Deep dive: Scouring 84 million pages of Santa Clara County property records for historic discrimination
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/11/28/deep-dive-scouring-84-million-pages-of-santa-clara-county-property-records-for-historic-discrimination/
If you gathered every property record amassed by Santa Clara County since its incorporation in 1850 and stacked them on top of each other, the pile would soar to the height of Mount Everest. It could wrap around Apple’s spaceship-like headquarters roughly five times – or run parallel to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport’s runways back-and-forth three times.
You get the picture – it’s a lot of paper.