A Cambridge study shows AI data centers raise land temps up to 16.4°F for miles. Southern Arizona just approved two during a historic megadrought. Here’s what’s at stake.
The Desert Is Already on Fire — So Naturally, We’re Building More Data Centers
How AI’s insatiable hunger for power is turning the Sonoran Desert into a server room — and who’s paying the price
by Three Sonorans
“Our community has lived the price of ‘trust us.’ We have lived the consequences of secrecy, we have lived the damage done when public health is treated as an afterthought, when residents are asked to carry the risk while someone else collects the reward.”— Pima County Supervisor Andrés Cano, voting no on Project Blue
It is April in the Sonoran Desert. The Santa Cruz River is barely a whisper. Your electricity bill is climbing…