Nearly a dozen landowners and prospective data center developers have demanded about three-quarters of a billion dollars from Phoenix.
Citing a voter-approved state law, they’ve claimed that the city owes them for lost property values since last summer, when Phoenix leaders passed new zoning rules to regulate where and how the digital warehouses can be built.
In complaints and other legal filings, the owners argued that the city’s ordinance imposes new and burdensome conditions for data center projects, which weren’t previously required on commercial and industrial sites, such as theirs…