Tucson and Pima County representatives want to bring in dollars to their coffers. So they negotiate with an unknown entity (to the residents) to give away precious water and electricity for the sake of maybe 90 permanent jobs. With its own AI maybe ite won't even need workers to keep it running. The residents are already going to give away power and precious water for dollars with the mines in the Santa Ritas. Well (pun intended), when the CAP water disappears in a couple of years, and the drought continues for another decade or more, explain to me how I am going to drink dollars. Water in this desert is non-renewable. When Tucson becomes a ghost town and potable water runs out, ask your grandkids, "Did I do the right thing? Were those few jobs that sucked the water out of the residents' lives worth it?" And you will be asking this from some place where water is currently more plentiful and you are planning your next AI data center.
Douglas Heaberlin
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