Wow, what a bunch of double talking assholes.

"KATV reached out to Google asking why the meeting was private, who was involved, and how invitations were determined.

In a statement, the company said:

“Today’s meeting focused on hearing directly from the immediate community. Our goal was to ensure varying neighborhood perspectives were at the table. This is just one conversation out of many. We remain committed to keeping this process open and transparent.”

Google allowed KATV into a separate meeting for about five minutes, but cameras were not permitted inside. Several questions about the process and attendee selection went unanswered."

I saw some other company did this same thing in Iowa. They hold these public meetings at private facilities so that they can police who is and isnt allowed to attend. In the Iowa case they told all reporters (I believe it was A More Perfect Union that was covering this) that they weren’t allowed in the building, which caused a scene when residents found out, which lead to them abruptly canceling the meeting early and the datacenter people blaming it on reporters being in the vicinity. I believe in this case they also had the city council sign NDAs so that they couldn’t talk about it either, which doesnt seem like something that should be legal (if it even is).