Until the first heady weeks of Tucson’s scorching summer, Vivek Bharathan and Elaina Richards had never worked or campaigned together, let alone been on a shared Google document.
One month into coordinating a campaign against a proposed data center in Tucson, they’ve still never met in person.
But what they’re hoping to fight off is very real: a 290-acre data center campus that is one of the largest development projects ever to be considered by the city or county, which they warn would be a drain on Tucson’s water, energy and environment…