Price Road Innovation Campus

Does the disclosed design cool the whole campus this record covers without evaporating water?

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At the December 11, 2025 council meeting, the head of Active Infrastructure said the project “does not use water for cooling”. City staff said the proposed agreement required the data center to use “mechanical or closed-loop cooling systems only”. Staff said the evaporative cooling systems of a vacant building on the site would be removed. Staff said the new systems would “use little to no water”. The agreement still allowed water-based cooling “in a closed-loop system”. A closed loop by itself does not show how the heat leaves the site (the “heat-rejection” design). The plan also had five other buildings for research, flex and office use. The minutes do not describe how they would be cooled. The council denied the rezoning and the agreement.

Source: City of Chandler, Council minutes of December 11, 2025, items 37 and 38, December 11, 2025.

Is a number public for how much water the site or campus needs or consumes?

YesCompany statement

In the minutes, the applicant says the data center is expected to use 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of water a day. That figure is for the data center, not the whole site. City staff say the data center would be limited to about 48,000 gallons a day. Staff call that figure the most water allowed (the “maximum allowable daily allotment”), not the expected use. Staff say the five other buildings on the site would be limited to roughly 30,000 gallons a day. Staff say those buildings could later ask for more water under a city policy. All of these figures are for the rejected proposal.

Source: City of Chandler, Council minutes of December 11, 2025, items 37 and 38, December 11, 2025.

Is clean power accounting for this project public, and does it clearly state the matching period?

Not known

The listed records do not answer this.

Is a final air permit for this project public in the listed records?

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The listed records do not answer this.

Do the listed records show enforceable noise limits, as numbers, for the site when it runs?

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In the minutes of the December 11, 2025 meeting, a city staff slide names the city’s data center ordinance. It is Section 35-2214 of the Zoning Code, adopted in December 2022. The applicant’s slides say the city’s 2022 noise standards for data centers require noise not to exceed the ambient level. That is the background sound already there. They say the ambient level was measured and is higher than the project’s expected noise. The minutes give no number for that level. The slides also say that, with all generators running, possible peak noise at the east property line meets “standard commercial noise limits (65dBA)”. That is the applicant’s claim about a proposal the council denied 7–0.

Source: City of Chandler, Council minutes of December 11, 2025, items 37 and 38, December 11, 2025.

Do public records show an adopted tariff or agreement that says who pays the project’s power costs?

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Salt River Project (SRP) would supply power to the site. At the December 11, 2025 meeting, city staff said SRP’s policy “requires the developer to pay for its own infrastructure and generation.” The applicant’s slides said SRP’s E-67 Price Plan makes the developer pay a minimum demand charge. They said this applies even if the customer uses less power than expected. The proposed contract with the city (the “development agreement”) needed a signed SRP agreement by January 2027. That agreement was to bring 230-kilovolt power lines to the site. The council denied the development agreement 7–0. The minutes do not include the E-67 plan or a signed SRP agreement for this project.

Source: City of Chandler, Council minutes of December 11, 2025, items 37 and 38, December 11, 2025.

Does a public record show a local land-use decision?

YesOfficial record

The council denied item 37 (the rezoning and preliminary development plan) and item 38 (the development agreement) by 7–0. Every vote was to deny. This is a decision on an application, not a citywide ban.

Source: City of Chandler, Council minutes of December 11, 2025, items 37 and 38, December 11, 2025.