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West Valley residents, officials wary of latest data center effort

Nearby residents begin giving pushback to Project Baccara

Two-year-old Michigan-based company Takanock wants to build a new data center with on-site natural gas generators in an industrial area north of Luke Air Force Base at Bullard and Olive avenues, a half-mile south of Surprise.

Courtesy ChatGPT

A map shows the proposed site of a data center that would use approximately 700 megawatts of natural gas generators.

Courtesy city of Surprise

Takanock released two photos looking northwest at Olive and 143rd avenues, one that shows the current landscape, top, and one that is a rendering of what the Project Baccara will look like from the same location.

Courtesy Takanock

Takanock shows a typical data center with a smoke stack similar to the ones it is proposing near Surprise.

Courtesy Takanock

Hollie Tolmachoff lives just outside of the Surprise city limits, but her family’s life revolves around places inside it.

Their children attend Surprise schools, the family shops at its stores and they complete other day-to-day tasks in Surprise.

“We may not be Surprise residents, but we definitely feel like it,” Tolmachoff told the Surprise City Council last month during a call to the public segment.

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West Valley residents, officials wary of latest data center effort

Nearby residents begin giving pushback to Project Baccara

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