Highlights
- Aligned Data Centers filed planning documents for a two-building, 916,000-square-foot campus at 75th Avenue and Butler Drive in Peoria.
- The company paid $43.2 million for the 95-acre site in October 2024; the proposal passed Peoria's first review round.
- Phoenix's 2024 data center zoning ordinance blocked Aligned from converting a $108 million Deer Valley office park, pushing the project west.
- A consortium including BlackRock and Nvidia agreed to acquire Aligned for $40 billion, with closing expected in the first half of 2026.
Aligned Data Centers, the Plano, Texas-based operator, filed planning documents with the city of Peoria for a two-building campus totaling about 916,000 square feet on a 95-acre site at 75th Avenue and Butler Drive, according to KTAR and the Phoenix Business Journal, which broke the story Saturday.
Aligned acquired the parcel for $43.2 million in October 2024. The site sits within Peoria Logistics Park, an industrial corridor that also houses Frito Lay and Trader Joe's, and falls inside a zoning district that permits data center uses. The proposal was submitted in March and has passed the first round of city review, according to The Real Deal.
Why Peoria and not Phoenix?
Phoenix's 2024 data center zoning and noise limit ordinance blocked Aligned's plans to convert a $108 million Deer Valley office park into a data center, according to The Real Deal. Peoria's industrial zoning presented a ready alternative on land Aligned had already secured.
The Peoria campus would add to an existing Phoenix-area footprint that includes locations in north Phoenix, Chandler, and Glendale. Aligned paid $86.52 million for 100 acres in Glendale for a separate four-building campus, per AZ Tech Council reporting.
The company's expansion is unfolding against a backdrop of a pending $40 billion acquisition by a consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, and MGX. That deal was expected to close in the first half of 2026, according to the AZ Tech Council. Aligned operates 50 campuses and 78 data centers across the U.S. and South America, with 6.4 gigawatts of operational and planned capacity.
Peroria city council action on the planning application has not yet been scheduled publicly.
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- ktar.com retrieved 30/05/2026 14:06
- therealdeal.com retrieved 30/05/2026 14:06
- aztechcouncil.org retrieved 30/05/2026 14:06
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