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.
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.
