Peoria, AZ Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Zoning & Siting (2026)

Table 21-503, the city's Land Use Matrix, lists Data Center as a distinct use category and marks it "P" (allowed by right) only in the four employment-focused zoning districts: Business Park Industrial (BPI), Planned Industrial (PI-1), Industrial (I-1) and Industrial (I-2). 4. Section 21-202 of the Zoning Ordinance's Definitions and Land Use Classifications article defines a Data Center as "a location housing one or more large computer systems and related equipment, concerned with building, maintaining or processing data and providing other data processing services," noting it is also known as a telecom hotel or carrier hotel.

Because Data Center carries no cross-reference in the table's Use-Specific Standards column, the Planning and Community Development Department (the "Department" under Section 21-202) applies only the ordinance's general site-development rules, height, setback, parking and design-guideline compliance, rather than a bespoke data-center standard. A developer proposing a data center on land zoned O-1 through C-5 has no administrative path to approval on that lot; the site would first need a rezoning to BPI, PI-1, I-1 or I-2, processed under the ordinance's standard rezoning procedure, before a building permit for that use could issue.

Within the eligible industrial zones the use is by-right, so no conditional use permit or special use permit hearing is required once the site is properly zoned.