CBRE Investment Management has received city approval for its data center expansion in Chandler, Arizona.

The company applied to rezone land surrounding the data center at 2500 W. Frye Road from light industrial to planned area development last month.

The application was voted for unanimously to recommend approval for the project and the city has now granted permission for the rezoning.

The existing data center is around 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sqm), set on a 14.5 acre site.

The new data center space will be developed on the underused parking lot and will feature a new three-story building.

The facility will have a height of 90 feet. It will also include the replacement of an outdated water-intensive cooling system, adding an additional 243,000 sq ft (22,575 sqm) of data center space.

This upgrade will see the data center rely on an electric air-cooling solution.

CBRE is the owner of the project, with Gensler handling the design. Kimley-Horn & Associates Inc is doing the planning.

The data center was originally part of a campus that was purchased by Bank of America in 2008. More than a decade later, the bank decided to split the campus up and sell the data center portion.

In December 2022, Chandler changed its zoning code to limit data center developments in the city. Data centers now need to be zoned as "planned area development" to be developed, while nearby neighborhoods must be also notified and noise mitigation measures put in place.

Other operators with data centers in Chandler include CyrusOne, Digital Realty, and H5 Data Centers.