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  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/how-amazon-and-gilroy-california-quietly-negotiated-a-2b-data-center",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-08T10:30:01.000Z",
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  "summary": "Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly negotiating $2 billion project that few residents knew about until work began",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/data-insight-russias-largest-online-retailer-wildberries-which-owes",
        "published": "2026-08-09T04:45:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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