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By Brandon Pho. San José Spotlight.
About 40 homeless people are hiding out on a small plot of land adjacent to San Jose's busy Highway 237 in Microsoft Land.
The camp is around the same spot where Microsoft plans to build two data centers in San Jose near the Milpitas border. Unhoused residents said a Caltrans worker warned them of an impending raid. Officials at Caltrans, Santa Clara County and San Jose deny any such plan. However, someone has tipped off the camp and its residents are on edge.
“If we have to move in 60 days, 90 days, that’s fine, that’s what we’ll work with. But we want to be prepared,” said Ricky Robles, a 60-year-old homeless resident who has lived in the encampment for two years, San José Spotlight.