If there was one sound that dominated the public response during Monday night’s public meeting on Project Blue, it was a raucous and enthusiastic “BOO!”
The crowd of about 1,000 packed into the Tucson Convention Center to hear a presentation on the proposed data center shouted it as representatives of local utilities and the company developing the project introduced themselves, shouted it when presentations used the term “water positive” and yelled “bullshit” at promises of renewable resources at the proposed site.
A particularly boisterous group of teenagers repeatedly stood on their chairs, held signs high above their heads, and screamed themselves hoarse in forceful disapproval of any claim in favor of Project Blue…