No Desert Data Center Coalition
@nodesertdatacenter
We're fighting to stop the development of heat-generating, water-guzzling, energy-draining hyperscale data centers in the Sonoran Desert! We're a leaderful coalition of people based in Southern Arizona. Join us!
If Chino Valley can ban large-scale solar and wind power, why can’t we get a ban on large-scale data centers in Tucson?
Join us for a protest this Saturday at the land where they're building the Project Blue data center
Data Centers are the sites of deep systemic issues affecting all of us. Communities continue to resist extraction, oppression, and surveillance infrastructure. At this festival we will explore how to resist data centers and other forms of oppression with workshops, food, and fun water games!
and 2) Because TEP relies on fracked gas for 50% of its mix (and increasing), that means way more water consumption offsite in the form of fracking and heating water into steam at the generation point. This quote from @calonews.bsky.social covers that: www.calonews.com/arizona/we-h...
This week, before the ruling was released, before we had a chance to appeal, they started killing the living desert they’ve illegitimately claimed. So much destruction, all in service of the cruelty industry. A new gate on Brekke near Houghton will allow them to clear the east side of the land.
Tucson! Please contact the mayor and your city council member today and tell them to direct staff to fix these proposed data center regulations to make it impossible for a large-scale data center to be built here! nodesertdatacenter.com/the-audacity...
Save the dates, Tucson! More info about Thursday’s meeting coming soon (Tuesday or Wednesday). #NotOneDrop! Register here: www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/...
When we oppose hyperscale data centers in our communities, we protect the water, we protect the land, we keep our bills from going up more than they already do, AND we stop the cruelty industry from expanding its infrastructure. #ICEout #NoTechForICE 📷: @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social
Fuck your decorum and fuck your civility if they're in the service of cruelty and betraying your constituents. We're not taking this shit anymore. Thanks, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
To serve Beale Infrastructure's Project Blue data center, TEP will be leaving some of their utility customers. Which ones, and will those companies' customers see their rates go up? From the 12/3 Arizona Corporation Commission meeting where they passed the agreement between TEP and Beale.
Our officials need to listen to experts like Jackie, who can clearly explain how the proliferation of hyperscale data centers is built on debt, how they're unsustainable, and what it means to her as a Marana resident who wants continue living here. From the Marana Planning Commission meeting 12/10
Marana Town Council will vote on 1/6 on whether or not to approve 600 acres for hyperscale data centers. Despite overwhelming opposition, on 12/10 the planning commission voted unanimously to recommend it. Here are just a few of the Marana residents who took time out of their evenings to say no.
So condescending, so wrong on the facts! ACC Commissioner Lopez doesn't know or care about any of the details of Project Blue, how it moved through our local government, or even about its water use. He tried to use his dais to demean and embarrass his constituents, and ended up embarrassing himself.
Marana! Wednesday! Please come for this town planning commission public hearing. Have a look at this document for some background and questions we need answers to: drive.proton.me/urls/H3YZ79H... Thank you!
What we learned/confirmed yesterday: TEP customers are paying for the power that TEP will supply to Beale. Beale doesn’t have a customer lined up, so if they build this thing it will be empty. Beale will need backup power, and this may come from diesel, which is polluting and harmful.
TEP is scrambling to figure out their answers to great questions from the commissioners.
Hilariously, TEP mentioned in their intro that this project was vetted in several public hearings. Yeah, they looked like this. Then our city council voted no.
You should know who’s on the Arizona Corporation Commission! They have the power to say NO to TEP and shut down Project Blue, but they won’t unless we pressure them. Also: everyone deserves A/C in the summer heat, Nick. Do better, because 2026 is approaching fast 👀
Pima County! Here are three opportunities for civic engagement with your elected officials this week: Tuesday 12/2 at 9am: Pima County Board of Supervisors. Then at 6pm: Marana town council. Wednesday 12/3 at 9am: ACC meeting in Phoenix!
Tucson’s city attorney has filed a request to intervene at the Arizona Corporation Commission to protect TEP customers. We’ll be at the ACC meeting Wednesday morning to tell them to vote no on the deal. We’ll also be at the Pima County Board of Supervisors to tell them we expect them to act too.
Arizona! Join us in Phoenix next Wed. at 9am for the ACC meeting. You can sign up to speak in-person (or remotely if you can't make it), or submit a statement if you don't want to speak: efiling.azcc.gov/online-servi... No to Project Blue, no to APS rate hikes and commitment to fossil fuels!
Update on the last two weeks of data center BS in Pima County: Beale wants the land for Christmas, the ACC gives us two weeks warning before voting on the TEP/Beale energy service agreement, Marana announces public hearings for land twice the size of Project Blue for data centers. Happy holidays!!
Yesterday, our movement mobilized on short notice to protest TEP, the Canadian-owned for-profit energy monopoly that’s been making our electric bills a nightmare. They’re poised to supply power to Project Blue, but we’re in their way and not backing down.
Come get help with your ACC comments! We'll be on site at revolutionary grounds from 2:30-4:30 tomorrow (Wednesday 11/26) to help. We have talking points, suggestions and templates, and the links all ready to go!! Swing by to get some help, have company, or ask any questions!
Our privately owned electric utility, TEP, and a developer, Beale Infrastructure, disregarded overwhelming community opposition for a proposed hyperscale data center east of Tucson. TEP has a proposal with the Arizona Corporation Commission that they'll vote on next week. Here's what you can do.
Mañana, vamos a la reunion del Arizona Corporation Commission.
We’re not backing down. We’re taking this fight to the Arizona Corporation Commission this Wednesday.
We won but we're not done!! Here's our latest update. If you'd like to receive these in your inbox and/or join us as we continue our work, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...