Project Blue is an enormous boondoggle! Its hard to imagine a worse proposal following so closely on Prop 414, which i would have thought was the most unpopular idea from Mayor and Council. But noooooo, they can outdo even that if they vote yes to this. Lets hope they look at their political futures and decide that they don't want to be remembered for removing grass at public parks, incentivizing draining swimming pools and zero-scapes in order to give our water to the Saudis for alfalfa--oops! We don't even know who it will go to!!! Call your councilmember NOW! NO to Project Blue. A heat generating plant that takes monumental amts of water does NOT belong in the desert!
Hiring thousands of new ICE Agents without a polygraph test will be a disaster. (See Tim Steller's story in the Star.)
When I served as a police commissioner, I moved the lie-box test to the front of the hiring application process. This cut 80% of the candidates from consideration and significantly reduced the background workload (vetting) for our detective bureau before written tests and personal interviews.
In my experience, the polygraph exam is mandatory in law enforcement. Sen. Gallego has never conducted this type of hiring and does not fully comprehend the essential need for this in policing.
I wouldn't believe Zeldin if he told me water was wet. Just another Administration four-flusher/liar. Project Blue won't stand up to even cursory scrutiny. Time to call the end-users bluff. Adios. Any entity that paranoid deserves the highway blues. So far we haven't seen a straight answer from anyone involved in this. Don't be gullible...send them packing.
Richard Grayson, a New York City author, believes he has found a way to neutralize the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - elect him to Congress. "Then he would be as ineffective as any other congressman," said Grayson, treasurer of the "Ayatollah for Congress Committee."
Grayson has duly registered the committee with the Federal Election Commission, declaring the Iranian religious leader a candidate for the 11th Congressional District in Brooklyn. The ayatollah was listed as a Democrat.
The campaign committee was formed last September, more than a month before the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was stormed and the American occupants taken hostage.
"We knew even then what kind of man the ayatollah was," Grayson said..
Nikki Lee was NOT forced to admit Project Blue would only provide 75 jobs.
She's the one city council member who's been working overtime to dig out Project Blue's secrets. Her website is the best place for questions that need answers from Project Blue. She's also working on regulations that will prevent data centers from damaging Tucson. We all owe her for the work she's doing.
We need the mayor and several other city councilors to wake up and support the work Nikki Lee is doing.
1. Phoenix has regulations in place to control data centers. Their water regulations set limits on how much water big users can withdraw. If a big user exceeds their allowance, Phoenix can cut off their water!
The right to cut off their water is important, because data centers in other places have exceeded their allowable water usage by many times over. Charging them more does not stop them.
2. After the fact, Mesa is working on regulations for data centers to protect the water, health, and safety of their community.
3. Tempe either has or is working on restrictions to control data centers.
Project Blue is an enormous boondoggle! Its hard to imagine a worse proposal following so closely on Prop 414, which i would have thought was the most unpopular idea from Mayor and Council. But noooooo, they can outdo even that if they vote yes to this. Lets hope they look at their political futures and decide that they don't want to be remembered for removing grass at public parks, incentivizing draining swimming pools and zero-scapes in order to give our water to the Saudis for alfalfa--oops! We don't even know who it will go to!!! Call your councilmember NOW! NO to Project Blue. A heat generating plant that takes monumental amts of water does NOT belong in the desert!
Hiring thousands of new ICE Agents without a polygraph test will be a disaster. (See Tim Steller's story in the Star.)
When I served as a police commissioner, I moved the lie-box test to the front of the hiring application process. This cut 80% of the candidates from consideration and significantly reduced the background workload (vetting) for our detective bureau before written tests and personal interviews.
In my experience, the polygraph exam is mandatory in law enforcement. Sen. Gallego has never conducted this type of hiring and does not fully comprehend the essential need for this in policing.
I wouldn't believe Zeldin if he told me water was wet. Just another Administration four-flusher/liar. Project Blue won't stand up to even cursory scrutiny. Time to call the end-users bluff. Adios. Any entity that paranoid deserves the highway blues. So far we haven't seen a straight answer from anyone involved in this. Don't be gullible...send them packing.
I thought of Project Blue when I read this article in yesterday's New York Times. Here's a version not behind a paywall: https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/14/their-water-taps-ran-dry-when-meta-built-next-door/
I agree. This is an article Tucsonans need to read before Project Blue gets its hooks into us.
Even in wet, rainy Georgia there's not enough water to supply data centers and their neighbors.
The 1.3GW for Project Blue seems hard to believe.
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1.3 GW, not GWh, for both phases. At just 50% capacity, that would be
1.3GW * 8760 hours * 50% uptime capacity= 5,694GWh= 5.694 TWh
TEP currently does 9.2 TWh annually!
But it makes no sense to me that TEP would sign up for this type of unrealistic increase. So it feels like something is missing.
And that's just for 50% uptime!! This data center at 90% uptime would almost be all of TEPs current load. The number just doesn't pass the sniff test.
Hi! We are digging into these numbers with a heathy dose of skepticism.
We are referencing the figures provided by the developer/the city.
Ayatollah Khomeini was a candidate for Congress 45 years ago.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register/21405798/
From the Des Moines Register, February 2, 1980
Khomeini for Congress
Richard Grayson, a New York City author, believes he has found a way to neutralize the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - elect him to Congress. "Then he would be as ineffective as any other congressman," said Grayson, treasurer of the "Ayatollah for Congress Committee."
Grayson has duly registered the committee with the Federal Election Commission, declaring the Iranian religious leader a candidate for the 11th Congressional District in Brooklyn. The ayatollah was listed as a Democrat.
The campaign committee was formed last September, more than a month before the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was stormed and the American occupants taken hostage.
"We knew even then what kind of man the ayatollah was," Grayson said..
Nikki Lee was NOT forced to admit Project Blue would only provide 75 jobs.
She's the one city council member who's been working overtime to dig out Project Blue's secrets. Her website is the best place for questions that need answers from Project Blue. She's also working on regulations that will prevent data centers from damaging Tucson. We all owe her for the work she's doing.
We need the mayor and several other city councilors to wake up and support the work Nikki Lee is doing.
1. Phoenix has regulations in place to control data centers. Their water regulations set limits on how much water big users can withdraw. If a big user exceeds their allowance, Phoenix can cut off their water!
The right to cut off their water is important, because data centers in other places have exceeded their allowable water usage by many times over. Charging them more does not stop them.
2. After the fact, Mesa is working on regulations for data centers to protect the water, health, and safety of their community.
3. Tempe either has or is working on restrictions to control data centers.