There was one more recent announcement from the City of Mesa's Newsroom that one more data center is under construction - NOBODY ASKED the impact from a Decades-old Mega-Drought and drawing down more water from the underground limited resources stored in the aquifers that were once either former agricultural lands subject to soil stabilization or barren acreage now the focus of rampant real estate speculation for industrial developments
A Freak Act of Engineering: Sink Holes Swallow Parts of Mesa's Elliott Road High Tech Corridor 
Those are recent stories appearing on the surface of news headlines - Blame it on the Monsoon Rains if you want to, but there's something deeper going on here in the Endless Suburban Sprawl driving the industrial high tech growth and massive master-planned communities in the ever-expanding fringes of The East Valley in cities and towns on top of gigantic underground Geo-Physical Sinkhole Hazard Zones.
Surface lands are collapsing.
No doubt about that,,,,
Surface lands are collapsing.
No doubt about that,,,,
And the Mesa City Council - always approving more unsustainable expansion
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Case In Point: $10 Million Sunk Into Development of Mesa's Elliot Road Tech Corridor and more millions spent on Infinite Suburbia all across The East Valley: What's the price we pay for draining down underground water aquifers in this time of Drought? 
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Case In Point: $10 Million Sunk Into Development of Mesa's Elliot Road Tech Corridor and more millions spent on Infinite Suburbia all across The East Valley: What's the price we pay for draining down underground water aquifers in this time of Drought? The headline of this post tells only part of the story about sinkholes. Lands where we live in the desert are being exploited for so-called "economic development" where excessive demand for natural limited resources like water are created consequences that we can now see only in snippets and episodes that barely scratch below-the-surface until sinkholes swallow-up man-made problems: The Arizona Department of Water Resources says land subsidence has been happening here since the early 1900s.
Scientists at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration blame large amounts of groundwater that was pumped years ago and report it “has the potential to cause costly structural damages . "
The pumping from wells and underground aquifers is accelerating faster than ever before.
Here in Mesa water treatment and wastewater treatment are eating up more than $160 Million Dollars every year.
The new Signal Butte Water Treatment, built at a cost of over $185,000,000 to supply demands from data centers who use excessive supplies of water (and provide only about six or "a hand-full of jobs" are driving up costs to taxpayers.)
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Three sinkholes in Mesa
Here in Mesa water treatment and wastewater treatment are eating up more than $160 Million Dollars every year.
The new Signal Butte Water Treatment, built at a cost of over $185,000,000 to supply demands from data centers who use excessive supplies of water (and provide only about six or "a hand-full of jobs" are driving up costs to taxpayers.)
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Three sinkholes in Mesa
Published: 6:38 PM PST August 13, 2018
https://www.12news.com/video/news/local/...sinkholes.../75-8219149
2 days ago
Three sinkholes are near trench lines that exist because of three separate contractors. Elliot Road will be closed from Signal Butte to Ellsworth until the sinkholes are evaluated and repaired. Link to video from Channel 12 News >> https://www.12news.com/video/news/local
HUH? Blame it on the contractors?
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www.azfamily.com/story/38878037/sinkholes-close-mesa-road-until-repairs-completed
2 days ago - Three serious sinkholes have closed a road in Mesa for at least a couple more days following monsoon storms.
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Here's another Sinkhole video from Gilbert uploaded in the same month February 2016
where another sinkhole swallowed-up and killed a farmhand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eBvKLwN6rw
Feb 23, 2016 - Uploaded by ABC15 Arizona
A sinkhole opened up on Greenfield Road in Gilbert on Tuesday morning. ◂ ABC15 is your destination for ...
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Both are monsters consuming natural limited resources that tap into and drain sub-surface groundwater aquifers causing a series over-time that create collapses above-ground. They are not infrequent nor isolated.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources says land subsidence has been happening here since the early 1900s. Scientists at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration blame large amounts of groundwater that was pumped years ago and report it “has the potential to cause costly structural damages,” according to ASU researcher Megan Miller in a report from the Arizona Association of Realtors titled Arizona Sinkholes: Disclosure & Liability. You can read it here
A sinkhole opened Feb. 5, 2016, in Queen Creek, Ariz., killing 60-year-old irrigation worker Guadalupe Gomez Nila. (Courtesy of Town of Queen Creek)
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Sinkholes are occuring in current and past land-use planning areas, including agricultural lands in fast-growing Queen Creek, according to this report in February 2016 from The Washington Post.
Who's benefiting?
Real estate developers
Who's paying the price outside of southeast Mesa? Everyone
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Blogger Note: Just like the sinkholes causing the collapses on Elliott Road, these are not "isolated incidents" no matter how much the fast-growing Town of Queen Creek wanted to manage the public perception of the risks and hazards
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‘It was a freak act of nature’:
Sinkhole swallows and kills Arizona farmhand
by Lindsey Bever
A sinkhole opened Feb. 5, 2016, in Queen Creek, Ariz., killing 60-year-old irrigation worker Guadalupe Gomez Nila. (Courtesy of Town of Queen Creek)
"An Arizona irrigation worker drove his pickup truck up to a berm, stepped out of the vehicle and dropped the tailgate. Seconds later, a neighbor told authorities, the earth opened and swallowed him . . .
The neighbor, who was in her garden, “saw his arms go up in the air,” Maricopa County Sheriff’s Det. Doug Matteson told The Washington Post. “She didn’t see him get up, so she called 911.”
Police said 60-year-old Guadalupe Gomez Nila was killed Friday afternoon when he was swallowed by the sinkhole — which measured 15 feet wide and 12 to 18 feet deep.
“It was a freak act of nature,” Matteson said. “It’s just a sad scene. When the hole opened up, it was almost like being struck by lightning. … Our heart goes out to his family. . .
Officials said Nila was working on private property owned by Sossaman Farms. Matteson, the sheriff’s detective, said authorities believe Nila was planning to shut off the water or check on it when the ground split open. . .
Constance Halonen-Wilson, public information officer for the town of Queen Creek, said officials believe the sinkhole was an isolated incident.
“Crews worked to repair and fill the hole on Saturday,” she told The Post in a statement. “We are working with the Arizona State Geological Survey Office to ensure the area is safe.” HUH??
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READY FOR ALL THE HAPPY TALK AND OVER-BLOWN HOOP-LA:
Power, land, water, natural gas, fiber, market access, quick entitlement process, Foreign Trade Zone – the Elliot Road Technology Corridor has everything ...
The City of Mesa is excited about an upcoming project that will transform Elliot Road into a "Technology Corridor" to serve as an economic development catalyst
Apr 19, 2018 - Mesa to sink $10 million into Elliot Road expansion for tech corridor. Mesa will sink $10 million into improvements along Elliot Road from Ellsworth to Signal Butte roads to alter the stretch into a "technology corridor." The changes will expand Elliot from a single-lane road to a three-way stretch in both directions.
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Mar 2, 2018 - Mesa, and the Elliot Road Tech Corridor in particular, was an attractive site for a variety of reasons, including ready access to the significant power, water and fiber infrastructure a large data center requires. The corridor is near SRP's Browning receiving station and 500kV, 230kV and 69kV transmission lines.
Jan 18, 2018 - Mesa lands data center in Elliot Road Tech Corridor. A new data center development is coming to Mesa in the Elliot Road Tech Corridor on a long-dormant parcel of land once slated to become a regional shopping and employment center.
www.azfamily.com/story/38291320/mesa-hopes-to-court-companies-with-tech-corridor
May 28, 2018 - The city is making a big push to entice companies to move to what they are calling the "Elliot Road Tech Corridor." Places like Apple are ...
Mar 5, 2018 - A new Denver-based data center developer has plans to break ground on three facilities across the country this year and has chosen Mesa's ...
ktar.com/story/1983402/edgecore-breaks-ground-campus-mesa-technology-corridor/
Mar 9, 2018 - Located in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, EdgeCore selected the site to be its first North American ...
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IN A TIME OF MEGA-HEAT AND MEGA-DROUGHT WHEN DATA CENTERS DEMAND MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER EVERY DAY FOR COOLING, HERE'S A PRESS RELEASE AND ANNOUNCEMENT
(Written by a company representative named Hannah Glock in "a canned press release)
Comarch to locate 32,000-square-foot data center in Mesa
June 15, 2021 at 9:58 am
Comarch, a global software house delivering IT solutions for improving business efficiency, announced today it will build its 32,000-square-foot, North American Data Center on three acres at Ellsworth Road and Prairie Avenue. Comarch expects to begin construction in June of 2021 and start operations in mid-2022.
Investing in its own infrastructure is part of Comarch's strategy and is related to the plans to expand its business in the American market, where the company has been implementing IT projects since 1999.
Comarch currently provides data center services for clients from North and South America in rented spaces in Chicago and Columbus, as well as in Montreal and Toronto. When the US facility is launched, all of these servers will be moved to Mesa. Comarch already has its own server rooms in Poland (Krakow and Warsaw), as well as in France and Germany.
The data center in Mesa will be used to host infrastructure and applications, support and maintenance, IT project delivery, business development, consulting services, and for the delivery of mission-critical IT systems.
"We're thrilled to welcome Comarch's first US facility to Mesa," Mesa Mayor John Giles said. "Their renowned systems and IT solutions join the growing trend of technology-based companies finding opportunity and a talented workforce in our city."
Comarch was founded in 1993 by Professor Janusz Filipiak, a tenured scientist at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krak?w, Poland. Since then, the company has built an international network of subsidiaries. Today, the Comarch Group has kept its family roots and employs over 6,500 employees in more than 30 countries around the world. Comarch specializes in providing IT solutions to various industries such as telecommunications, retail, banking and insurance, airlines, fuel, utilities, and healthcare.
As its first building in the US, this data center will act as Comarch's flagship building. Comarch has been operating on the American market since the 1990s when the company opened its branch in Washington. The launch of the office in America was part of Comarch's long-term strategy of building a global brand. The company currently has offices in New York and Rosemont. American companies that have opted for Comarch systems and services include JetBlue airlines, Enterprise Rent-A-Car car rental, and TrueValue hardware store chain, among others.
The Mesa data center will also serve South American customers. Many companies already store data in server rooms that Comarch leases in the USA and Canada. Hosting services are used by: Despegar, a leading online travel company in Latin America, and YPF, a global energy company.
Comarch has worked closely with architects to ensure that the design is architecturally efficient, appealing, and positively received in the region.
"We chose Mesa due to it progressing as an up-and-coming technology region, reasonable energy prices, existing infrastructure, lack of natural disasters, and business-friendly opt-in processes which reduced timelines for go-live," said Louis Rossi, Comarch's director of business development for North America. "The Mesa Office of Economic Development team was also a positive factor as they created a support system to make it easier to navigate an otherwise complicated endeavor for an international company."
"Mr. Rossi hit the nail on the head as to why technology-oriented companies are choosing Mesa as their new home," District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson stated. "The staff in Mesa has done a great job in attracting and marketing our community, and it is not only a win for our citizens but for our neighboring communities and the region."
The general contractor of the data center will be The Weitz Company. The total cost of Comarch's investment in building the new center will be approximately USD 22 million.
About Comarch
Comarch is a global provider of technologically advanced software designed to help enterprises improve their business efficiency, reduce operational costs, and build strong relationships with all of their partners and clients. Comarch has made its name by working with some of the most renowned brands and organizations in the world, including various airline holding companies, telecoms, financial institutions, retailers, energy companies, and many others. Comarch's current clients include JetBlue Airways, BP Global, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Technicolor, Heineken, Viasat, and Bic.
Comarch offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including competitive salaries, 100% paid health insurance, a 401(k) match, and a wellness reimbursement program. Employees have the opportunity to do exciting work in a rapidly growing department with leading world brands and learn from specialists to develop a professional IT career.
About the City of Mesa
With a population of more than 518,000 Mesa, Arizona is the 35th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. Mesa encompasses 138 square miles inside a 21-city region that has a population of 4.9 million people and is projected to grow to 5.3 million by 2025. Mesa is a vibrant city and a premier location for business development opportunities. Serving industry leaders such as Apple, AT&T, Banner Health, Boeing, Bridgestone, Dexcom, MD Helicopters, Nammo Defense Systems, Northrop Grumman, and more, Mesa is a smart location for intelligent companies. www.SelectMesa.com
Media Contacts
Comarch
Hannah Glock
Hannah.Glock@comarch.com
646-659-0737
City of Mesa Office of Economic Development
Kim Lofgreen
Kim.lofgreen@mesaaz.gov
480-644-3962
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