ace‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM
For decades, East Fishkill helped build New York’s tech industry. The hamlet, located 70 miles north of New York City, was home to a 460-acre campus where IBM researched and manufactured semiconductor chips for nearly 50 years. So when the news broke in early 2026 that a real estate developer, Treetop Companies, was exploring plans for what could become one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI) datacenters in the country, a roughly 1-gigawatt campus spanning more than 1m sq ft across about 143 acres, it se…
A proposed 1,000-megawatt AI datacenter in a town of about 30,000 led residents to fear higher electricity rates, strain on water and the grid, and few lasting jobs, which prompted a three-year local moratorium.
The project is only at an exploratory stage with no formal town application, and the moratorium is under legal challenge, so actual impacts on rates, water and jobs remain unmeasured.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-09
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