La Osa Awaiting decision
Originally 59 data centers + 2 gas plants on 3,300 acres; scaled back 80% to 11 data centers (1 GW) after ~60 verbal comments and 50 emails all opposing.
Key facts
- Operator
- Vermaland
- Size
- 1,000 MW
- Acres
- 3,300
- Location
- Pinal County (near Eloy), Arizona
- Hearing
- 2026-08-26
- Stage today
- Awaiting decision
Source
read 2026-08-19
What to do next
Next step: Heard 2026-08-26; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.
What has happened so far (1 event)
- 2026-05-28hearing
Board heard rezoning; ~60 verbal comments and 50 emails all opposed. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Arizona DEQ — Air Quality DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Arizona DEQ — Air Quality Division for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Pinal County (near Eloy) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Pinal County (near Eloy) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- No organised market covers this statenoteThere is no public queue to read. The record is the utility's integrated resource plan and its filings at the PUC — plus FERC eLibrary for anything federally docketed.
- Arizona Corporation Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 32.740, -111.550 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Arizona briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Arizona
- Google Mesa — Mesa, 50 mi
- Microsoft Goodyear — Goodyear, 66 mi
- Stream Phoenix — Goodyear, 66 mi
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “La Osa”, aigridwatch.com/projects/vermaland-la-osa-pinal-az, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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