Yana Kunachov

And I have seen bring energy to people around those individuals.

I don't know if that's going to mean a shift to Democratic politics, but I do think that has been interesting.

Yeah, I mean, the really big issue here has been data centers.

There's two new—

new kind of large-scale data centers proposed for Southern Arizona.

They would be the first like really big guys in the region.

And they have brought together like a really big and fast-growing coalition of people to oppose them.

Tucson actually voted against bringing in the data center proposed for most nearby.

To me, that has made people answer the existential question about resources here.

And it has also made people work together that maybe were not otherwise in the same room.

Yeah, I think it has been uniting in people's opposition.

I think people are concerned about what data centers mean for water.

I think it has also, you know, I cover local government a lot.

I think it has made people think about how they want government to talk to them and share information with them.

That was a big issue here, how the data center was brought forward, that people didn't know about it or didn't share about it.

publicly kind of earlier in the process.

And so I think it has just made people political actors in a way over the last year.

And I didn't see another issue galvanize people at quite the same level in their relationship with local government.

Yeah, I mean, I also think Arizona is interesting because two hours away in Phoenix, they have a lot of data centers, a lot of large scale data centers already and smaller localities are actually putting in laws to try to slow down their growth.

So I think people should always be watching these communities because I think in real time, you're seeing people kind of see the consequences of development of growth in an area that is more resource scarce than others and try to respond accordingly with the tools they have.