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Data centers in Imperial County, California

Imperial County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Imperial County has a scorecard row with no rating yet. The latest decision on the record: Imperial County Superior Court Judge Brooks Anderholt issued a ruling halting development of a data center complex and ordering county officials to analyze its potential environmental impacts, September 10, 2026.

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The data center in Imperial County

Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.

  1. Reported In courtBuilt from one source

    Imperial Valley AI Data Center

    Imperial County · Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing

    Latest, reported September 12, 2026: Original recycled water cooling plan fell apart facebook.com local outlet

    Land
    Not disclosed
    Power
    Not disclosed
    Water
    Not disclosed
    Tenant
    Not disclosed

Where

1 data center in Imperial County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.

The outline is Imperial County's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.

What Imperial County has decided

1 body, 1 decision on the record

What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.

Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.

  1. Imperial Countycounty

    Imperial County Superior Court Judge Brooks Anderholt issued a ruling halting development of a data center complex and ordering county officials to analyze its potential environmental impacts, reported September 10, 2026.

    kpbs.org local outlet

    no published rating
    1 act on this row
    1. litigation

      Imperial County Superior Court Judge Brooks Anderholt issued a ruling halting development of a data center complex and ordering county officials to analyze its potential environmental impacts

      kpbs.org local outlet

    Last verified September 23, 2026.

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What happened

  1. · Imperial County

    Litigation: Imperial County Superior Court Judge Brooks Anderholt issued a ruling halting development of a data center complex and ordering county officials to analyze its potential environmental impacts kpbs.org local outlet

  2. · Imperial Valley AI Data Center

    Now reported: Developer filed lawsuit against activist and environmental nonprofit for defamation and alleged greenmail thedesertreview.com local outlet

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Nearby counties with records

82 miles away San Diego County 1 data center on the record 146 miles away Orange County 1 data center on the record 185 miles away Los Angeles County 8 data centers on the record · pause on the record 235 miles away Ventura County 1 data center on the record

Every California county.

Disclosed figures

nothing disclosed by 1 record

Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.

Power, water, jobs and tax

FigureDisclosed totalDisclosedNot disclosedBasis
PowerNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per dayNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Permanent jobsNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Tax each yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.

By what the facilities are for

UseRecordsPowerWaterJobsTax each year
Not disclosed1Not disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year

A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

What the facilities are for

No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Imperial County is for.

How the facilities are cooled

No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Imperial County is cooled.

Cite this page

Data Center Record, "Data centers in Imperial County, California", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ca/imperial-county, updated September 25, 2026.

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Place id
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Census GEOID
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