An affiliate of Beale Infrastructure plans to draw as much as 31 million gallons of water from the local aquifer — equivalent to around 384 households — and applied for permit to drill on the site of the planned Project Blue data center in Tucson, according to the No Desert Data Center Coalition.

Bobcat Tucson Water, LLC applied for permits from the Arizona Department of Water Resources to drill the two wells for Project Blue, the controversial large-scale data center campus on 290 acres of land just north of the Pima County Fairgrounds on South Harrison Road.

Bobcat was registered on Dec. 1, 2025 as a foreign Limited Liability Company headquartered in Chicago, and registered through Wilmington, Del., according to filings from the Arizona Corporation Commission.

ADWR told the No Desert Data Center Coalition the two wells are approved under three different groundwater rights agreements, allowing the company to withdraw up to 96 acre feet of water annually from the two wells. Each acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to cover one acre with a foot of water, and equivalent to the annual water use for around four Tucson-area households.