applies to the neighboring Florence Tech Park, not to this parcel.

Risks

What could slow it down

Money

Money on record

80%
SRP minimum monthly bill on forecast demand
15-year agreement and collateral expected (SRP officials) Utility regulator · Nov. 2025
$12.8B to $1.5B
SRP upgrade cost for its surviving large-load queue after a July 2026 restudy
shared by three unnamed projects; no evidence this campus is among them News report · July 2026

Not on record: capital cost or financing: EdgeCore is owned by Partners Group, no campus-level funding on record News report · Oct. 2026; land purchase by EdgeCore: Dobson Farms remains the owner of the parcel News report · Sept. 2025

Timeline

What happened, and what is due

SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
  1. Sept. 4, 2025
    Permits Planning commission holds an informational hearing on the Dobson Farms plans, including a 72 MW-per-building data-center layout News report · Sept. 2025
  2. Sept. 18, 2025
    Permits Planning commission recommends approval, 4-0 News report · Sept. 2025
  3. Oct. 7, 2025
    Permits Town council approves the general plan changes 7-0, including the 239-acre East parcel News report · Oct. 2025
  4. Nov. 1, 2025
    Power SRP's large-load price plan takes effect for new customers of 20 MW or more Utility regulator · Nov. 2025
  5. Feb. 2026
    Permits Pinal County denies the neighboring Silver King Energy Center, which claimed a supply contract with a different developer (not EdgeCore) News report · Feb. 2026
  6. June 29, 2026
    Permits Town council creates a data-center advisory committee News report · June 2026
  7. July 31, 2026
    Permits Town finishes staff review of the East and West PUD amendment; not approved Local government · July 2026
  8. Aug. 4, 2026
    Site A resident asks for a one-year moratorium; council expands the committee to seven members News report · Aug. 2026
  9. Sept. 21, 2026
    Permits Advisory committee meets; town says it is not reviewing a specific data-center proposal and one unnamed developer has paused an application News report · Sept. 2026
  10. Dec. 2026
    Permits Advisory committee recommendations expected, Dec. 2026 to early 2027 News report · June 2026
Construction activity

Satellite captures by quarter

Since Dec. 2022: 2 satellite captures. The chart starts in the first quarter of 2023; 1 earlier record is not drawn.

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Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 1. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings

Specs

10 buildings
two-story, about 332,100 sq ft each (applicant plans, press)
~1,000,000 gallons a day
water use across the rezoned Dobson Farms areas at full build-out (applicant estimate); closed-loop, low-water cooling
85 ft
maximum building height under the draft standards, plus 15 ft parapet
4 substations
three large and one smaller, about 1,120 MW combined (applicant concept)
80%
minimum monthly bill as a share of forecast demand under SRP's large-load plan
Who is involved

Owners, partners and builders

Owners and developers
  • EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure (EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC): prospective developer; owned by Partners Group
  • Dobson Farms (Chris Dobson): landowner and applicant of record
  • CVL Consultants: planning consultant for the owner
Decision-makers
  • Town of Florence Town Council and Planning and Zoning Commission: land-use authority
  • Data Center Facility Ad Hoc Advisory Committee: drafting permit conditions
Power and water
  • Salt River Project: expected electric utility
  • EPCOR: water and wastewater
  • City of Mesa: natural gas
Neighboring projects (separate)
  • Ryan Companies: developer of the adjacent Florence Tech Park
  • Silver King Energy Center: adjacent energy project denied by Pinal County in Feb. 2026
Still unknown

Open questions

Where this comes from

172 records from 27 documents

Drawn from news reports, local government records, public and commercial datasets, securities filings, utility regulator dockets, state agency records, court filings and satellite captures, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.

News report 10Local government 5Dataset 4SEC filing 4Utility regulator 3State agency 2Court filing 1Satellite 0
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 (27)
  • Electric service agreement signed: not stated
    “the customer shall sign SRP's then-current form of Agreement for Electric Service, having a minimum term as set forth therein”
  • Power plan: grid
    “electric service by Salt River Project”
  • Water provider: EPCOR (water and wastewater)
    “Water and wastewater service for Florence Tech Park would be provided by EPCOR, electric service by Salt River Project, and natural gas service by the City of Mesa”
  • Stage: announced only / partially entitled - GPA adopted Oct 7, 2025 (Ord 766-25), but the East PUD amendment that would establish data-center use rights and standards was still unapproved at the last town report (Jul 20
    “At present, Florence Tech Park is the only location in town where data centers are expressly permitted by right”
  • Gas service: City of Mesa natural gas (per PUD record)
    “Water and wastewater service for Florence Tech Park would be provided by EPCOR, electric service by Salt River Project, and natural gas service by the City of Mesa”
  • Rate class: SRP E-67 (Large Load Substation Large General Service) - mandatory for New Large Load Accounts
    “Participation in this plan is required for any New Large Load Account”
  • Nearest power line of 345 kV or more: 8.36 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Nearest substation of 345 kV or more: none mapped within 16 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Nearest gas pipeline: 10.24 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Interconnection status: none found - no SRP interconnection agreement, LCIP participation, or load contract for this campus in any source
    “In 2025, SRP introduced the Large Customer Integration Process (LCIP) to address requests for electricity for new large-load customers such as data centers”
  • Utility: Salt River Project (SRP); site is in SRP service territory south of SRP's Abel Substation / receiving station on W Judd Road
    “Electric service Salt River Project”
  • SRP updated E-67 terms effective with the November 2025 billing cycle (Board pricing process concluded Feb 27, 2025): E-67 mandatory for new large-load accounts of 20 MW or more, with an 80% minimum billing demand
    “Changes to the E-67 price plan for large commercial or industrial customers intended to ensure that those customers bear the costs required to serve them”
  • Substation: Abel Substation (SRP receiving station with accompanying substation), north of the Dobson Farms areas; Copper Crossing Energy and Research Center adjacent
    “To the north, SRP built the Abel Substation and, next to it, the Copper Crossing Energy and Research Center”
  • Utility service: not stated
    “Neither Scharli nor his slides identified the three companies”
  • SRP told Pinal County supervisors that announced data-center megawatts are braggawatts: developers state absolute peak capability they almost never consume, and SRP requires monthly load forecasts for the full 15-year te
    “They're gonna go to the absolute peak of what that data center or that business is capable of consuming. They almost never consume that amount”
  • SRP LCIP restudy cut required network upgrades from 83 to 8 and cost from $12.8B to $1.5B for the three surviving (unnamed) projects; portfolio context only - no evidence Dobson Farms East is among them
    “a restudy delivered July 15 cut the needed upgrades from 83 to eight and the transmission bill from $12.8 billion to $1.5 billion”
  • Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously denied the Silver King Energy Center (up to 800 MW solar, 800 MW battery, 400 MW gas), whose developer claimed a binding supply contract with Ryan Companies for the adjacent
    “In February 2026, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously denied the Silver King Energy Center”
  • Stated campus size: 720 MW
    “conceptual plans there show 10 two-story data center buildings totaling roughly 720 megawatts, plus four electrical substations with a combined rating of approximately 1,120 megawatts and 44 backup generators”
  • Utility: Salt River Project (SRP) - anticipated provider per project narratives; no agreement
    “Salt River Project (SRP) is anticipated to serve as the electrical provider for all three Dobson Farms developments”
  • Interconnection status: utility named (anticipated only) - SRP is the anticipated provider for the Dobson Farms developments per the project narratives and the site is adjacent to SRP's Abel Substation; Town of Florence
    “The site sits adjacent to the Salt River Project's Abel Substation, designated as a future power corridor”
  • Buildings: 10 buildings
    “10 two-story data center buildings, each with approximately 72 megawatt power capacity”
  • Stated campus size: 720 MW
    “each of the 10 data center buildings planned for that project would have a 72-megawatt (MW) power capacity”
  • IT capacity: not stated
    “each of the 10 data center buildings planned for that project would have a 72-megawatt (MW) power capacity”
  • On-site generation: not stated
    “with the project also including 44 generators for backup/emergency power”
  • Backup generators: 44 generators
    “Plans include multiple high-capacity electrical substations—three large and one smaller—plus 44 backup generators”
  • Substations planned: 4 substations (3 large + 1 smaller), combined rating approx 1,120 per applicant conceptual plan
    “plus four electrical substations with a combined rating of approximately 1,120 megawatts”
  • The over-1-GW figure in coverage is a press estimate across three separate Dobson Farms development areas, not a campus figure; only Dobson Farms East carries a documented per-building estimate (720 MW)
    “Based on the scale of the other projects, overall demand could plausibly exceed 1,000 MW, although no combined total has been provided in official filings”
Money and contracts (20)
  • Conditions of approval: Dobson Farms PUD data-center standards per town staff memo: 85 ft max building height plus 15 ft parapet; front setbacks 20-40 ft; perimeter fencing at least 6 ft; screening of mechanical, electri
    “A maximum data center building height of 85 feet, with up to 15 additional feet for parapet walls”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: scope Participation required for New Large Load Accounts (first service on or after Nov 1, 2025); Large Load Account = load of 20 MW or more
    “Participation in this plan is required for any New Large Load Account”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: minimum bill Minimum Billing Demand = 80% of customer forecasted demand (Condition B); reducible to the extent the customer funds load-serving resources under Condition C, or for economic development
    “each New Large Load Account will have a minimum billing demand of 80% of customer's forecasted demand”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: condition Condition C: if the customer asks SRP to procure or develop load-serving resources SRP would not otherwise build, SRP requires the customer's written agreement to reimburse SRP's costs
    “SRP will require the customer's written agreement to reimburse SRP for the costs incurred in developing or procuring the resource(s)”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: scope Condition D: SRP determines the maximum load from customer forecasts and has no obligation to serve load in excess of the maximum
    “SRP will determine the maximum load for any New Large Load Account based on customer forecasts”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: term Condition E: at SRP's request the customer shall sign SRP's form of Agreement for Electric Service, having a minimum term as set forth therein. The published price plan does not state the term l
    “the customer shall sign SRP's then-current form of Agreement for Electric Service, having a minimum term as set forth therein”
  • SRP E-67 Price Plan: termination Rules and Regulations A: failure to comply in all material respects with SRP's Rules and Regulations may result in SRP terminating electric service
    “Failure by a customer to comply in all material respects with SRP's Rules and Regulations may result in SRP terminating electric service”
  • Development agreement (Town of Florence): missing FINDING: no development agreement for the East parcel appears in the town records reviewed; the Oct 7, 2025 actions were legislative ordinances (766-25 through 769-25), n
    “Public Hearing on ORDINANCE No. 766-25: and Discussion/Approval/Disapproval”
  • SRP Agreement for Electric Service (this campus): missing FINDING: no executed SRP service agreement, interconnection agreement, or LCIP participation for this campus found in any source as of Oct. 18, 2026; the claim that
    “These new large load customers must pay upfront for their upgrade costs and meet certain conditions”
  • Tenants: not stated
    “The Town is not currently reviewing a specific data center proposal”
  • Tenant status: not stated
    “The Town is not currently reviewing a specific data center proposal”
  • Water rights cap: No CAP/CAWCD allocation or subcontract for this campus found
    “The CAP canal runs along part of the site”
  • SRP Large Customer Integration Process (LCIP) cluster study: condition First cluster results (Oct 2025): 83 required network upgrades across SRP, APS and WAPA systems priced at $12.8B; continuation required a deposit of
    “To continue, each project had to post a deposit covering 30 percent of its share of those costs, as an irrevocable letter of credit”
  • SRP Large Customer Integration Process (LCIP) cluster study: deadline Restudy delivered Jul 15, 2026 cut required upgrades from 83 to 8 and cost from $12.8B to $1.5B split pro rata; deposits totaling 60% of costs due Sep
    “Deposits totaling 60 percent of the costs are due Sept. 15”
  • SRP Large Customer Integration Process (LCIP): fees $40,000 application fee plus $250,000 study fee, both nonrefundable
    “applicants pay a $40,000 application fee and a $250,000 study fee”
  • SRP E-67 generation terms (per SRP officials' statements): term 15-year contract; monthly minimum charge of at least 80% of contracted power; collateral averaging in the hundreds of millions of dollars, usually a surety
    “each large customer posts collateral averaging in the hundreds of millions of dollars”
  • A resident told the council the 2026 state budget deal pauses sales-tax exemptions for new data center operators for three years through 2029; raised in call to the public and not verified against the statute this pass
    “Gov. Hobbs signed a budget deal placing a three-year moratorium on state sales tax exemptions for new data center operators through 2029”
  • Financing: not stated
    “One of the first potential users is EdgeCore, which is eyeing a 750-acre site for a major data center campus”
  • Square feet: 3321000 sq ft
    “ten two-story data centers, each totaling 332,100 square feet”
  • Stated capital cost: not stated
    “EdgeCore is just a vote away from building a 72 megawatt data center in the Arizona rural town of Florence”
Permits and government (22)
  • Data Center Facility Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, Town of Florence: First meeting: briefing on existing data center rules, zoning and development process
    “The Town is not currently reviewing a specific data center proposal”
  • Planned Unit Development amendment (Dobson Farms East/West): staff review completed; comments provided to applicant; not approved
    “Review of the Dobson Farms West and East PUD Amendment has been completed, and comments have been provided to the applicant”
  • Building permit: none found
    “Building Safety reviewed 38 plan reviews during the reporting period”
  • Planned Unit Development amendment (Florence Tech Park: adopted
    “In 2025, the Town Council approved Ordinance No. 769-25, amending the Dobson Farms Planned Unit Development to establish the Florence Tech Park”
  • Announced: Sept. 4, 2025
    “PRESENTATION/PUBLIC HEARING of the proposed Major General Plan Amendment for the Dobson Farms East project (Case PZ-25-55)”
  • Aliases: Dobson Farms East; Dobson Farms EdgeCore Data Center; Able Tech Park Data Center
    “referred to by multiple names across various planning documents, including the Florence Tech Park, the Able Tech Park Data Center, and the Dobson Farms EdgeCore Data Center”
  • Air permit (backup generators): none found
    “with the project also including 44 generators for backup/emergency power”
  • Board of Supervisors, Pinal County: SRP presentation on data center power costs and the Large Customer Integration Process (education session)
    “In 2025, 24 data centers asked SRP for 7.2 gigawatts of new power. Three remain after the first deposit deadline, seeking about 1 gigawatt”
  • Opposition: Minimal at the 2025 hearings; one resident requested a moratorium of at least one year (Aug 4, 2026); council formed an advisory committee (Jun 29, 2026) to recommend CUP conditions for data centers outside F
    “she requested at least a one-year moratorium on reviewing, rezoning or approving any data centers”
  • Town Council, Town of Florence: Appointed seven members to the data center advisory committee (expanded from five); resident requested a moratorium of at least one year during call to the public
    “the council expanded the panel from the five seats originally planned to seven”
  • Florence created a seven-member Data Center Facility Ad Hoc Advisory Committee to recommend Conditional Use Permit conditions for data centers outside Florence Tech Park; recommendations expected around December 2026 to
    “A seven-member advisory committee will recommend those conditions”
  • Town Council, Town of Florence: Created the Data Center Facility Ad Hoc Advisory Committee
    “the council established the committee on June 29 to help the town understand potential impacts, opportunities, risks and mitigation measures”
  • Board of Supervisors, Pinal County: Silver King Energy Center rezoning (adjacent energy project)
    “In February 2026, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously denied the Silver King Energy Center”
  • Energy project rezoning (adjacent: denied (unanimous)
    “a proposed power source for the development has already been rejected”
  • Rezoning status: Town of Florence approved three General Plan amendments (Ordinances 766-25, 767-25, 768-25) and the Florence Tech Park PUD amendment (Ordinance 769-25) in October 2025 (7-0), covering 1,619 acres at Dobs
    “In 2025, the Town Council approved Ordinance No. 769-25, amending the Dobson Farms Planned Unit Development to establish the Florence Tech Park.”
  • Construction stage: announced / rezoned only - Town of Florence council voted 7-0 on October 7, 2025 to rezone; no construction reported as of October 2026
    “The Florence Town Council voted unanimously on October 7, 2025, to approve three major land use amendments transforming 1,619 acres of the Dobson Farms master-planned community from residential to industrial development.”
  • Rezoning date: Oct. 7, 2025
    “The Florence Town Council on Oct. 7 unanimously approved a set of major general-plan amendments and a planned-unit-development amendment”
  • Major General Plan Amendment: adopted
    “The approvals cover multiple ordinance items tied to the Dobson Farms East and West proposals and the Florence Tech Park PUD amendment”
  • Town Council, Town of Florence: Ordinances 766-25 (East GPA), 767-25 (West GPA), 768-25 (Tech Park GPA), 769-25 (Tech Park PUD amendment)
    “The council voted separately on each ordinance and adopted them by recorded roll call votes that were all unanimous”
  • General Plan Amendment recommendation: recommended approval (4-0)
    “Each vote recorded in the meeting minutes was 4-0 in favor of forwarding a recommendation to Town Council”
  • Planning and Zoning Commission, Town of Florence: Recommendation on PZ-25-55, PZ-25-56, PZ-25-34, PZ-25-35
    “Each vote recorded in the meeting minutes was 4-0 in favor of forwarding a recommendation to Town Council”
  • Planning and Zoning Commission, Town of Florence: Informational public hearing: GPA cases PZ-25-34 (Florence Tech Park), PZ-25-55 (Dobson Farms East), PZ-25-56 (Dobson Farms West)
    “The commission considered amendments for Florence Tech Park at Dobson Farms (780 acres), Dobson Farms East (239 acres), and Dobson Farms West (600 acres)”
Legal (1)
  • Federal cases: none naming the campus or the developer
    “CourtListener search for "EdgeCore" returned 29 records, all naming Edgecore Networks or Edgecore USA hardware entities”
Site and other (17)
  • SEC filer record: fund vehicles only
    “Full-text search for "EdgeCore" returns JV fund Form Ds (2018), New EdgeCore REIT, LLC (2022) and Edgecore Networks, Inc.”
  • Developer: EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure (EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC)
    “EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure (d/b/a EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC)”
  • Cooling: closed-loop, low-water cooling (per PUD narrative)
    “The PUD narrative also identifies closed-loop, lowwater cooling methods as part of the planned development”
  • Construction stage: not stated
    “Review of the Dobson Farms West and East PUD Amendment has been completed, and comments have been provided to the applicant”
  • Minimum bill terms: 80% of forecasted demand (Minimum Billing Demand), E-67 Condition B
    “each New Large Load Account will have a minimum billing demand of 80% of customer's forecasted demand”
  • Address: NE corner of Attaway Road and Arizona Farms Road, Florence, AZ
    “LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ATTAWAY ROAD AND ARIZONA FARMS ROAD”
  • County code: 04021
    “TOWN OF FLORENCE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA”
  • Parcel IDs: 210-46-002A
    “ASSESSOR PARCEL NUMBER (APN) 210-46-002A (PZ-25-55)”
  • Acres: 239 acres
    “APPROVING A MAJOR GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE LAND USE MAP FOR THE APPROXIMATELY 239-ACRE PROPERTY”
  • Original target date: not stated
    “The Town is not currently reviewing a specific data center proposal”
  • Current target date: not stated
    “The Town is not currently reviewing a specific data center proposal”
  • Name: EdgeCore Florence Campus (Dobson Farms East)
    “Short Code: Dobson Farms East”
  • Town Community Development Director stated one developer has paused an application while the data-center advisory committee completes its work; the developer was not named, so the pause cannot be attributed to EdgeCore o
    “Community Development Director AJ Monroe said one developer has paused an application so the committee can finish its work”
  • Site acres: 239 acres
    “Dobson Farms East (approximately 239 acres) occupies the northeast corner of Arizona Farms Road and Attaway Road”
  • Landowner: Dobson Farms / Chris Dobson (owner-applicant of record for PZ-25-55, via CVL Consultants)
    “Julie Vermillion of CVL Consultants, representing the owner Chris Dobson”
  • Water use stated: ~1,000,000 gal/day at full build-out of the rezoned Dobson Farms areas (applicant estimate), vs ~3,000,000 gal/day under the prior residential plan
    “water use would fall to roughly one-third of the previously planned residential project, dropping from 3 million gallons per day to about 1 million”
  • Land control status: Land owned by Dobson Farms (landowner-applicant); no purchase, option, or closing by EdgeCore found
    “Ryan Companies is listed as the developer. Dobson Family Farms is listed as the landowner”

Imagery and records: Satellite imagery: Maxar via Esri World Imagery Wayback; Sentinel-2 (ESA Copernicus).