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A major Arizona landowner is scooping up more acreage in the far West Valley to set it up for data center campuses.
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Arizona Land Consulting acquired 956 acres in Tonopah for $25 million on May 20, CEO Anita Verma-Lallian told the Business Journal.
As a result, the firm now owns about 4,000 acres of vacant desert land across three separate sites in Tonopah, which is about an hour’s drive west of Phoenix.
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The latest chunk it acquired was set up for a master-planned community called Desert Whisper in 2007, which never materialized. Arizona Land Consulting will now start the process of getting it rezoned for industrial and data center uses, Verma-Lallian said.
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