(The Center Square) – What was meant to be a stop on the campaign tour for Arizona’s attorney general deep in the heart of Mesa became a one-topic free-for-all instead on Wednesday night.
The city of about 500,000 people, near Phoenix, is where Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes came to lay out her vision for data center development. But most of the town hall at the Eagle Community Center was spent talking about a particular 38-acre tract of land in the southern fringes of the Phoenix city limits.
As The Center Square covered on Wednesday morning, Mayes’ calls for a data center moratorium have been met by raised eyebrows and criticism from business officials, including executives from the state and Phoenix area chambers of commerce…