The San Jose Fire Department Training Center holds drills Wednesday afternoon, July 12, 2017, in San Jose, California, in an area that may soon be transformed if city leaders choose the site for a new Google campus. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
SAN JOSE, California: Google will be travelling a razor's edge of love and hate all the way to its planned new 20,000-worker San Jose campus as it brings jobs and star power to a city that needs both while delivering extra helpings of the ills that have sparked public ire against Silicon Valley's big technology companies.
The potential downsides to Google's planned campus in the heart of downtown check all the boxes on the list of Bay Area horrors: escalating traffic, overburdened transit systems, skyrocketing housing costs, displacement of lower-income people.
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