FAIRFIELD – A commercial real estate company and a developer are seeking investors to develop a 300-acre industrial campus in northeast Fairfield that will include a 150 MW data center with the potential for expansion, according to a set of presentation slides obtained by the Vallejo Sun.
The project would be built between Vanden Road and North Gate Road just within Fairfield’s northeastern boundary, not far from residences at the outer edge of Vacaville.
The slides, distributed by real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle and Kansas City-based developer NorthPoint Development, present the project as an exclusive opportunity for investors or clients seeking data center server capacity. One slide promotes Fairfield as an ideal location for data centers due to the city’s proximity to major urban technology centers and relatively low real estate values. The pitch also promotes the location’s access to major transportation routes and fiber-optic transmission lines that run along major highways.
Another slide claims that the project site’s zoning allows for a data center to be developed “by right” and that entitlements for the project are nearly complete.
Fairfield spokesperson Bill Way confirmed that developer Canon Partners, which owns the property, is considering a data center project for the location. Canon Partners is controlled by Andrews Lando & Associates and Stroud Properties.
Longtime Fairfield resident Frank Andrews Jr., who died in 2023, co-founded Andrews Lando & Associates, and founded ASB Properties with David Stroud. Andrews also served on the boards of First Northern Bank for 35 years and The Solano Land Trust for 40 years. The companies founded by the two men have played a significant role in the development of Fairfield and West Sacramento.
The Fairfield planning commission approved a master development permit application from Canon Partners to develop a 4.6-million-square-foot industrial park at the site in 2023. That approval was based on the commission’s finding that the master plan was consistent with the city’s general plan and the completed specific plan environmental review that covers the project area.
The approved master plan permit outlines conditions of development related to utilities, traffic patterns and architectural requirements but does not include detailed construction plans. Way said that the next step in the process would be a formal application for development which would be subject to a public hearing.
According to Way, Canon Partners is studying the costs associated with bringing in the PG&E infrastructure needed to support high power load uses.
The pitch deck includes a project timeline indicating that PG&E began an engineering study in the third quarter of 2025 and that PG&E issued an engineering agreement in December.
The developer’s promotional materials also say that the city of Fairfield will provide water for the project and that wastewater collection near the site has 1 million gallons-per-day in excess capacity. Wey confirmed that the master planned development permit does require the city to provide water to the site at its normal rates.
“There are no specific limitations,” Way said. “This would be determined by the type of industrial facility and its capacity needs.”
According to Wey, the city of Fairfield has not received any further development applications for the project other than the application they approved in 2023 for the master planned development permit.
Jones Lang Lasalle, which was named as the point of contact for the data center project, did not respond to questions from the Vallejo Sun.
Communities across the country have been raising concerns about the water and energy use involved in the rapid buildout of data centers.
In Contra Costa County, Pittsburg residents have recently organized in opposition to the Avaio Perseus data center that the City Council approved in 2024. The 99 MW data center is similar to the Canon Partners project in Fairfield in that it was approved as part of a planned development for an industrial park.
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the city of Pittsburg, alleging that the approval failed to address environmental concerns related to the project’s water usage, greenhouse gas emissions and harm to wildlife.
The organization reached a settlement agreement with the city which requires the project to be powered with 100% renewable energy and to use recycled water to cool servers and irrigate landscaping. The agreement also requires the project developers to institute dust control measures during construction, to limit construction equipment emissions and to mitigate impacts to wildlife habitat.
In Solano County, residents were alarmed when they learned that a company had pitched an emergency shelter project with a data center component to the Solano County Fair Association. When the association posted a notice that they would discuss the proposal at a July 15 meeting, residents quickly mobilized to express opposition to the project, but the association withdrew the discussion item stating that approval of the project was outside their authority.
Residents also encouraged the county Board of Supervisors to set a prohibitively high tax rate on data centers at a meeting on July 28 when the board voted to place a measure on the November ballot to update the county’s business license tax structure.
The board settled on $5 per-square-foot business license tax on data centers, which staff estimated would generate $2 million in revenue annually for a building footprint required to accommodate a 77 MW data center.
If voters approve the proposed tax structure, it will only apply to unincorporated areas of the county. The Canon Partners data center, dubbed Project North Bay Solutions in promotional materials, is within Fairfield’s municipal boundary where a county business license is not required.
Concern about data centers also rippled through Solano County communities when the city of Rio Vista issued a statement pointing out that Suisun City’s proposed plan to annex land owned by California Forever would allow for the development of data centers by right in certain districts.
Rio Vista’s statement argued that the permissive plan could lead to the proliferation of data centers in the proposed development. California Forever’s response claimed that water and power limitations outlined in the project’s environmental review documents would not allow for extensive data center development.
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