Stephen Council: #California residents dubbed ‘uninformed mob’ win triple victory in data center fight
The Monterey Park City Council is bringing a multipronged approach to blocking data center development in its Los Angeles suburb

#MontereyPark #LosAngeles #ai #datacenters #resistance
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/monterey-park-data-center-21958037.php

National origin discrimination includes unfair treatment based on accent, ethnicity, ancestry, or cultural identity.

Under California FEHA, Monterey Park employees are protected from harassment, unequal job assignments, and retaliation for reporting discrimination.

Know your rights and document everything.

#NationalOriginDiscrimination #MontereyPark #CaliforniaFEHA #EmploymentLaw #WorkplaceRights #AntiDiscrimination

Claire Wang: Rage against the machine: a #California community rallied against a datacenter – and won. Organizers in Monterey Park took inspiration from other US cities to fight against the construction of a giant datacenter

#datacenters #MontereyPark #AI #climatechange #resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/california-monterey-park-stop-datacenter-construction

believe in your local power 💪🤩👍

LAist: How #MontereyPark residents pushed back on a #dataCenter – and changed the course

#LosAngelesCounty #activism

https://laist.com/news/politics/how-monterey-park-residents-pushed-back-on-a-data-center-and-changed-the-conversation

LA Public Press: A #dataCenter boom is coming to the #SanGabrielValley. Residents had no idea 

#LosAngelesCounty residents are being blindsided by proposals that may drain massive amounts of electricity and water. In #MontereyPark, a single facility would use more power than the entire city.

https://lapublicpress.org/2026/01/a-data-center-boom-is-coming-to-the-san-gabriel-valley-residents-had-no-idea/

Me: I don’t like brunch food

Also me: I love HK ‘western’ brunch food (it’s its own genre of food)

(Chicken chop with two eggs, and a bolo bun and milk tea)

I think my main opposition is having eggs without soy sauce, so next time I go to ‘brunch’ I will bring some and see if I like it more

This is J J cafe in Monterey Park, California. Perhaps the Flushing of California (but you need a car)

#Food #California #montereypark

I had fun watching this video about the 'suburban Chinatown' of Monterey Park, California.

The "Los Angeles"ness of it is very intriguing (I suppose that's my pleb way of expressing 'sense of place.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RDFTEahmI

#California #Chinatown #LosAngeles #MontereyPark