Plans for the Project Blue datacenter near the Pima County Fairgrounds attracted strong, persistent protests that are still going on. Now there’s a chance another large data center could go up—at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Military bases tend to be on really big pieces of land. In the case of an Air Force base, by the time you get the runway and all the support buildings, there might be substantial parcels of vacant space. So the Air Force looked at the land on the western edge of DM and said ”You know, you could put a data center there.”
Modern data centers are big. Project Blue, planned for construction near I-10 and Houghton is slated for about 290 acres of land…