East Fishkill passes 3-year data center freeze

“We can’t drink data! We can’t drink data,” chanted organizers outside the East Fishkill Town Hall Thursday.

Hours later, the Town Board unanimously voted to adopt a three-year freeze on data centers.

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“It will use up and pollute our drinkable water sources, which I don’t know if you know, but we literally need to survive,” said Rosemary DaCruz from For The Many before the meeting. “You know what we don’t need to survive? A 1,000-megawatt data center. We can’t allow it.”

Organizers with Food and Water Watch and For The Many spoke before the Town Board meeting. DaCruz said residents in the Hudson Valley are already struggling to pay their electricity bills and data centers would only add to the burden.