Materials include color-integrated tilt-up panels with formliners, metal composite and formed metal panels. Two access points are planned onto Pecos Road and four from the future Crismon Road alignment.
City of Mesa
The data center is to be south and adjacent to State Route 24 at 10126 E. Pecos Road in Mesa.
A 2,257,581-square-foot data center development with seven two-story buildings is planned on 170 acres at the northeast corner of East Pecos Road and the South Crismon Road alignment in Mesa.
The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board on May 13 voted 4-0 to recommend the city council approve a use permit, major site plan modification and rezoning of land from light industrial with a planned-area development overlay to light industrial with a new planned area development overlay. Absent were Boardmembers Genessee Montes, Jamie Blakeman and Chase Farnsworth.
A condition was added that states, “Prior to the submittal of a building permit, submit to the planning director a revised landscape plan using drought-tolerant plants recommended by the Arizona Nursery Association or the Arizona Department of Water Resources, and more event distribution of plant material on Pecos Road as determined by the planning director,” Planner Evan Balmer told the board prior to the vote.
Mesa City Council approved an annexation, rezoning and a conditional-use permit for a data center campus at the site on Aug. 26, 2024. That development never came to fruition, and a new developer is seeking to revise the entitlements to develop a campus consisting of seven data center buildings, a private substation and a proposed Salt River Project substation, Senior Planner Josh Grandlienard wrote in a staff report.
“Because the site was previously rezoned and approved for use as a data center and the requested rezoning does not modify the land uses allowed on site, the recently adopted text amendments that established data centers as a specific use in the (Mesa zoning ordinance), do not restrict the applicant’s ability to use the parcel as a data center,” it states. “Further, the applicant submitted their application on Aug. 4, 2025, prior to the effective date of Ordinance No. 5957, which also provided specific development standards related to data center design. As a result, it is being processed according to the development standards in effect at the time the application was filed.”
Materials include color-integrated tilt-up panels with formliners, metal composite and formed metal panels. Two access points are planned onto Pecos Road and four from the future Crismon Road alignment, it states in a city document.
Asif Kazimi of Burns and McDonnell Engineering Co. is the applicant. NTT Global Data Centers PH10 LLC is the owner.
The development is anticipated to proceed in one or more phases. Due to its proximity to a freeway corridor and surrounding industrial land uses, the plans incorporate practices to mitigate noise impacts, according to a written project narrative.
“Specifically, the design includes the use of low-noise fans and equipment to minimize sound emissions both on-site and off-site, ensuring the development remains compatible with adjacent uses and maintains compliance with applicable noise standards,” it states.
“The site is designed to host a total of seven two-story buildings, each incorporating prominent office components visible from all surrounding arterial roads and the adjacent highway. The project encompasses approximately 2.2 million square feet of combined office and data hall space,” it states in the narrative.
Medium voltage electrical service to the campus buildings will be provided at 34.5kV from an on-site substation. Each building will be supplied by primary and redundant underground feeder paths from the substation. Each power system is also equipped with a dedicated diesel generator, providing an independent backup power source in the event of utility failure.
Mechanical cooling systems are supported by these power systems, it states.
The seven-member Planning and Zoning Board conducts hearings and make recommendations to the city council on requests for changes in zoning and on required site plans. It also considers and recommends changes in the city’s long-range plans and in the municipal code concerning planning and zoning matters. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years.
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Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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