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Pima County’s administrator recommends approval of a proposed multi-billion-dollar data center complex on the far southeast side that will eventually become one of the largest electricity users in the entire Tucson Electric Power system.

County Administrator Jan Lesher has for the first time identified the site developer and prospective land purchaser for the now county-owned, 290-acre data center site near the county fairgrounds.

The prospective land purchaser is Humphrey’s Peak Properties, LLC, of San Francisco, and the developer is Beale Infrastructure, a company developing other data centers nationally, a new memo from Lesher says.

Lesher’s memo asks the Board of Supervisors to require that the complex employ at least 75 employees at an average annual salary of $75,000. That’s more than the $64,000 annual salary that the data center company has said it will pay on average to its long-term workforce of 180.