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The Data Center Divide

Yuma County

Mixed Data Center Policies

Arizona’s rules include equipment-tax benefits for qualifying data centers, but an enacted three-year restriction blocks new tax-relief applications; some descriptions nevertheless use prospective wording. Planning requirements and seasonal limits on local construction-noise restrictions also affect projects.

Rating and summary from Arizona statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Yuma County.

Specific to Yuma County only.

failed · County measure
Would require Arizona counties with more than 125,000 residents to designate land for data centers in their comprehensive plans without preventing their construction or operation.Arizona HB2452 (2026)

What this means

This would require counties with more than 125,000 people to plan for where data centers can be built, and the plan must not effectively prevent their use (designations shall be sufficient). That could make it easier to find land for data centers, but it does not provide funding or guarantee project approval, so the benefit is moderate.

People behind it

  • Prime sponsor and introducer of HB 2452.

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  • A county’s comprehensive plan may include studies and recommendations on electric-power production and demand, expressly including data centers; this is optional, not required. The plan may include studies and recommendations

  • Counties with populations over 125,000 must designate land in their comprehensive plans for data center construction and operation, with designations sufficient not to prevent or prohibit effective use of land for those purposes. Other counties may include this planning. Counties meeting the population threshold must amend their plans within two years of the act’s effective date. Designations shall be sufficient

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