A 160-acre data center campus with its own natural gas power plant is coming to the patch of land west of Litchfield Road and north of Olive Avenue—and it’s now under Glendale‘s watch after the property was annexed into Glendale from Maricopa County.
The Glendale City Council voted 6–1 to approve Project Eagle/Baccara, locking in 12 city-mandated conditions that govern everything from air quality monitoring to who pays for hazmat emergency response. According to the city’s FAQ on the project, the county had already approved the site for up to three data centers totaling about 1.1 million square feet—along with a natural gas power plant and an APS substation—before annexation brought the property under Glendale’s development standards and the 12 enforceable stipulations.
What’s actually going on at the site
The project includes 18 natural gas turbines feeding an APS electrical substation that will connect to the broader power grid…