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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Marina Dunbar

‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM

people hold signs against a data center
Residents protest against a proposed datacenter in East Fishkill in June. Photograph: Food & Water Watch

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 fifty years.

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