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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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James is joined by Karl Kasarda of InRangeTV to discuss the Project Blue data center and the coalition of people who campaigned against its construction in Tucson.
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0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:02.0 | CallZone Media |
0:07.0 | Hello and welcome for the show. |
0:12.0 | It's me, James, today, and I'm very fortunate to be joined by friend of the show, Carl Casada. |
0:18.0 | How you doing, Carl? |
0:19.0 | Oh, I'm doing great, and when I hear a friend of the show with any of you all, |
0:22.2 | are you James, it's a real honor to me. So I'm honored to be your friend and a friend of the show. So I'm glad to be here. Yeah, thank you. We always appreciate you being here and everything you do within range. Carl, we're not here to talk about with gunstuff today, which is nice in a way because we're here to talk about something which is also very important, right, in terms of keeping people safe. And that is activism against |
0:42.4 | like corporate destruction of our environment. We're here to talk about something called Project |
0:46.8 | Blue specifically. Can you explain to listeners who are not familiar, folks who maybe, you know, |
0:52.7 | haven't heard about it, what Project |
0:54.2 | Blue was proposed to be. |
0:56.6 | Yeah, and it's not dead either. |
0:58.6 | We'll talk about that more. |
0:59.5 | But Project Blue was a, was, we'll see, a 290 acre data center project. |
1:07.7 | Put that in scope, 290 acres, whoa, data center south of Tucson, |
1:13.6 | through a company called Beale infrastructure that through people's hard work came to find out |
1:18.0 | it was for Amazon, but a 290 acre AI data center south of Tucson. Yeah, that is vast. |
1:28.7 | I'm trying to think of a, like, |
1:31.7 | I can't think of a comparison for 290 acres, |
1:36.1 | but that is a huge amount of, like, computing power, right? |
1:36.5 | I guess. |
1:39.5 | It's hard to fathom that kind of space when you think about it. |
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