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Amazon’s AI data-center buildout keeps colliding with local resistance
AI & Tech·Short term·▲ +2%

Amazon will face more community pushback around the Gilroy site and similar projects, especially where water use and public-comment timing become flashpoints in California.

This is the local-politics version of the AI infrastructure boom. As Amazon expands data-center capacity, communities are increasingly challenging how these projects are approved, powered and watered.

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This is the local-politics version of the AI infrastructure boom. As Amazon expands data-center capacity, communities are increasingly challenging how these projects are approved, powered and watered.

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Amazon’s Gilroy data-center project began construction after navigating zoning rules that date back 45 years, according to reporting cited in the item. Residents say the public-comment window had already lapsed before data centers became a major local issue, while Amazon says it held notices, meetings and an open house. The company also says it is building wastewater recovery infrastructure and a pipeline to supply the site.

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Amazon’s AI data-center buildout keeps colliding with local resistance

A Gilroy, California project shows how Amazon can lean on old zoning rules to advance a massive data-center build even as residents complain they were shut out of the process.

Tom's Hardware·6h ago
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