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The Town Didn't Agree to Power the AI Boom
Community resistance is now the primary obstacle to AI data center expansion — and the projects getting blocked are not coming back.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors did not issue a position paper or pass a resolution. They held a vote — seven to zero — against a project the developers had specifically asked them not to name publicly. That procedural detail is the story: the NDAs, the placeholder name, the request for anonymity all reflect a site selection strategy built on the assumption that local deliberation could be managed. It could not. What the unanimous vote establishes is that hyperscale data center siting now faces a distributed veto that operates…