Data Center Backlash Spreads: Community Outrage Kills Upstate NY Project on Abandoned Steel Plant
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-11
A widely shared thread notes the data center backlash has reached Western NY: a local Instagram Reels activist whipped up outrage against a proposed data center on an abandoned steel and coke plant site, killing the project.
The quoted commentary argues policy details will get hammered out, but until deeper cultural problems are addressed, the backlash will keep recreating itself — "if people are this angry at a building sitting and paying taxes on unused land, something fundamental has gone very wrong."
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