Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window

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idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d (1 reply)

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.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d

It would be a shame if there was an unscheduled rapid disassembly.