Tucson votes down $250M Amazon data center citing water and energy use

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perihelions · 2h ago

I submitted a different story a few weeks ago about China's AI datacenter boom, whose focus is in the Gobi desert,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-11/china-... ("China’s AI Dreams Lead to Data Centers in Once-Restive West")

It's not impossible—actually pretty desirable, if you're doing large-scale solar power and need lots of cheap land—it's just that American civic culture, simply, sucks. It's the same stark story every time: China builds, the US fucking gives up.

rhelz · 2h ago

Dunno man, if somebody turns down hundreds of millions of dollars, I'm willing to believe that they have a pretty durn good reason.

Finnucane · 2h ago

yeah, stupid civic culture won’t let nice corporation take all of its water and get nothing for it.

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Tucson votes down $250M Amazon data center citing water and energy use

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