New Jersey city spurns data center as defiance spreads
Source: Yahoo News
Published on: 2026-04-10 02:29
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of a New Jersey city mobilized within days to kill a planned data center -- and now activists nationwide want to know how they did it. Grassroots resistance to these computing fortresses is spreading across the United States, even as Big Tech pours hundreds of billions of dollars a year into AI infrastructure, pushing new projects into communities from coast to coast. Forty miles (65 kilometers) from the New York skyline, rubble still litters a vacant lot in New Brunswick -- bordered by a railway line on one side and homes on the other. This former automotive plant was where Amzak Capital Management had planned to build its complex. For now, it remains empty -- a trophy, activists say, for a community that fought back. Residents learned of the project just nine days before a scheduled city council vote i...
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