But have they considered that those rules only protect them from formal objections? Presumably the gilroy data centers are still vulnerable to the standard laws of physics.

Weird that city counselors are willing to get kicked out at the next election for... what?

How fucking much are they getting paid?

"Bozzo also highlighted the benefits that Amazon will bring to the city, especially increased tax revenue, construction jobs, and a million-dollar donation towards a new fire truck. He also pointed out that the tech giant has been giving grants to non-profit organizations in the city, as well as sponsoring the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival."

Ah yes, the old "they gave us some spare change so suck it up and deal with it plebians" strategy.

People working on this thing need to go missing at an alarming rate.

Making it so people have no other option but to sabotage, so that they can collect more slaves

If someone goes on trial for burning this place down, don't mention anything about jury nullification until after you've been selected for jury duty.

Obscure, archaic rules from decades ago apply because that's the way the law works!

(Unless it has to do at all with giving people human rights or improving their life in any way, in which case the plain text of everything including amendments is up for endless interpretation.)

Gilroy, CA... Ah, yes right there next to the San Andreas fault. And my my all that local freshwater currently just supplies the "salad bowl of the world". Easily a $100b+ industry. But rather food -- hello, ai datacenter.

Whomever greenlighted this is accidentally falling out of a 2nd story barn window.

Man, who needs garlic? Just ask Claude to grow it for you.

"Circumvents" seems like an odd word for completing the process before people knew that they should be angry about datacenters.