Tony Davis

1 week ago | tucson.com | Tony Davis

Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that would authorize disposal of millions of acres across the West. The bill, introduced last week, would require both the U.S. Interior secretary and the U.S. Agriculture secretary, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, to sell between .5% and .75% of their total land holdings.

2 weeks ago | govtech.com | Tony Davis

County Administrator Jan Lesher has for the first time identified the site developer and prospective land purchaser for the now county-owned, 290-acre data center site near the county fairgrounds. The prospective land purchaser is Humphrey’s Peak Properties, LLC, of San Francisco, and the developer is Beale Infrastructure, a company developing other data centers nationally, a new memo from Lesher says.

2 weeks ago | tucson.com | Tony Davis

Pima County's administrator recommends approval of a proposed multi-billion-dollar data center complex on the far southeast side that will eventually become one of the largest electricity users in the entire Tucson Electric Power system. County Administrator Jan Lesher has for the first time identified the site developer and prospective land purchaser for the now county-owned, 290-acre data center site near the county fairgrounds.

2 weeks ago | tucson.com | Tony Davis

A proposed massive complex of 8 to 10 data centers is coming up for a Pima County board vote as soon as June 17, two county supervisors told the Star, but they and the public have been denied key information including how much water and electricity it would use. The details of the complex are currently shielded from the public by a nondisclosure agreement between the county and the still undisclosed company that would buy and develop the site.

4 weeks ago | tucson.com | Tony Davis

The proponent of building at least one data center on Tucson's far southeast side is negotiating with Tucson Water to have an 18-mile pipeline built to carry reclaimed, treated sewage effluent to the project, two Pima County supervisors say. A company negotiating with county officials would pay to build this line as a way to ensure the project doesn't drain Tucson's drinking water supply, said Supervisor Matt Heinz, whose district ends about a mile west of where the data center would be located.