Two more meetings about the proposed Project Blue data centers have been scheduled, city officials announced Monday.
A virtual meeting will be held Thursday via Microsoft Teams, from 5 to 7 p.m. See to join the meeting.
When the draft development agreement was released earlier this month, an executive summary from City Manager Tim Thomure noted that the meeting Thursday was being scheduled at the request of Mayor Regina Romero. The city’s news release Monday didn’t note whether Romero will attend Thursday’s meeting.
Another meeting has been scheduled in the Tucson Convention Center’s Grand Ballroom, 260 S. Church Ave., on Monday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m.
City officials, as well as representatives from Tucson Electric Power and Beale Infrastructure, Project Blue’s developer, will be at both meetings to share information and answer questions regarding the data center projects, the city says.
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Tucson city manager Tim Thomure answers a question from the crowd at a July 23 public information session on Project Blue.
Last week, nearly 800 people packed an auditorium at Mica Mountain High School on the southeast side to hear speakers express concerns about the city’s ability to properly manage water use by the $3.6 billion project, soon after news broke that a 2023 county memo named Amazon Web Services as the end user of the data centers.
Project Blue plans to build two large data center complexes within city limits, with construction starting next year and extending into the 2030s.
A third data center complex for Project Blue will eventually be built, city officials have said, but only the first complex of up to 10 individual data centers has an identified location, on 290 acres near the Pima County Fairgrounds on the far southeast side in unincorporated Pima County, just outside city limits.
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