By Tony David | Arizona Daily Star
With Tucson out of the picture for the Project Blue data-center complex, Marana has emerged as a possible prospect for a replacement location.
Not only is the town of 62,000 people Pima County’s second largest municipality after Tucson, but officials representing Project Blue have already had two meetings with town officials to express potential interest in locating there.
On Monday, officials of the Caliber Group, which handles media inquiries for Beale Infrastructure, Project Blue’s developers, didn’t respond to an email from the Star asking whether the company will look seriously at trying to locate a data-center complex in Marana.
But if Project Blue officials try to build data centers in Marana, they will face much stricter rules in the crucial areas of water, energy and noise than they faced in Tucson.
