Maricopa County approves rezoning for proposed $25B data center hub

Article originally posted on Phoenix Business Journal on December 15, 2025

An enormous data center hub planned just outside Buckeye got the go-ahead from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors this week.

The board unanimously voted in favor of a rezoning measure allowing industrial uses on a roughly 2,000-acre site during a Dec. 10 meeting, clearing the way for the project, which is being led by Arizona Land Consulting.

The firm’s CEO, Anita Verma-Lallian, has teamed up with prominent investors such as former Facebook executive and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya to form an investment fund focused on prepping the site for a massive data center campus.

They scooped up 2,000 acres for $51 million to build out Hassayampa Ranch earlier this year – a project expected to accommodate over 1 gigawatt of power, and one that investors expect to pour $25 billion into.

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