1. Podcasts
PROJECT BLUE / Modified jul 25, 2025 10:39 a.m.

Data Center Dilemma | Project Blue and its impact on water, power, and jobs

Pima County Supervisor Jennifer Allen, Ian McDowell of Sundt Construction, and reporters John Washington and Caitlin Schmidt discuss the heated issue.

VIDEO: The Press Room

The company behind the Project Blue data center in Arizona appears to be Amazon Web Services. We speak to AZ Luminaria's John Washington, who broke the story, and unpack a community meeting about the proposed data center's impact on water, power, and jobs.

Pima County Supervisor Jennifer Allen, Ian McDowell of Sundt Construction, and Caitlin Schmidt of the Tucson Spotlight join host Steve Goldstein to discuss the heated issue.

MORE:
PROJECT BLUE
By posting comments, you agree to our
AZPM encourages comments, but comments that contain profanity, unrelated information, threats, libel, defamatory statements, obscenities, pornography or that violate the law are not allowed. Comments that promote commercial products or services are not allowed. Comments in violation of this policy will be removed. Continued posting of comments that violate this policy will result in the commenter being banned from the site.

By submitting your comments, you hereby give AZPM the right to post your comments and potentially use them in any other form of media operated by this institution.
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona