Palm Beach County Rejects 'Project Tango' Hyperscale AI Campus 5-1 After 12-Hour Hearing

Palm Beach County Commissioners voted 5-1 on July 15 to deny the development order for “Project Tango,” a proposed hyperscale AI data center campus near Loxahatchee. The developer had already scaled the project back by over 40% — a 760,000-square-foot reduction, to roughly 1.03 million square feet — after the Palm Beach County Zoning Commission voted 6-0 on July 2 to urge county commissioners to deny the project. The final hearing ran 12 hours; Commissioner Maria Marino was the lone yes vote. The developer of record is “PBA Holdings” — the actual hyperscaler behind the project has not been publicly named.

The unnamed-hyperscaler pattern here — a shell entity carrying the public application while the ultimate corporate customer stays undisclosed — is a structural feature the timeline should watch across the broader 2026 datacenter-siting wave, since it prevents communities from evaluating a project’s power, water, and tax-abatement demands against the actual company’s balance sheet and negotiating leverage.

Corrected 2026-10-01: corrected the scale-back figure from “3.7M → ~1M sq ft” to the cited WLRN article’s actual framing — a 760,000-square-foot reduction (over 40%) to roughly 1.03 million square feet — and corrected “the zoning commission rejected it” to what WLRN reports: the Zoning Commission voted 6-0 on July 2 to urge (recommend) denial, not an outright rejection. The July 2 date itself is confirmed in WLRN.