Data Centers

 That is the point, they don't need to use fresh water. Just water. Waste water can't be used for human consumption, but can be used for everything else. You are thinking in a box. I am not naive about anything, I understand all the factors. Factor 1. AI is the future, and data centers are the support for that computer network infrastructure, that is a given. 2. Those enters are coming whether the people like it or not, or else, ditch the computers and devices in your life, and that isn't going to happen. 3. Those centers have downsides, down sides that a city can either mitigate, or dismiss. The citizens fears and desires have to be taken in to account to a certain extent. But individual desires sometimes have to give way to the greater good. 4. The revenue that the Data Centers will bring, now and in the future. 5. Workforce. The workforce that Data Centers bring are higher paying, higher educated tech jobs, and skilled labor. Instead of lower paying tourist, and AG support jobs. Not to mention those jobs will be year around, not seasonal. Maybe then some of our home grown geniuses will stay here, and not leave. Yuma's workforce is not considered of average intelligence. That is why Tech companies don't relocate here. The Centers want to locate here because of the vast expanse of land. 6. Land usage. We a as city make the centers be away from civilization. There is plenty of desert. Desert that isn't used to grow our food. Also, I didn't hear anyone whining about paving over crop land to put in a subdivision, or strip mall. It is the same land use problem we have always had. If we don't quit paving over land we grow our food on, we will end up eating test tube food. 7. If the Data centers wish to relocate here, there must be criteria in order to appease everyone. A. have the center partially, or completely underground. B. The entire place run by solar or some other form of alternative energy. C. They buy municipal and tribal waste water to cool the computers. D. They use desert land not used for agriculture or development. They made land near MCAS off limits for development, we can do the same for the Centers. Make a Data Centers Park. Where we put all them in the same place together. That way the infrastructure is there, and it is away from development. The cost for the company is lower, and yjr tax revenue is also better. 8. Finally, this mindset that we don't want the centers because it makes some billionaire money or whatever other trope that is popular this week. That is weak and irrelevant thinking. I don't care who the owner of the center is, nor do I care how much they make. Until they start paying my bills, I don't care how much anyone else makes. I only care about the Center and how it relates to me, and my community. What others do with their money, is neither my business, nor my concern. I simply don't care. I only care about what I can control. We as a community can't control what a corporation makes, but we can control how the company affects us all. If they don;t want to jump through our hoops, then they need to be sent packing. We need growth and jobs, without losing our quality of life. The half century economic thinking that got us into a seasonal economy, is archaic, and obsolete. We aa a community need to pivot to a 21st century economic thinking, so our community doesn't get left behind.