“Arizona isn’t broke. It’s being robbed,” said Alejandra Gomez, Executive Director of LUCHA. “For years, billion-dollar data centers have benefited from public subsidies while Arizona families were told to accept less: less housing, less healthcare, less food assistance, less heat relief, and fewer basic services.

That is why earlier this year Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) worked directly with Democratic lawmakers to draft and introduce SB 1463, legislation aimed at repealing Arizona’s data center tax breaks and restoring public dollars back into our communities. The bill, championed by Democratic Sen. Priya Sundareshan and Rep. Oscar De Los Santos, confronts a problem that has become impossible to ignore: Arizona is giving away roughly $40 million every year to billion-dollar data centers w

Democracy in Maricopa County is dangerously close to falling into the hands of a partisan actor with direct ties to President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy machine.