96 acres of land in Florence, Arizona, is being eyed up for a data center development.
First reported by Pinal Central, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors received a request to rezone the land, located at the southeast corner of Felix and Judd roads and south of the Magma Ranch subdivision.
The company behind the application filed on August 14 is Judd Ventures LLC. It is not clear whether this is a shell company.
The land is currently designated for moderate to low-density housing. Judd Ventures LLC is now seeking an amendment to rezone the land for employment on 80 acres and mixed-use residential on 16 acres.
The project has been dubbed the SunHill Project. Other details have not been disclosed beyond it would be a data center and battery project.
The board took no action last week. After the citizen advisory committee and the Planning and Zoning Commission review the proposal in September, the plan will go before the Board of Supervisors for action on October 30.
On a community Facebook group, local residents V.S Quinnell and Gabriel Stacy Dixon both received letters about the potential development and voiced concerns about the project.
There are currently no listed data centers in Florence, Pinal County.
However, nearby state capital Phoenix is a major data center hub, home to the likes of EdgeCore, Meta, Google, and NTT, as well as Stack, Stream, Prime, Aligned, Iron Mountain, Vantage, Compass, QTS, EdgeConneX, Expedient, Centersquare, and H5. Microsoft operates a cloud region out of the area.
