About NDDC
A leaderful coalition fighting for a sustainable, healthy, and resilient Sonoran Desert.
No Desert Data Center is a leaderful coalition made up of business owners, union members, data scientists, medical professionals, Indigenous land advocates, photographers, researchers, environmentalists, artists and writers, teachers and students, parents and youth, community and labor organizers, and concerned citizens. We are volunteers organizing to defeat shortsighted and unjust, extractive economic development.
We fight at the intersection of many causes. These include but are not limited to: public health, water security, energy equity, sustainable economic development, tribal consultation and sovereignty, demilitarization, immigrant justice, environmental impacts, and governance transparency. We are pro-democracy, anti-fascist, and opposed to genocide.
We are unified in our vision of the future that is sustainable, healthy, and resilient. We organize to inform decision makers and pressure them to prioritize long-term community investments over short-term economic gain. We act because we believe in the power of community, and the sacredness of natural resources. We care deeply about the land we call home.
Our coalition believes people have the power and our interconnected struggles catalyze our commitment to a just, equitable, and healthy desert community. Our coalition ensures extractive interests will always have to contend with the community.
This work extends across Tucson, Pima County, and the Santa Cruz River Watershed as a whole. This work does not end at borders but expands to support neighboring communities in the Sonoran Desert.
We ask that community members not be discouraged by false inevitabilities. Our coalition completely rejects the “inevitability mindset” that has scarred Tucson with Urban Renewal, TCE poisoning, and the death of a free-flowing Santa Cruz River. Our coalition completely rejects corporate intimidation. We urge our neighbors to stand firm in their demands for just governance, transparency, healthy communities in the Sonoran Desert, and well-paying local jobs that are sustainable.
Our Position
Our coalition stands firm on its position of Not One Drop for any development that has no intention to actively regenerate & revitalize the land, and reconcile the harmful legacy of extractive industries in the Sonoran Desert.