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Redale data center, Mesa, in order

What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.

4 events, June 19, 2021 to December 2025. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 5 statements and 10 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Arizona.

A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.

Stages

  1. reported

Now: reported. A stage is the record's status after the entry that set it (the definitions).

2021 1 event

  1. (content date)

    reported

    Mesa City Council approved an $800 million data center development on May 17, 2021 [2]

  2. Also in June 2021: 5 statements

    1. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Jenn Duff, Mesa Vice Mayor

      Mesa Vice Mayor Jenn Duff said the driest 12 months in 126 years occurred at the time of the vote and data centers are an irresponsible use of water NBC News national outlet

    2. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Landon Marston, Virginia Tech Researcher

      Landon Marston, lead author of a Virginia Tech paper, stated researchers are unsure about the degree to which environmental considerations are in data center siting decisions NBC News national outlet

    3. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Venkatesh Uddameri, Professor and Director, Texas Tech University Water Resources Center

      Venkatesh Uddameri, professor and director of the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech University, stated the typical data center uses about 3-5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of a city of 30,000-50,000 people NBC News national outlet

    4. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Sergio Loureiro, Vice President of Core Operations, Microsoft

      Sergio Loureiro, vice president of core operations for Microsoft, said the company has pledged to be water positive by 2030, meaning it plans to replenish more water than it consumes globally NBC News national outlet

    5. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Gary Demasi, Senior Director of Energy and Location Operations, Google

      Gary Demasi, senior director of energy and location operations at Google, said the company is working to utilize water more efficiently and exploring ways to incorporate circularity NBC News national outlet

2025 3 events

  1. Also in June 2025: 2 lines that are not events of their own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Mesa (city)

      Proposed 60 foot height limit for data centers themesatribune.com

    2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Mesa (city)

      Proposed 400 foot setback from residential areas for data centers themesatribune.com

  2. (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Jul 14, 2025)

    Decision · Mesa (city)

    Mesa City Council adopted new zoning rules for data centers and their operations in a City Council vote in July 2025 kjzz.org

  3. (content date)

    Decision · Mesa (city)

    Mesa City Council unanimously approved data center amendments on July 8, 2025, with two members absent themesatribune.com

  4. Also in July 2025: 1 line that is not an event of its own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Mesa (city)

      Mesa data center ordinance restricts future projects to land zoned for industrial use themesatribune.com

  5. Also in August 2025: 2 lines that are not events of their own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Mesa (city)

      Mesa data centers will need City Council approval to build under new regulations kjzz.org

    2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Mesa (city)

      New Mesa zoning amendments direct data centers to heavy industrial zones and general industrial zones kjzz.org

  6. (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Dec 11, 2025)

    Decision · Maricopa County (county)

    Maricopa County Board of Supervisors overhauled its zoning ordinance at a meeting Wednesday in December 2025 kjzz.org

  7. Also in December 2025: 3 lines that are not events of their own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Maricopa County (county)

      It is the first time data centers have been defined in county zoning rules kjzz.org

    2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Maricopa County (county)

      The modernized ordinance updated how the county defines a data center and restricts them to industrial areas kjzz.org

    3. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Maricopa County (county)

      Maricopa County adopted a new ordinance clarifying guidelines for data center development bizjournals.com

2026 2 under the months

  1. Also in June 2026: 1 line that is not an event of its own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Chandler (city)

      Chandler capped data center water use youtube.com

  2. Also in September 2026: 1 line that is not an event of its own

    1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

      Decision · Gilbert (city)

      Gilbert leaders want strict rules on data centers to make it hard for server farms to set up shop; new rules expected in September but delayed to October or November. watereducation.org

On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.

For researchers
Slug
meta-redale-mesa-data-center-az
Status value
rumored
Events on the timeline
4
Under the months
15
Stage changes
1
Decisions
13
Statements
5
Figures
0
Entries and decisions under the months
10