By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
After canceling plans to build $550M hydrogen production hub in Buckeye last year, site owner Fortescue Future Industries is asking the City of Buckeye to eliminate one stipulation and modify two others attached to the rezoning of approximately 158 acres of the plant site.
Materials accompanying the submittal variously refer to the property as approximately 158 acres in some sections and 157 acres in others. For consistency’s sake, we will use 158.
Submitted materials and staff analysis say the 158 acres and the overall 920-acre site that surrounds it could eventually be used for an Arizona Public Service substation and a yet-to-be-announced data center project.
Site and Project History
The property near Patterson Road and State Route 85 is part of more than 920 acres annexed by Buckeye in 2010. An entity of now-bankrupt Nikola Corporation and its partner, TC Energy, bought the property in 2022 with plans to build a hydrogen production facility that would be part of the supply chain for Nikola’s hydrogen-fueled semitruck fleet. (AZBEX; Oct. 25, 2022)
