Impacts

IMPACTS

The proposed rezoning at Price & Dobson would allow the developer to construct a 40-acre AI and advanced computing complex, including a dedicated AI data center.
This is confirmed in the developer’s own community notice, which states Building A is a planned “AI data center.”

Placing a high-intensity industrial computing campus less than 1,000 ft from homes creates serious quality-of-life, environmental, and property-value impacts that residents deserve to understand. zjust ask the residents living next to the current data centers north of Queen Creek Rd on Price Rd.

This page breaks down each impact clearly and simply.

🔊 1. Noise Impacts (24/7, constant, penetrating)

AI data centers, potential crypto mines, and high-load compute facilities all generate continuous industrial noise, including:

  • Cooling tower roar
  • High-RPM server fans
  • HVAC compressors
  • Chiller units
  • Transformer hum
  • Backup generator testing

Unlike office buildings, data centers operate nonstop, day and night.
The noise signature tends to be:

  • Low-frequency rumble
  • Mid-frequency droning
  • High-frequency fan whine

These sounds travel farther at night and during cool weather — precisely when residents are home, sleeping, or enjoying outdoor space.

Near homes, this is unacceptable.

⚡ 2. Power Impacts (tens of megawatts)

Data centers consume staggering amounts of electricity:

  • 20–100 megawatts per building
  • Requires major utility upgrades
  • New high-voltage lines
  • New transformers
  • Potential substation expansion
  • Increased fire-load on the grid

The developer’s letter never addresses power requirements, even though they market the site to advanced computing and data center users.

Large-scale electrical upgrades near residential neighborhoods are intrusive, risky, and difficult to shield.

🛢️ 3. Diesel Backup Generators (pollution + vibration)

Every data center requires diesel-fueled emergency generators.

Impacts include:

  • Loud monthly test cycles
  • Exhaust fumes
  • Vibration transmitted through soil
  • Large-scale fuel storage
  • Air quality degradation
  • Increased fire risk

Even if not used during outages, these generators must be tested regularly — usually during weekdays, sometimes early morning.

Residents should not be breathing diesel exhaust or feeling ground vibration from industrial machinery.

💦 4. Water Usage Impacts

AI data centers and crypto farms produce intense heat, requiring constant cooling.

Many use:

  • Water-cooled chillers
  • Cooling towers
  • Evaporative cooling systems

This may require millions of gallons per day depending on load.

The developer’s notice does not mention water usage at all.
Meanwhile, the site sits directly adjacent to the Ocotillo Water Reclamation Plant, which does NOT guarantee water capacity for this type of project.

In Arizona — a desert city — this is a major concern.

🚚 5. Traffic Impacts

Despite low staffing levels, data centers and crypto operations still generate:

  • Delivery trucks
  • Equipment transport
  • Fuel truck deliveries
  • Maintenance vehicles
  • On-site construction for years

Price and Dobson are already congested during peak hours.
This project would make it worse, especially during construction and generator-fueling cycles.

💡 6. Light Pollution

24/7 industrial operations mean:

  • Bright security lighting
  • Pole lights
  • Entry illumination
  • Motion-activated perimeter lights
  • Emergency lighting

All of these can spill into nearby homes, yards, and bedrooms — especially if the building heights increase, which is a common data center requirement.

🏗️ 7. Building Height + Massing

Data centers are typically:

  • Tall
  • Windowless
  • Box-shaped industrial structures
  • Built from tilt-up concrete

Without height transparency, residents do not know if these buildings will be:

  • 50 ft
  • 70 ft
  • 90 ft
  • Multi-story with mezzanines (which their site map strongly suggests)

The developer’s PDF references support for 260,000 sq ft of mezzanine/second floor area, which generally indicates tall, industrial-scale buildings — not neighborhood-friendly structures.

🪙 8. Crypto Mining Impacts (a real possibility after rezoning)

Once rezoning allows “advanced computing” and “data center” uses — both of which the developer explicitly lists — crypto mining is legally permitted unless specifically prohibited (it is NOT prohibited).

Crypto mining causes:

Extreme noise

Thousands of specialized mining rigs run at full speed 24/7.

Massive power consumption

Crypto mining is one of the heaviest electrical loads per square foot of any industry.

Intense heat output

Requires massive cooling, which increases noise even further.

Low employment

Crypto mines bring almost no jobs, despite huge utility burdens.

Frequent shutdowns and relocations

Crypto operations frequently abandon buildings when power prices fluctuate.

Zero community benefit

Crypto mining is notorious for:

  • High noise
  • High pollution
  • Low economic value
  • High infrastructure burden

It is one of the worst possible neighbors for residential communities.

🏠 9. Property Value Impacts

Data centers and crypto operations next to neighborhoods have a strongly negative impact on home values because of:

  • Noise
  • Light
  • Pollution
  • Traffic
  • Building size
  • Utility infrastructure
  • Perceived nuisance
  • 24/7 activity

Buyers avoid homes near industrial facilities.
That is a fact observed nationwide in real estate markets.

🧭 10. Incompatibility with Chandler’s Existing Land Use Planning

Chandler already has a successful Price Corridor industrial zone less than one mile north — home to major data centers and tech companies.

That corridor is located where:

  • High voltage infrastructure exists
  • Noise buffers exist but ask most local residents if they think they are enough?
  • Setbacks are small and ask the residents nearby if they are enough?
  • Traffic patterns support it
  • Homes are directly adjacent, ask the neighbors if they think they are far enough?

There is no planning justification for placing heavy compute operations in a residential transition zone. Even along Dobson they are far too close.

⛔ Conclusion: This Project Is Not Neighborhood-Compatible

The impacts listed above make clear:

This is not a “tech campus.”
This is a heavy industrial compute facility, including uses that the developer does not disclose fully.

The impacts would be permanent, unavoidable, and disruptive to:

  • Safety
  • Sleep
  • Peace
  • Health
  • Home values
  • Community character

Residents deserve transparency, full environmental review, and a better location — such as Chandler’s established industrial corridor.

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