Marana’s proposed facility now has the formal name “Luckett Road North and South Data Centers,” but it’s still unclear if that means one or two distinct builds.
The site is about a mile from the nearest home but directly across from the Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery, which is driving most of the local opposition.
Town leaders are stressing that the project will be air‑cooled, use no municipal water, and would require a full new approval process if the developer tries to switch to water‑cooled designs later.
Power draw and rate impacts will be governed by the Arizona Corporation Commission, signaling that any large GPU or AI build-out will be constrained by state-level utility oversight rather than town politics.
Officials are also warning residents that aggressive pushback could trigger state or federal preemption and actually reduce local control over where high‑density data centers and AI workloads land.
Noise is being downplayed (promised to be around conversational level), which suggests a standard hyperscale design with attention to sound mitigation but no ultra-exotic cooling or on‑site generation.
For anyone tracking siting, cooling, and regulatory risk around new AI-capable data center capacity in the Southwest, this link is worth a close read.
