Rachel Gonzalez did not foresee becoming an opposition leader to what could be the largest economic development project in the history of Independence, Missouri.
She is a lifelong resident, living just a few miles from a proposed hyperscale data center site. She knows and voted for several of the council members who will decide whether to give tax abatements to the project — a vote that may ultimately decide the fate of the “AI factory.”
When she first heard about the data center late last year, she assumed the more she learned, the better she would feel about it…