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Mayor reports regional data-center discussion, urges residents to check technical claims about water use
Summary
Mayor Johann Wallace summarized a regional meeting on data centers and said modern facilities often minimize water use; he urged residents to review current technical data and noted agriculture can use substantially more water than many data centers.
Mayor Johann R. Wallace told the council on March 26 that he attended a regional meeting in Benson on data centers where Arizona State University and utility and county representatives discussed technical issues including power and water use.
Wallace said many attendees are concerned about water and power demands, but he noted modern data-center designs and operators often minimize local water use by using closed-loop cooling systems and recycled water when possible. He also said comparisons presented at the meeting showed agriculture can use far more water than some data-center configurations. "A lot of information might be old," Wallace said, urging residents to check the latest technical material before forming opinions about proposed facilities.
Context: The Cochise County Board of Supervisors has engaged on the subject as communities evaluate proposals and potential site impacts. Wallace’s remarks were informational; no council policy was proposed or adopted at the March 26 meeting.
