As San Jose eyes new data centers, residents push back on possible environmental impact

SAN JOSE’S PLAN to support the rapid development of new data centers in coming years is running into increasingly vocal pushback.

What might have been a routine policy review session during last week’s City Council meeting instead became a venue for a procession of angry residents to vent their concerns about the city’s efforts to attract a dozen large energy users, including data centers, to the city and get them hooked onto the grid by the end of the decade.