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AZ Primary

I am a registered voter but not affiliated with either party which gives me the option of requesting whichever primary ballot I would like. I usually just skip it, but is there any reason to get involved this year?

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u/Dapper-Ad-9767 — 1 day ago
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Women say Mark Lamb used threats to suppress sexting, nude pics

This should be an automatic disqualification (threatening to send cops to suppress your perversions)

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u/neepster44 — 2 days ago
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Recall Effort for Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved of a massive data center in Surprise early this month despite massive community objection. Given this public outrage, why do I not see a bigger movement to recall the officials on this board?

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u/PsychoKitty6899 — 3 days ago
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Judge won't pause Arizona AG's groundwater lawsuit against Saudi-owned farm

I'm glad this suit hasn't been blocked. It needs to play out.

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u/mentalscribbles — 2 days ago
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Tucson pulled Project Blue's construction water meter on May 4. About 2 acre-feet of water has to come back.

Quick breakdown for anyone who's been following Project Blue but didn't catch the May 4 letter.

Tucson Water had issued a temporary construction-water meter to Ames Construction for use at the Project Blue site. Ames picked it up on April 24 and used it for dust control. A resident raised the question with a Ward 4 staffer, and on May 4, Tucson City Manager Tim Thomure's letter pulled the meter and told Beale Infrastructure to "make Tucson's water supply whole" by handing back 2 acre-feet (about 650,000 gallons) of water credits.

What I don't think comes through in most of the national coverage: Thomure didn't need a Council vote to do this.

Council already unanimously rejected Project Blue last year. The site sits in unincorporated Pima County, past city limits in the Houghton/Vail direction, outside Tucson Water's authorized service area. That construction meter was a one-off Tucson never had to issue in the first place, which means it's a one-off the City Manager could revoke without going back to Council. The May 4 letter is the cleanup pass on a decision Council had already made.

Side note on how I got here: I keep a small dataset of US AI data centers and the water utilities that serve them. When I tried to add Project Blue this week, the site coordinates fell outside Tucson Water's service area in the data too. Same fact, different form.

One ask for anyone closer to this than I am: does anyone have a confirmed lat/lng for the Project Blue construction site? The Beale filings reference a few different addresses around Houghton and I want to pin the right one down.

Disclosure: I run tapwaterdata.com. Five other facilities I did publish, with methodology and per-resident math, are over there: https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/guides/data-center-water-usage

u/neo2bin — 3 days ago
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Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts

The title is a mouthful, but the study was done in the Phoenix Metro area, so I thought it was interesting:

  • This short communication addresses that gap by presenting the first vehicle-based traverse measurements of air temperature in residential neighborhoods downwind of operational data centers.
  • ... downwind air temperature warming as high as 2.2 °C, with average downwind air temperatures 0.7–0.9 °C warmer than corresponding upwind areas
  • The 36 MW Mesa facility rejects waste heat equivalent to the electricity consumption of approximately 40,000 households
  • the 169 MW Chandler campus is equivalent to over 180,000 households
  • The Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area, is among the fastest-growing hyperscale markets, hosting facilities by NTT, CyrusOne, EdgeCore, Iron Mountain, Stream, and Apple, with hundreds of megawatts of operational capacity and thousands more proposed
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u/sonoran_goofball — 3 days ago