The City of Tucson, Arizona, has rejected a proposed data center, dubbed Project Blue, following intense scrutiny by the local community over concerns about water and energy usage.
A crowd cheered after city council members voted 7-0 to kill the project.
“The counterattack against the technocracy has begun,” The Blaze Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz commented.
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Dubbed “Project Blue,” the data center was supposed to be built on 290 acres in Pima County. The county’s board of supervisors approved selling the land north of the Pima County Fairgrounds for the center, but the project still required the city of Tucson’s approval of a development agreement and
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