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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM)
- Address and locality
- Imperial · Imperial County · California
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 330 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000835
What the source record says
Coordinates approximate; actual site is near Aten Road and Clark Road just outside Imperial city limits. Developer Sebastian Rucci (Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing) proposes ~950,000 sq ft facility described by developer as 'designed exclusively for advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning operations.' Imperial County Board of Supervisors was deliberating an emergency moratorium on new data center approvals as of June 4, 2026 — adoption not confirmed by cited source. Annual promised tax revenue: ~$28M.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-04 · reported proposed
Imperial County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to vacate a public right-of-way and approve a lot merger across 75 acres related to the project site; Chairperson Price subsequently clarified the vote 'did not approve, authorize, or commit to any future development'
- 2026-06 · reported proposed
Imperial County Board of Supervisors began deliberating an emergency moratorium on new data center approvals; adoption not confirmed as of cited June 4, 2026 source. IVCM entangled in numerous lawsuits including federal civil rights suit against City of Imperial; proceedings regarding IID Colorado River water rights ongoing.
Sources and attribution
- California's Largest Data Center Plan Rouses Imperial County · inewsource
- Data Center Moratorium? Imperial County Considers It · inewsource
- AI Data Center Plan Energizes Opposition in California Desert · inewsource
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID ivcm-imperial-county-ca. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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