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.
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?
I didn’t say shit