Tucson leaders unanimously rejected a massive data center dubbed Project Blue last year amid outcry from the community with concerns about water, power and resources that they didn’t want put toward a data center. It was a heated moment that came to a head during an August council meeting. But despite that vote, the project is still being built. Developer Beale Infrastructure got the zoning they needed from Pima County instead and announced they would build the data center to be air-cooled instead of water-cooled. But now Tucson says a contractor working on the construction of Project Blue has been using Tucson water anyway and they’ve revoked their permit to do it.

Other data center water use news:

• The Guardian: ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
• KUTV (Salt Lake City): Residents question water use as Utah faces drought, data center plan