How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)

Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes  —  Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly negotiating $2 billion project that few residents knew about until work began