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 project had already been scaled back from 3.7 million square feet to roughly 1 million square feet after the zoning commission rejected it on July 2. 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.