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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)

Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly negotiating $2 billion project that few residents knew about until work began

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