How Amazon built a data center in a California town without anyone noticing

The company and Gilroy, Calif., officials spent years quietly negotiating a $2 billion project that few residents knew about until construction began

"The futures of data centers and cities in the USA are closely interconnected," the authors of a recent study wrote.

Eric Adams was bombarded with boos and told he belongs "in prison" as he pitched a Wisconsin crowd on a controversial AI data center proposal.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Bloomberg/Getty Images Amazon is upgrading its Indiana data center campus to support its AGI team's frontier model effort. Amazon continues to invest in its own frontier models despite last month's AGI job cuts. Amazon increased its 2026 AI capex to $220 billion, reflecting rising computing deman

They didn’t love his swagger. Former Mayor Eric Adams got heckled and shouted down during a Wisconsin meeting as he tried to pitch locals on an AI data center, a wild video shows. The excruciating video — first reported by Hell Gate — shows the one-term mayor awkwardly introduce himself to the Wisconsin Rapids crowd, w