Project Blue, a large data center proposed for near the Pima County fairgrounds, promised to build a pipeline for reclaimed water big enough to serve other users besides itself. But a draft of the contract with the city raised questions about whether the city would pay a share of pipeline costs after all.
Who will really pay that bill?
Project Blue will need a lot of power to run its computers and electronics, and a lot of water to cool them—so much that critics worry it’s a project that just does not belong in our hot, dry desert…