In California garlic town, Amazon's $2 billion data center 'won' approval with no public vote

In California garlic town, Amazon's $2 billion data center 'won' approval with no public vote

Gilroy, California, is a farming community with deep ties to garlic. But on a 56-acre site off Camino Arroyo, a different kind of project has been taking shape that many residents say advanced with almost no public notice. Amazon Web Services won approval for a $2 billion data center there without a City Council vote or Planning Commission hearing. The approval shows how fast-growing artificial intelligence infrastructure can move into communiti…