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Country Folk Vs. Silicon Valley: The Rural County Fighting Big Tech’s New City Project

A view on wind turbines in Rio Vista, Solano County.
Solano county is the most rural of the nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, with rolling pastures topped with wind turbines. Rio Vista City Hall/Google Maps

Tech’s biggest fortunes are funding a project to build a new city of 400,000 people just an hour outside of San Francisco. But the residents of the region’s most rural county are resisting.

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