While Tucson City Council seems to have closed the door on the proposed Project Blue data center, the questions about resource use in the desert that consumed elected officials, experts and community members this summer may not be over.
A document obtained by Arizona Luminaria from Pima County via a public records request sheds light on what other locations the developer, as of March 2023, had been considering.
The proposed massive data center was one of the largest development projects ever to be considered by the city or county, which, critics warned, would have been an unprecedented drain on Tucson’s water, energy and environment. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted in June to sell the land to the developer, but the project depended on the city of Tucson to annex the property to supply its water…