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.
Some government leaders signed nondisclosure agreements early in the process
How can this be even remotely legal. You work for the public you cannot reasonably be held to an NDA that requires you to not tell your BOSS what you’re fucking doing!
Look at what meta did in Louisiana. The governor called up the Speaker and said they needed to pass a blank bill because a powerful donor wanted it and they all got in line, passed the bill and filled it in at the 11th hour. What was in the bill? Why it was approval of a 6 square mile (3840 acre) data center with no oversight or public comment. Just approved one of the largest data centers in the world in the middle of the night.
It is illegal in California as of 2026-01-01
This only seems to apply to the state legistature, is this also applied to local government?
I don’t know! If it only applies to the California State Assembly (and maybe the California State Senate) then that would be an egregious loophole.
It all depends on howuch you got paid
Mayor Greg Bozzo said other big industrial projects have been approved in the same manner over the years, but didn’t cause any uproar.
“It didn’t bother them that a food-distribution center came to Gilroy without their engagement, but now it bothers them that a data center is coming to Gilroy without them having the possibility of engagement,” Bozzo said.
“We…have an opportunity to change the way that we do business in Gilroy,” the mayor said. “We’re adapting to the times.”
Seems like the article accidentally misspelled his name with an extra “z”. What an absolutely shit take. The corruption here is so obvious.
Equating a Food Distribution center with a Datacenter is villainous work
‘But now it bothers them that a concentration camp is being built’
Dumbass doesn’t seem to understand that what is being built is actually the point
Whataboutism at its finest. Deflect, do not confront the issue at hand.
Datacenters bring absolutely no business to the region they are built
And about as many jobs as a gas station
tar and feather this cunt
Eat him.
use them as a fuse for the datacenter… all electricity must pass through them first
deleted by creator
Be careful about that too. You never know who’s listening. There was a student teacher who sent a private snapchat to her boyfriend and roommates where she joked about shooting up the school. Within hours the message had been forwarded by meta to the FBI and sheriffs officers were at the school talking to her.
Which is hilarious, cops showing up to talk to someone about violence.
Like, is anyone ever gonna sit the cops down and have a chat about how many innocent people they actually kill every year?
deleted by creator
Tarring someone involves hot tar. It’s at least a first degree burn in most of your skin. The infections and fever would be hell.
Molotov’s are pretty cheap/easy to make and they’re pretty effective during construction, before the sprinkler system is installed+charged.
There’s a solvent you can pick up at a hardware store called toluene. If styrofoam is mixed in it makes a sticky, yet pourable goo.
Do keep it away from ignition sources, the mix is extremely difficult to extinguish.
plain gasoline works well with styrofoam too. Add pieces until they kinda stop instantly dissolving and you have reached a very effective stopping point
It depends on what you want, if you want a product that will splash and spread, the Toluene is the solvent of choice.
Gasoline makes for a much thicker paste because it doesn’t completely dissolve the styrofoam.
when the illusion of choice is shattered will the dreamers wake up?
probably not.
