While nationwide, neighborhoods have fought to keep the electricity- and water-hungry data centers away, Vernon is welcoming another data center, seemingly without opposition.

By Ashley Orona, LA Public Press

At the corner of 48th Street and Santa Fe Avenue in industrial Vernon, a three-story building looms large among rumbling factories and warehouses. Long, vertical, tinted windows with green outlines punctuate the two-acre structure’s grey and white facade–all in the service of keeping its tenants cool inside. Its tenants aren’t people, but giant servers, storage drives and networking equipment.

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