Amazon expands: Datacenter site planned for Santa Clara

Amazon is continuing to expand its global datacenter footprint, this time with a proposed facility in the Golden State, to meet the growing demand for its cloud compute services. The latest bit barn for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to be near Gilroy, a city in California's Santa Clara County, where the cloud giant is planning …

[Phil O'Sophical]

Not sure I'd like to work there

Gilroy claims to be the garlic capital of the US, at certain times you can smell it from the local freeway as you drive by. They hold an annual festival that notoriously features garlic ice cream...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Not sure I'd like to work there

One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires

[Pascal Monett]

Re: Not sure I'd like to work there

I love garlic.

It keeps most everyone away from me.

Except salespeople. I'd need dog poo perfume for those, but that's a step too far for me.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Hot summer nights and diesel in the air

Has anyone told AWS that California has regular power generation deficits on hot summer evenings? Loss of western US hydroelectric power to drought isn't helping.

Hopefully they have a big budget for solar and batteries. No one's going to let them run dirty emergency generators 4pm to 10pm after each hot day.

[Jilara]

First they came for our orchards...

I'm as much to blame as any other tech worker, but prime farmland seems to be falling prey to these sorts of facilities, and you can't eat servers.

First the orchards of "the Valley of Heart's Delight" (I still haven't forgiven the loss of my favorite cherry orchards), and now they have come for our garlic.