About 40 homeless people are tucked away on a small parcel of land adjacent to busy Highway 237.

The encampment sits around the same location where Microsoft plans to construct two data centers in San Jose near the Milpitas border. The unhoused residents said a Caltrans worker tipped them off to a looming sweep. Officials from Caltrans, Santa Clara County and San Jose deny any such plan. Yet someone has put the encampment on notice, and its residents are on edge.

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