How many jobs does Google have open in Arizona right now?

Arizona AI is not tracking any open Google roles in Arizona at the moment. Listings refresh automatically twice a day.

How do I apply for a job at Google in Arizona?

Each listing on this page links through to Google's own application page. Arizona AI does not collect applications or charge job seekers, and roles are aggregated from the employer's official careers system rather than from third-party recruiters.

Where is Google's data center in Arizona?

Google's Arizona data center campus, called Red Hawk in city records, is at 7232 E Elliot Road in Mesa, on 187 acres at the northwest corner of Elliot and Sossaman Roads in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor. The first building received its certificate of occupancy from the City of Mesa on August 8, 2025. A second building is under construction and a third went through design review in October 2025. Google's 2026 Environmental Report also lists a separate air-cooled "Phoenix, AZ" data center location that Google does not name; Arizona AI's inference is that it is leased space in a third-party facility.

Is Google's Mesa data center open?

The City of Mesa issued a certificate of occupancy for the first building on August 8, 2025, and listing sites such as Cleanview and Baxtel show it operating. Google has not announced a go-live date. A separate city permit issued September 3, 2025 covers installing equipment that was excluded from the certificate of occupancy. Google's data center locations page lists Mesa, Arizona without marking it as in development, and its 2026 Environmental Report lists Mesa water use for 2025.

How much did Google invest in Mesa?

Google announced a new $600 million data center in Mesa in September 2023. The 2019 development agreement requires at least $1 billion of cumulative capital investment across three phases by July 2029 to receive the full water allowance, and press reports have called it a $1 billion project. Google has not published its actual spending.

How much power does Google's Mesa data center use?

A City of Mesa permit for the first building's heating, cooling and plumbing describes it as an 80-MW data center. Google itself publishes no figure, and Arizona AI's data center records carry an earlier listing-site estimate of 138 MW for each of the three buildings. The campus is an SRP customer. Google's SRP agreement supports more than 430 MW of new carbon-free capacity from three NextEra solar, wind and battery projects (509 MW of nameplate capacity combined), which SRP says will help match the campus's electricity use.

How much water does Google's Mesa data center use?

Google reports 19.4 million gallons withdrawn and 9.7 million gallons consumed at Mesa in 2025 in its 2026 Environmental Report; the first building received its certificate of occupancy in August 2025. Google says the data center is air-cooled. The 2019 development agreement lets the city supply 1,120 acre-feet a year (about 1 million gallons a day) at signing, rising to 4,480 acre-feet a year if all three milestones are met; the city says that allowance is not a measure of actual demand.

Did Google get tax breaks in Mesa?

Yes. Mesa approved a 25-year Government Property Lease Excise Tax lease with Stone Applications LLC, the company named in the Google deal, in July 2019. The city projected the company would pay about $33.0 million in excise taxes over the term instead of an estimated $48.9 million in regular property taxes, a difference reported as about $16 million. The city also expected about $156.6 million in total tax revenue to all entities over 25 years. The 2019 council report said the project was expected to be built to the state Computer Data Center Program standard, but the state does not publish certified companies. In June 2026 Arizona leaders agreed to a budget deal with a three-year pause on tax exemptions for new data centers, as reported before the legislative vote; data centers already receiving the breaks are not affected.

Is there a Google Cloud region in Arizona?

Not as of October 2026. Google announced in September 2023 that a Google Cloud region was coming to Phoenix, but Google Cloud's regions documentation lists nine U.S. regions and none in Arizona, and Google has given no opening date.

Does Google hire in Arizona?

Google does not publish an Arizona headcount. As of October 17, 2026, its careers site listed two Mesa-based roles, a data center facilities technician and a community development manager, plus Phoenix and Chandler roles tied to third-party data centers; listings change often. The 2019 development agreement requires an average salary of at least $65,000 for full-time jobs on the campus but sets no job count.

Google in Arizona

Google's data center campus in Mesa, Arizona, which Google says is air-cooled, supports Search, Gmail, Maps and Google Cloud; more buildings are planned.

Mesa, AZ · 1998 · 190,820 worldwide (December 31, 2025, company-wide, Alphabet 10-K); Arizona headcount not published

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Google in Arizona: Key Developments

Oct 29, 2026
From big ideas to successful business ventures, a decade of Demo Day
Sandul Gangodagamage has always been interested in tech startups and knew as a preteen that he wanted to start his own company. He read about companies like Apple and Google in tech magazines every day in school before starting his own, Legion Platforms, at just 15 years old. 
Sep 30, 2026
Why Your Business Might Be Invisible to AI Search
A growing share of the questions that used to begin on a search results page now begin in a chat window. A customer looking for a Chandler accountant or a Tempe HVAC company may ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews and act on the answer without ever seeing a list of blue links. For … [More] The post Why Your Business Might Be Invisible to AI Search appeared first on Greater Phoenix In Business Magazine.
May 11, 2026
Google selects U of A for quantum research group focused on life sciences
The Research Program at the Intersection of Life Sciences Quantum AI, or REPLIQA, brings together U of A researchers from science and engineering fields to lay a foundation for new biological discoveries.
Oct 16, 2025
Google Planning Next Phase of Mesa Data Center Facility
Google submitted a roughly 283,500 sq ft third data center with two server halls to Mesa design review, and permitting showed construction of the second building under way since March 2025.
Jul 2, 2025
Mesa P&Z Recommends Data Center Zoning Restrictions
Mesa's Planning and Zoning Board recommended defining data centers in city code and allowing them as a principal use in general and heavy industrial districts and as an accessory use in commercial and employment districts; the measure moved to the City Council. Arizona AI note: Google's Mesa campus was approved in 2019, before these rules.
Apr 10, 2024
Google files to build second data center at Mesa campus in Arizona
Google took a 280,000 sq ft second building and a campus office called Redhawk HUB to the Mesa Design Review Board.
Mar 14, 2024
Our work to build a more sustainable future in Arizona
Google announced an SRP energy supply agreement for more than 430 MW of new wind, solar and storage from three NextEra facilities, projected to bring its Arizona operations to at least 80% hourly carbon-free energy by 2026, and said the Mesa center would open in 2025.
Sep 6, 2023
Google Announces New Commitment to Mesa
Google, Governor Hobbs and Mayor Giles marked a $600 million air-cooled data center in Mesa, Google's first Arizona facility, and Google said a Google Cloud region was coming to Phoenix and gave $150,000 to an SRP watershed fund.
Jul 12, 2023
Google breaks ground on Mesa data center campus in Arizona
Work began on the first 288,530 sq ft building of the campus formerly known as Redhawk, with the full 750,000 sq ft build-out planned across three phases by 2030.
Apr 1, 2020
Google Data Centers' Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water
A Bloomberg investigation used the Mesa deal as its lead example, reporting that Google was guaranteed 1 million gallons a day rising to 4 million if it hit milestones, in a city that gets half its water from the Colorado River.
Jul 1, 2019
Google looking at Mesa
The Mesa City Council approved a development agreement and 25-year GPLET lease with Stone Applications LLC, a Google entity, for a data center on 187 acres at Elliot and Sossaman Roads; the city said the milestone minimums do not reflect the actual project scope.

How does Google fit into AI?

Modern AI runs on physical silicon, and that silicon passes through several hands before it ever answers a question. Here is the path, and where Google sits on it. Stages not marked below are shown for context and are not claims about Google.

Chip design: Companies like Nvidia, Apple and AMD design the chips. Chip designers decide what a chip does and hand the blueprint to a factory. The three companies whose designs matter most to AI - Nvidia, Apple and AMD - do that work elsewhere, then send the designs to fabs. None of them owns a fab of its own.
Wafer fabrication: Fabs print billions of transistors onto silicon wafers. A fab prints a design onto a polished disc of silicon called a wafer, layer by layer, until billions of transistors exist where there was blank material. It is the hardest and most expensive step in the chain, and the reason a single factory can cost tens of billions of dollars.
Advanced packaging: Wafers are cut and assembled into finished chips. Packaging cuts a finished wafer into individual chips and assembles them, often stacking several pieces of silicon and memory into one component. For AI chips this step is nearly as demanding as fabrication, and a wafer is not a usable product until it is done.
Servers and devices: Chips are built into AI servers, phones and PCs. Finished chips are assembled into the things people actually buy and deploy: data-center servers, phones, laptops. This is where a chip stops being a component and starts being a product.
AI in use (here today): Data centers and devices run AI models on that silicon. Google data center in Mesa supports Search, Gmail, Maps and Google Cloud. The end of the chain: models answering questions, generating images and driving software, running on the silicon every earlier step produced. Every AI service anyone uses is running on physical hardware somewhere, and that hardware started as a wafer.

Google: AI in use (here today)

Google ties the Mesa build to its AI and cloud growth (company-reported): Google said in 2023 that its data center investment, including Mesa, "plays a critical role in supporting the company's AI innovations and growing Cloud business"; it has not said what hardware runs in Mesa. Source: City of Mesa (Mesa Now)
Google says Mesa is air-cooled; its SRP deal supports 430+ MW of new clean power (company-reported): Google said Mesa would use air cooling and signed an SRP supply agreement supporting more than 430 MW of new carbon-free capacity; its 2025 hourly carbon-free share on the SRP grid was 86% by its own metric. Source: Google (The Keyword)
A Phoenix Google Cloud region was promised in 2023 and has not appeared (announced): Google announced a Phoenix cloud region alongside the Mesa groundbreaking in September 2023; as of October 2026 Google Cloud lists no Arizona region and has given no date. Source: Google Cloud

About Google

What Google does

Google, the search, advertising and cloud business of Alphabet Inc., is building its Arizona data center campus in Mesa. Known in city records as Red Hawk, it sits on 187 acres at Elliot and Sossaman Roads, and Google says it supports:

Search
Gmail
Maps
Google Cloud

In Arizona

Arizona AI tracks three Google data center records in Arizona, all on this campus:

Building 1: Google Mesa Building 1, which received its certificate of occupancy on August 8, 2025 and which listing sites show operating.
Building 2: under construction since at least early 2025.
Building 3: in design review in October 2025.

How the project started: The project surfaced in 2019 through Stone Applications LLC, a Delaware company. Mesa's council record titles the deal "Stone Applications, LLC - Google", the development agreement and lease are in that company's name, and 2025 design filings list it as owner. Mesa rezoned the farmland on April 1, 2019, and on July 1, 2019 the council approved the development agreement and a 25-year GPLET property tax lease.

Construction milestones: The agreement sets three milestones, ending with 750,000 square feet and $1 billion of capital investment before July 1, 2029; the first, 250,000 square feet and $600 million, fell due July 1, 2025.

Groundbreaking: Construction started in July 2023, and on September 6, 2023 Google marked the project with Governor Katie Hobbs, announcing a new $600 million data center and a Google Cloud region "coming to Phoenix."

Water: Water was the fight. The 2019 agreement commits Mesa to a water allowance of 1,120 acre-feet a year at signing, rising with each milestone to a cap of 4,480, roughly 1 million to 4 million gallons a day.

Bloomberg made the deal its lead example of data center water demand in April 2020, and in 2021 Vice Mayor Jenn Duff, the lone vote against a different Mesa data center, called data centers "an irresponsible use of our water." Google says Mesa is air-cooled; its 2026 Environmental Report lists 19.4 million gallons withdrawn and 9.7 million consumed there in 2025, about 30 acre-feet, the year the first building received its certificate of occupancy.

Tax terms: The city projected about $33.0 million in excise taxes over the 25-year lease instead of an estimated $48.9 million in property taxes. The development agreement sets no job count; it requires an average salary of at least $65,000.

Jobs: In the 2023 city release Rep. Greg Stanton said the project means "hundreds" of jobs. Beyond Mesa, Google's careers site lists Phoenix and Chandler roles for third-party data centers. Current openings are in the jobs section of this page.

Role in AI and technology

Power supply: In March 2024 Google announced a supply agreement with Salt River Project, the campus's utility, that supports more than 430 MW of new carbon-free capacity from three NextEra projects:

Sonoran Solar: 260 MW with a 1 GWh battery.
Storey: 88 MW.
Babbitt Ranch wind: 161 MW.

Google's 2026 Environmental Report puts its hourly carbon-free energy share on the SRP grid at 86% for 2025.

Other Arizona services: Google Fiber serves customers in Chandler and Mesa and began Tempe construction in 2025. Waymo, an Alphabet company, has its own page.

Risks and open questions

Power figures: A City of Mesa permit for the first building's heating, cooling and plumbing calls it an 80-MW data center. Google itself publishes no power figure, and Arizona AI's data center records carry an earlier listing-site estimate of 138 MW per building.

Milestone status: The first building's occupancy certificate arrived about five weeks after the first milestone date; Arizona AI found no city statement on whether the milestone was met.

Phoenix location: Google's 2026 Environmental Report also lists a separate air-cooled "Phoenix, AZ" data center location that Google does not identify; Arizona AI's inference is that it is leased space in a third-party facility.

Rules: In July 2025 Mesa adopted Ordinance 5957, which:

defines data centers
directs new ones mainly to industrial districts
requires council approval

Already-proposed projects may continue.

Incentives: In June 2026 Arizona leaders agreed to a budget deal with a three-year pause on tax exemptions for new data centers, as reported before the legislative vote; existing breaks would not be affected.

Unconfirmed plans: Google Cloud listed no Arizona region in October 2026. Google has not said whether Mesa hosts TPUs or GPUs; its design filings redact server hall equipment. Listing-site dates of 2026 and 2027 for Buildings 2 and 3 are unconfirmed by Google.

Research

Papers from the past 12 months in Arizona AI's research catalog with an author affiliated with Google, as indexed by OpenAlex. Company authors may work outside Arizona.

Paras: Actively Secure Two-Server Private Histograms
Aug 3, 2026 · IACR Communications in Cryptology · Journal article Read paper
ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?
May 11, 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Preprint Read paper
Mid-Training with Self-Generated Data Improves Reinforcement Learning in Language Models
May 8, 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Preprint Read paper

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Google in Arizona: By the Numbers

Each figure is dated and linked to its source. Figures that are company-reported, announced, or projected rather than measured are labeled.

Arizona data center records tracked by Arizona AI: 3 buildings on one Mesa campus: 1 operating, 2 planned
Mesa Building 1 power rating (city permit): 80 MW (City of Mesa permit; earlier listing-site estimate 138 MW)
Announced Mesa data center investment: $600 million data center (announced September 2023) (announced)
Groundbreaking of first Arizona data center: July 2023: construction started on Building 1 in Mesa
Employees (company-wide): 190,820 worldwide (Dec 31, 2025, company-wide) (company-reported)
What the Mesa campus does: Google data center supporting Search, Gmail, Maps and Google Cloud; site held by Stone Applications LLC under a city GPLET lease (company-reported)

The Arizona build-out, 2019 to 2027

2019: Red Hawk rezoning approved
2019: Development agreement and GPLET lease approved
2023: Groundbreaking of first Arizona data center
2024: SRP carbon-free energy agreement
2025: Red Hawk Building 1, Mesa: opened
2025: Mesa data center zoning ordinance
2026: Red Hawk Building 2, Mesa: expected in service (projected)
2027: Red Hawk Building 3, Mesa: expected in service (projected)

Google Red Hawk Building 1, Mesa, Arizona

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
General contractor (permit)	JE Dunn Construction (J.E. Dunn - Haydon, a Joint Venture, applicant)	2023-11-09	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Status	Certificate of occupancy issued August 8, 2025; listing sites show it operating; Google has announced no go-live date	2026-10-17	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Capacity	138 MW (listing-site estimate; Google publishes no figure)	2026-10-17	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	Cleanview
Building size	288,530 sq ft (planned first phase, 2023 report)	2023-07-12	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	Data Center Dynamics
Opened	August 2025: certificate of occupancy issued (Google gave no go-live date)	2025-08-08	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Address	7232 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ 85212	2026-10-28	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Role	Single-story data center with multiple server halls, a utility switchyard and a medium-voltage substation serving the data center	2023-05-31	company-reported From the company's own published information.	HDR Engineering for Stone Applications LLC, via City of Mesa
Cooling	Air-cooled (Google statement)	2024-03-14	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google (The Keyword)

Google Red Hawk Building 2, Mesa, Arizona

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Status	Under construction (building permit issued December 10, 2024; construction reported under way by March 2025)	2025-10-16	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Capacity	138 MW (listing-site estimate; Google publishes no figure)	2026-10-17	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	Cleanview
Building size	280,000 sq ft (plan at design review, April 2024)	2024-04-10	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	Phoenix Business Journal via Arizona Technology Council
Expected in service	2026 (listing-site estimate; Google has given no date)	2026-10-17	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	Cleanview
Campus office (Redhawk HUB)	One-story office and support building for the campus, permitted March 12, 2025 (PMT24-11833, 11,638 sq ft)	2025-03-12	verified	City of Mesa Open Data
Address	7232 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ 85212	2026-10-28	verified	City of Mesa (Legistar)
Role	Second data center building with its own mechanical and electrical yards and medium-voltage substation, designed identical to Building 1	2023-05-31	company-reported From the company's own published information.	HDR Engineering for Stone Applications LLC, via City of Mesa

Google Red Hawk Building 3, Mesa, Arizona

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Capacity	138 MW (listing-site estimate; Google publishes no figure)	2026-10-17	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	Cleanview
Building size	About 283,500 sq ft (design review submittal, October 2025)	2025-10-16	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	AZBEX
Expected in service	2027 (listing-site estimate; Google has given no date)	2026-10-17	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	Cleanview
Address	7232 E Elliot Rd, Mesa, AZ 85212	2026-10-28	verified	HDR Engineering for Stone Applications LLC, via City of Mesa
Status	Planned (design review October 14, 2025; grading permit issued September 11, 2025)	2025-10-14	verified	City of Mesa (Legistar)
Design review request	Alternative compliance requested for wall and roof articulation and materials under the Mesa Zoning Ordinance	2025-10-16	verified	AZBEX
Role	Single-story data center with two server halls, mechanical and electrical yards and a medium-voltage substation; completes the planned three-building campus	2025-09-24	company-reported From the company's own published information.	HDR Engineering for Stone Applications LLC, via City of Mesa

Facilities

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Building 1 power rating in city permit	80 MW (City of Mesa permit description, June 2025)	2025-06-12	verified	City of Mesa Open Data

Investment

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Development agreement and GPLET lease approved	July 2019: Mesa council approved the Stone Applications (Google) development agreement	2019-07-01	verified	City of Mesa (Legistar)
Development agreement capital milestone (full campus)	$1 billion minimum cumulative capital investment by July 1, 2029 (three milestones)	2019-07-01	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	City of Mesa
GPLET property tax lease (incentive)	About $33.0 million in excise taxes over a 25-year GPLET lease (city projection)	2019-06-27	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	City of Mesa Office of Economic Development
Projected tax revenue, all entities, 25 years	$156.6 million projected over 25 years (city estimate, 2019)	2019-06-27	projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.	City of Mesa Office of Economic Development
Arizona Computer Data Center Program	Project expected to be built to the Green Standard of the state Computer Data Center Program; certification not published	2019-07-01	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	City of Mesa
Budget deal to pause new data center tax exemptions	In June 2026 Arizona's state budget deal included a three-year pause on tax exemptions for new data centers; data centers already receiving the breaks are not affected	2026-06-09	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	azfamily (KTVK/KPHO)
Community grants tied to Mesa	$250,000 named: $100,000 Mesa College Promise and $150,000 SRP watershed fund	2024-03-14	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	Google (The Keyword)

Workforce

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Pay floor in development agreement	$65,000 minimum average annual compensation for full-time jobs on the campus; no job count required	2019-07-01	verified	City of Mesa
Arizona headcount	Not published. Google listed two Mesa-based roles on October 17, 2026; in the 2023 city release Rep. Greg Stanton said the project means "hundreds" of jobs, and Google gave no number	2026-10-17	verified	Google

Production

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
SRP carbon-free energy agreement	March 2024: Google and SRP agreed on 430+ MW of new wind, solar and storage	2024-03-14	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	Google (The Keyword)
Carbon-free energy on SRP grid (Google metric)	86% hourly carbon-free energy for Google load on SRP in 2025 (73% contracted, 13% from the grid mix)	2025-12-31	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google
Power supply arrangement	SRP grid customer; Google's SRP agreement supports more than 430 MW of new carbon-free capacity from three NextEra projects, Sonoran Solar (260 MW solar, 1 GWh battery), Storey (88 MW solar and storage) and Babbitt Ranch (161 MW wind), which SRP says will help match the campus's electricity use	2024-03-15	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	In Business Phoenix
Google Cloud region in Arizona	Announced for Phoenix in September 2023; not listed among Google Cloud regions as of October 2026	2026-10-15	announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.	Google Cloud
Other Google data center use in Arizona	Google reports a separate "Phoenix, AZ" data center location (air-cooled, 0.1 million gallons consumed in 2025); the facility is not named	2025-12-31	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google

Water and environment

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Cooling design	Google says the Mesa data center uses air cooling, in line with what it calls its climate-conscious approach to water and energy	2023-09-06	company-reported From the company's own published information.	City of Mesa (Mesa Now)
Mesa water consumption, 2025	9.7 million gallons consumed in 2025 (19.4 million withdrawn, 9.7 million discharged)	2025-12-31	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google
City water allowance in development agreement	1,120 acre-feet per year at signing, rising to a maximum of 4,480 AFY if all three milestones are met	2019-07-01	verified	City of Mesa
Backup water provisions	Two existing on-site wells may be used during maintenance, outages or shortage measures; up to 1,344 acre-feet of long-term storage credits can be transferred to the city	2019-07-01	verified	City of Mesa
Water debate in Mesa	The 2019 deal's water guarantee drew national criticism in 2020 and 2021; the Mesa council later split 6-1 on a different data center over water	2021-06-19	verified	Bloomberg via Data Center Knowledge

Other

Measure	Value	As of	Basis	Source
Red Hawk rezoning approved	April 2019: Mesa council rezoned 187 acres to a new Employment Opportunity district	2019-04-01	verified	City of Mesa (Legistar)
Mesa data center zoning ordinance	July 2025: Mesa adopted data center zoning rules (Ordinance 5957)	2025-07-14	verified	KJZZ
Google's Arizona economic activity claim (company estimate)	Google says it helped provide $18.2 billion of economic activity for Arizona businesses in 2025, a company estimate of customer activity, not Google spending	2026-10-17	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google
Land owner of record	Stone Applications LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Mesa's council record titles the deal "Stone Applications, LLC - Google"	2025-09-24	verified	HDR Engineering for Stone Applications LLC, via City of Mesa
Ownership and headquarters (company-wide)	Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG), headquartered in Mountain View, California; founded 1998	2025-12-31	verified	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Capital spending (company-wide)	$91.4 billion of property and equipment purchases in 2025, company-wide, with a significant increase expected in 2026; no Arizona breakdown	2025-12-31	verified	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Mesa tightened data center rules after the campus was approved	In 2025 Mesa directed new data centers mainly to industrial districts and added council approval and environmental review; already-proposed projects may continue, and Red Hawk was approved in 2019	2025-07-07	verified	Mesa Tribune via Arizona Technology Council
Opposition, lawsuits or delays specific to the Google campus	Arizona AI found no lawsuit, zoning denial, organized neighborhood opposition or announced delay specific to the Red Hawk campus	2026-10-17	verified	City of Mesa (Legistar)
Other Google operations in Arizona	Google Fiber (GFiber) serves customers in Chandler and Mesa, opened a Mesa office in 2024 and began Tempe construction in June 2025	2025-06-18	company-reported From the company's own published information.	Google Fiber (GFiber blog)

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Google in Arizona: Common Questions

How many jobs does Google have open in Arizona right now?: Arizona AI is not tracking any open Google roles in Arizona at the moment. Listings refresh automatically twice a day.
How do I apply for a job at Google in Arizona?: Each listing on this page links through to Google's own application page. Arizona AI does not collect applications or charge job seekers, and roles are aggregated from the employer's official careers system rather than from third-party recruiters.
Where is Google's data center in Arizona?: Google's Arizona data center campus, called Red Hawk in city records, is at 7232 E Elliot Road in Mesa, on 187 acres at the northwest corner of Elliot and Sossaman Roads in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor. The first building received its certificate of occupancy from the City of Mesa on August 8, 2025. A second building is under construction and a third went through design review in October 2025. Google's 2026 Environmental Report also lists a separate air-cooled "Phoenix, AZ" data center location that Google does not name; Arizona AI's inference is that it is leased space in a third-party facility.
Is Google's Mesa data center open?: The City of Mesa issued a certificate of occupancy for the first building on August 8, 2025, and listing sites such as Cleanview and Baxtel show it operating. Google has not announced a go-live date. A separate city permit issued September 3, 2025 covers installing equipment that was excluded from the certificate of occupancy. Google's data center locations page lists Mesa, Arizona without marking it as in development, and its 2026 Environmental Report lists Mesa water use for 2025.
How much did Google invest in Mesa?: Google announced a new $600 million data center in Mesa in September 2023. The 2019 development agreement requires at least $1 billion of cumulative capital investment across three phases by July 2029 to receive the full water allowance, and press reports have called it a $1 billion project. Google has not published its actual spending.
How much power does Google's Mesa data center use?: A City of Mesa permit for the first building's heating, cooling and plumbing describes it as an 80-MW data center. Google itself publishes no figure, and Arizona AI's data center records carry an earlier listing-site estimate of 138 MW for each of the three buildings. The campus is an SRP customer. Google's SRP agreement supports more than 430 MW of new carbon-free capacity from three NextEra solar, wind and battery projects (509 MW of nameplate capacity combined), which SRP says will help match the campus's electricity use.
How much water does Google's Mesa data center use?: Google reports 19.4 million gallons withdrawn and 9.7 million gallons consumed at Mesa in 2025 in its 2026 Environmental Report; the first building received its certificate of occupancy in August 2025. Google says the data center is air-cooled. The 2019 development agreement lets the city supply 1,120 acre-feet a year (about 1 million gallons a day) at signing, rising to 4,480 acre-feet a year if all three milestones are met; the city says that allowance is not a measure of actual demand.
Did Google get tax breaks in Mesa?: Yes. Mesa approved a 25-year Government Property Lease Excise Tax lease with Stone Applications LLC, the company named in the Google deal, in July 2019. The city projected the company would pay about $33.0 million in excise taxes over the term instead of an estimated $48.9 million in regular property taxes, a difference reported as about $16 million. The city also expected about $156.6 million in total tax revenue to all entities over 25 years. The 2019 council report said the project was expected to be built to the state Computer Data Center Program standard, but the state does not publish certified companies. In June 2026 Arizona leaders agreed to a budget deal with a three-year pause on tax exemptions for new data centers, as reported before the legislative vote; data centers already receiving the breaks are not affected.
Is there a Google Cloud region in Arizona?: Not as of October 2026. Google announced in September 2023 that a Google Cloud region was coming to Phoenix, but Google Cloud's regions documentation lists nine U.S. regions and none in Arizona, and Google has given no opening date.
Does Google hire in Arizona?: Google does not publish an Arizona headcount. As of October 17, 2026, its careers site listed two Mesa-based roles, a data center facilities technician and a community development manager, plus Phoenix and Chandler roles tied to third-party data centers; listings change often. The 2019 development agreement requires an average salary of at least $65,000 for full-time jobs on the campus but sets no job count.