They FOUGHT Amazon’s $3.6B AI Data Center

Breaking Points journalist James Li interviews organizers from the No Desert Data Center Coalition about their successful grassroots fight against Amazon's $3.6 billion "Project Blue" AI data center in Tucson, Arizona. The organizers detail how the proposed facility would have consumed millions of gallons of water in the desert and driven up electricity rates, and explain how community pressure stopped the city council from annexing the land. The video covers coalition-building strategies, greenwashing tactics by developers, connections to similar fights in Memphis and across the country, and a non-partisan framing that links data center opposition to fiscal responsibility, energy security, and democratic self-governance.