The Chamber of Southern Arizona has thrown its support behind Project Blue, a $3.6 billion three-phase data center development that leaders say would be the largest economic project in Southern Arizona’s history.
The planned technology campus, proposed by Beale Infrastructure, aims to meet rising national demand for digital infrastructure by building data centers in the Tucson area. The first phase could open by 2027 at Pima County’s Southeast Employment and Logistics Center on South Houghton Road near the fairgrounds.
Data centers store and process information critical to nearly every major industry in the region, from aerospace and defense to bioscience, manufacturing, education and government…