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#61
PlaniTulsa & Urban Planning / High Speed Rail In Texas and O...
Last post by Laramie - August 08, 2025, 08:09:27 PM
#62
Development & New Businesses / 15th and College (NW side)
Last post by Urban Enthusiast - August 08, 2025, 02:15:48 PMWork has started on the lot at the northwest corner of 15th and College. That parcel is owned by the same people as the Reeder's gas station at 21st and Lewis. It appears the building will be right up next to the sidewalk, which is great. Any clue what is being built?
#63
The Burbs / Re: Oklahoma City National Bas...
Last post by Laramie - August 07, 2025, 06:44:43 PM.
Best Highlights & Moments from the OKC Thunder's 2025 Title Run
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdnHlyraaA&t=668s
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Best Highlights & Moments from the OKC Thunder's 2025 Title Run
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdnHlyraaA&t=668s
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#64
National & International Politics / Re: President Trump- The Impli...
Last post by heironymouspasparagus - August 07, 2025, 02:43:38 PMAnd now for something entirely expected by the fascists running things...
They have made it plain they don't like the US. They want to destroy it. What better place than eliminating the US Constitution?
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/key-sections-us-constitution-deleted-152939615.html
They have made it plain they don't like the US. They want to destroy it. What better place than eliminating the US Constitution?
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/key-sections-us-constitution-deleted-152939615.html
#65
Local & State Politics / Re: None of the Above
Last post by heironymouspasparagus - August 07, 2025, 12:30:44 PMNot likely - our Piece of Stitt and his Minions took away the right and ability for initiative petitions.
#66
Local & State Politics / Re: Ryan Walters for Governor
Last post by heironymouspasparagus - August 07, 2025, 12:28:58 PMQuote from: patric on July 26, 2025, 08:16:39 PMOklahoma's Trump-Loving, Bible-Thumping Superintendent Faces Porn Probe.
"I saw them just walking across the screen, and I'm like, 'no." I'm sorry I even have to use this language, but I'm like, 'Those are her nipples.' And then I'm like, 'That's pubic hair.' What in the world am I watching?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-superintendent-trump-bible-porn-1235394675/
Yeah....just an accident...Lol. The people in this state will believe anything!
#67
Development & New Businesses / Re: American Heartland Theme P...
Last post by heironymouspasparagus - August 07, 2025, 12:26:20 PMAnd people actually thought this was legit....
SMH!
SMH!
#68
Development & New Businesses / Re: Rumored Facebook AI center
Last post by patric - August 07, 2025, 09:56:06 AMThis sounds very familiar:
The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits.
After weeks of escalating public outrage over the lack of transparency around Project Blue, the council voted to end negotiations and remove the annexation and development agreement from the upcoming council meeting agenda — a move that effectively shuts down one of the largest development projects ever considered by the city.
"The way that data centers are being built is not sustainable. "
Beale and Pima County entered into a purchase and sale agreement for 290 acres of unincorporated land in June. The project developer was interested in having that land annexed into Tucson to access city water supplies.
Moving ahead, the city council will begin the process of creating local ordinances to keep large water users accountable and update zoning requirements to address the impacts of possible future data centers.
Council members also expressed concerns about how the process of Project Blue took place, echoing a conversation happening at the county level about the use of non-disclosure agreements spurred by concerns around the project.
Amid the data center debate, there were a flurry of questions over how TEP would meet the center's significant energy demand, and how to ensure the additional cost wouldn't fall on residential consumers. Earlier this year, the company asked for a 14% rate hike.
"There was no way in this situation to guarantee that if we did build this data center that some partial outbuild for the power supply to the data center wasn't going to be passed on to our ratepayers," Cunningham said. "We've got to work towards seeing that we've fixed that."'
https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/tucson-city-council-rejects-project-blue-amid-intense-community-pressure/
The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits.
After weeks of escalating public outrage over the lack of transparency around Project Blue, the council voted to end negotiations and remove the annexation and development agreement from the upcoming council meeting agenda — a move that effectively shuts down one of the largest development projects ever considered by the city.
"The way that data centers are being built is not sustainable. "
Beale and Pima County entered into a purchase and sale agreement for 290 acres of unincorporated land in June. The project developer was interested in having that land annexed into Tucson to access city water supplies.
Moving ahead, the city council will begin the process of creating local ordinances to keep large water users accountable and update zoning requirements to address the impacts of possible future data centers.
Council members also expressed concerns about how the process of Project Blue took place, echoing a conversation happening at the county level about the use of non-disclosure agreements spurred by concerns around the project.
Amid the data center debate, there were a flurry of questions over how TEP would meet the center's significant energy demand, and how to ensure the additional cost wouldn't fall on residential consumers. Earlier this year, the company asked for a 14% rate hike.
"There was no way in this situation to guarantee that if we did build this data center that some partial outbuild for the power supply to the data center wasn't going to be passed on to our ratepayers," Cunningham said. "We've got to work towards seeing that we've fixed that."'
https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/tucson-city-council-rejects-project-blue-amid-intense-community-pressure/
#69
Development & New Businesses / Re: Amazon
Last post by patric - August 07, 2025, 09:51:12 AMQuote from: DTowner on February 15, 2019, 11:30:40 AMIt is probably safe to say it is much worse to have won the Amazon HQ2 bidding war only to lose it, than to have never won at all!
Data center's fate should have been settled long ago
Maybe it's a small dose of payback for offering hope to every minor berg and hamlet from one coast to the other that they might land Amazon HQ2. Then they found out you put the investment not far from where you have houses already. Pima County sent you a full-grown live saguaro hoping to woo you here.
I'm sure the non-disclosure agreements didn't help keep people in the loop. Well, that's what you get if an economic development project is kept so hush-hush the decision makers don't know the details until too late in the game.
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080625_tucson_data_blues_op/goodbye-blue-tucson-data-centers-fate-should-have-been-settled-long-ago/
#70
The Burbs / Re: New Oklahoma City Arena--B...
Last post by Laramie - August 01, 2025, 04:35:48 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ABFUVmwtw
The FULL Oklahoma City Thunder 2025 Champions Parade!{/B]
The FULL Oklahoma City Thunder 2025 Champions Parade!{/B]