A watchdog group has accused a Valley landowner of exploiting a loophole in Salt River Project’s rules to use a large property to influence the outcome of the utility’s 2024 board races, before flipping the land to a data center developer for hundreds of millions of dollars. The allegations center on 200 acres of land in Avondale sold by Vanderwey, a long time West Valley agricultural family, to QTS Data Centers for $247 million in July 2024.