{"id":20473,"date":"2025-10-15T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/the-city-that-draws-the-line-one-arizona-communitys-fight-against-a-huge-datacenter\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:38:13","slug":"the-city-that-draws-the-line-one-arizona-communitys-fight-against-a-huge-datacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/the-city-that-draws-the-line-one-arizona-communitys-fight-against-a-huge-datacenter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The city that draws the line\u2019: one Arizona community\u2019s fight against a huge datacenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert \u2013 but will Project Blue be stopped?<\/p>\n<p>A company\u2019s opaque plan to build a huge datacenter outside Tucson, Arizona has roiled the desert city over the past few months, the latest US community to push back as tech companies aggressively seek to build out infrastructure for cloud computing and to power the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thechambersoaz.com\/2025\/07\/16\/the-chamber-of-southern-arizona-board-of-directors-votes-to-support-project-blue\/\">proposed<\/a> datacenter, known as Project Blue, would span 290 acres in Pima county, and become the biggest development ever in the county, or anywhere in the southern part of the state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/15\/tucson-arizona-ai-data-center-project-blue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3b7f391d3339a8b4cf874a8c4ac9f8f59fe53884\/126_0_3780_3024\/master\/3780.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6e464e7c51e59e65e313809766dd6fcc\" title=\"\u2018The city that draws the line\u2019: one Arizona community\u2019s fight against a huge datacenter\" \/>Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert \u2013 but will Project Blue be stopped?<br \/>\nA company\u2019s opaque plan to build a huge datacenter outside Tucson, Arizona has roiled the desert city over the past few months, the latest US community to push back as tech companies aggressively seek to build out infrastructure for cloud computing and to power the AI boom.<br \/>\nThe proposed datacenter, known as Project Blue, would span 290 acres in Pima county, and become the biggest development ever in the county, or anywhere in the southern part of the state. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert \u2013 but will Project Blue be stopped? A company\u2019s opaque plan to build a huge datacenter outside Tucson, Arizona has roiled the desert city over the past few months, the latest US community to push back as tech companies aggressively seek &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/the-city-that-draws-the-line-one-arizona-communitys-fight-against-a-huge-datacenter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The city that draws the line\u2019: one Arizona community\u2019s fight against a huge datacenter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}