By AZ Daily Star
Amazon Web Services has pulled out of its long-planned role as future operator of the Project Blue data center complex on the Tucson area’s far southeast side, three sources told the Star.
Amazon has left the embattled project because its operations aren’t compatible with the project’s recently announced plans to use air cooling instead of water cooling of the data centers’ servers, the sources said.
Instead, the Project Blue developer, Beale Infrastructure, is negotiating with Meta, the company that operates Facebook, to replace Amazon as the center’s operator, they said.
