A five-story industrial building, top, on East Vernon Avenue is being demolished for redevelopment as a data center across the street from Vernon City Elementary School, at bottom in Vernon, California on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026.

Even this business-friendly California city is souring against data centers LOS ANGELES -- There is only one place new data centers are being built in the greater Los Angeles area: the city of Vernon. Just south of downtown L.A., it’s a city made up almost exclusively of companies. About 50,000 people commute every day into Vernon to work, but only about 300 actually live there, and the city government is famous for its friendliness to heavy industry. Numerous ...

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