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.
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.
Nomitive determinism: he is a real fucking bozo. All these fucks need to be gone.
For the record:
Food distribution > Data center
Greg Bozzo = Bozo
Do those other warehouses suck shitloads of extra power and water in an already water-poor state that has rolling brownouts and sky-high power and water costs?
No.
So the people are right to know there’s a difference. Apparently mayors are too stupid to know.
They can vote out the city and county leaders then change the zoning to warehouses only.
It doesn’t have the consent of the governed and is invalid
the old nancy pelosi shuffle
