Residents gathered in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, as drilling rigs started up at Beale Infrastructure’s construction site — a moment local opponents say marks a troubling new phase in the fight over a proposed data center.
The protest was shared in an Instagram reel by the No Desert Data Center Coalition (@no_desert_data_center) and centered on one urgent concern: that groundwater in an already water-stressed region could be put at risk without meaningful community consent.
Pima County residents arrived at the Beale site early that morning as well-drilling work got underway…