Right outside of Tucson City Hall, about 50 members of the No Desert Data Center group held a rally celebrating the Tucson Mayor and City Council voting down plans to construct Project Blue, a proposed data center.

Today was a huge victory for the people of Tucson and it wouldnt have happened without thousands of people, Lee Ziesche said.

Lee Ziesche With No Desert Data Center, a group against the project, has been protesting the amount of water that would have been used.

In Tucson we can all feel how vital and scared water is, she said.

Ziesche said Tucsonans will always stand up to corporations like Beale Infrastructure, the developers, and Amazon Web Services, which the news outlet AZ Luminaria said was behind the project.

It is an incredibly precious resources and Beale wanted to

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