Originally published on AZ Luminaria on July 29, 2025.
Even before its first public meeting on a controversial and long-secretive 290-acre data center project, the city of Tucson had already filed a petition with the Pima County Recorder’s Office to begin the process of annexing the land where the center — now revealed to be Amazon Web Services — would be built.
The document, “Intent to Annex Brekke and Harrison Annexation District,” was filed with the Pima County Recorder’s Office by Mike Czechowski, Tucson’s Annexation Project Manager, on July 23, at 3:14 p.m. That was just hours before the first public meeting about Project Blue, the code name for the proposed giant data center both the city of Tucson and Pima County have been discussing since at least 2023, according to county documents and emails…