Amazon Circumvented a Gilroy Community Vote for a Massive AI Data Center Using 45-Year-Old Rules
Tom's Hardware / Hacker News·low signal
Tom's Hardware reported that Amazon used decades-old procedural rules to lock Gilroy, California residents out of the public comment window for a large AI data center project, drawing 60 points and 66 comments on HN. It is the latest instance of the pattern where datacenter siting outruns local land-use process, and the comment thread focused on how little leverage municipalities retain once entitlements predate the AI buildout. Marked low: single-source, and the article body could not be retrieved to verify the project's capacity, cost, or power and water figures.