Community backlash over the secretive planning of Project Blue — a massive data center development — is prompting Tucson officials to reconsider how and when non-disclosure agreements should be used in public projects.
As officials in Pima County and the City of Tucson discussed and planned one of the region’s largest development projects in history, for at least two years not a single hint about the project was released to the public, largely because of non-disclosure agreements, commonly referred to as NDAs.
Before the proposal was considered by the Pima County Board of Supervisors and Arizona Luminaria reporting revealed the company behind the data centers to be Amazon Web Services, important details had been unavailable to the public…