Cross posted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/t/1852609
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/50438867
Furious residents packing city-council meetings have become a familiar scene as proposals for data centers spark backlash in towns across America. But in Gilroy, Calif., known as the world’s garlic capital, there’s a twist: The $2 billion facility that residents are railing against is already being built.
“Many if not most residents first learned about this project after construction had already begun,” Coleen Crew, an elementary-school teacher, told the council at a recent meeting.
There were no public meetings or votes before a lone city staffer gave Amazon the green light last July to build a 438,500-square-foot data center on 56 acres of farmland 30 miles south of San Jose.
If we keep waiting on the government to step in, nothing is going to change.
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Sounds like they should start carting around that guillotine they had in Salem. Sends a pretty clear message
All this for Ted at the office to make a funny picture of his co-worker.
