An electrical contractor has locked down a full industrial building in Chandler as Arizona's chipmaking and data center corridor keeps pulling in new tenants. OEG, a company previously named Oregon Electric Co., leased the entire 94,072-square-foot building at Queens Crossing Industrial Park to meet demand from fast-growing technology users, including chipmakers and data centers.
The lease was reported by CoStar, which identified OEG and Artivo Surfaces as the first tenants at Ryan Cos.' Queens Crossing development at Chandler Airpark. Queens Crossing sits at Queen Creek Road and McQueen Road in Chandler, according to the Queens Crossing Industrial marketing site, which lists the park as three buildings totaling 437,547 square feet.
Ryan Cos. developed the industrial park, and separate reporting from Connect CRE pegs the completed project — built together with Principal Asset Management — at more than 432,000 square feet across those same three buildings. The marketing site also shows roughly 300,010 square feet still available at Queens Crossing, divisible down to spaces of about 42,120 square feet, leaving room for more tenants to follow OEG and Artivo Surfaces into the park.
Why Chandler Keeps Pulling in Tech-Adjacent Tenants
OEG's move lands squarely in a stretch of the East Valley that has become ground zero for chip manufacturing and data center construction. Intel began building its $20 billion Fab 52 and Fab 62 project at its Chandler campus back in 2021, a buildout that ENR has described as poised to make a national impact on the semiconductor industry.
Chandler's data center footprint keeps expanding too. Aligned Data Centers' under-construction campus in the city continues to grow, according to ABC15, and the company's Continuum Propco LLC owns multiple parcels along Chandler's Price Road Corridor where it is developing several data center projects spanning hundreds of thousands of square feet.
Power Demand and a Tight Labor Market
All that growth is straining Arizona's power grid. Nearly 100 existing data centers in the state are already driving a short-term power crunch on utility systems, according to KJZZ. Arizona Public Service estimated that data centers would account for about 7% of its peak load this year, up from roughly 5% in 2025, and the utility has sought bids since 2023 for 8 gigawatts of additional capacity it wants ready by 2031.
Salt River Project, meanwhile, is in varying stages of construction to support 10 new data center customers that are expected to need about 2 gigawatts of additional capacity combined, per the same KJZZ report. That surge in construction work is also reshaping the labor market: BuildStrong Academy operations manager Becca Haro told Arizona's Family that the state's construction industry remains strong, with job openings for skilled laborers, and that continued AI growth will require more data centers across Arizona along with a skilled workforce to build them.
It's against that backdrop that an electrical contractor like OEG would want a larger regional footprint.
