id: imperial-valley-computer-manufacturing-imperial-county
name: Imperial County AI campus
status: announced
location:
  country: US
  state: CA
  county: Imperial County
metrics:
  capacity_mw: 330
  building_sqft: 1000000
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: medium
sources:
  - url: https://inewsource.org/2026/04/05/data-center-developer-imperial-county/
    title: "Data center developer Imperial County"
    publisher: inewsource
    date: "2026-04-05"
signals:
  - sig-20260706-imperial-valley-developer
  - sig-20260706-imperial-valley-mw
  - sig-20260706-imperial-valley-sqft
  - sig-20260706-imperial-valley-status
notes: >-
  Single source (inewsource, medium-confidence signals). Proposed and
  contested: the Planning Commission declined the lot merger in December and
  the matter was appealed to the Board of Supervisors for April 2026 amid
  CEQA challenges — captured as status "announced" (not cancelled: the
  proposal was still live under appeal as of the source date). building_sqft
  is "~1 million sq ft" (approximate) per the source. Developer is
  Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (Sebastian Rucci), which has no
  operators.yml entry and needs one; developer field omitted rather than
  inventing an id.