With water cuts looming in Arizona in US, locals fight data centres
Key takeaways
- Arizona residents have campaigned against the state’s growing number of data centres as they seek a share of the shrinking water supply.
- When they leave home, she reminds her mother to keep a bottle of ice with them to offer it to homeless people, who they sometimes find wilting in the Tucson heat.
- The group believes these would consume more water and power than the city set in the Sonoran Desert can afford.
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Arizona residents have campaigned against the state’s growing number of data centres as they seek a share of the shrinking water supply.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo No Desert Data Center protestors outside the Project Blue site in Pima county [Photo courtesy Kathleen Dreier]By Saumya Roy Published On 27 Jun 202627 Jun 2026Every morning Marisol Winfrey Herrera’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Jo reminds her to turn off the tap while washing her hands and brushing her teeth.
When they leave home, she reminds her mother to keep a bottle of ice with them to offer it to homeless people, who they sometimes find wilting in the Tucson heat. At first, they press the ice-filled bottles on the homeless folks to help them revive, then they offer the water to drink and hydrate. At her daycare, Jo is taught water-saving habits to combat Tucson’s soaring heat.