Construction of major facility rumored to be linked to Amazon hits roadblock: 'We can't trade our future for short-term gains'

Construction of major facility rumored to be linked to Amazon hits roadblock: 'We can't trade our future for short-term gains'

Despite enticing promises from a large corporate backer — rumored to be Amazon — the city of Tucson has just rejected plans to build a resource-intensive, 290-acre data center within its boundaries, WebProNews reported. The proposed data center, dubbed Project Blue, might have been suitable for cloud computing or generative AI. It would have been located north of the Pima County Fairgrounds and might have provided tax funds and jobs. However, it…