A pair of Chandler City Council members have weighed in on what a former U.S. senator at a pair of October meetings — with a routine upcoming vote on a development project seeming to have taken on added significance.

Not only did a development group called Active Infrastructure launch a plan to build a large artificial-intelligence data center on the site of a long-vacant industrial facility in south Chandler, but also, former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema came to a pair of October meetings to speak in favor of council approving the development plan.

Sinema used the term “federal pre-emption” both during an Oct. 15 Chandler Planning and Zoning Commission hearing about the data center and also the following night during the public-input time at a Chandler City Council meeting.

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