Housing & Environmental Advocates Urge Montvale Mayor to Drop Data Center from Affordable Housing Plan

Housing & Environmental Advocates Urge Montvale Mayor to Drop Data Center from Affordable Housing Plan

At Tuesday’s Montvale Council meeting, residents and advocates spoke out against the borough’s proposal to develop a 322,822-square-foot hyperscale data center alongside new affordable housing units as part of its settlement with the S. Hekemian Group. Data centers are large industrial buildings that house computer servers. In the last few years there has been a surge of data center development across the US tied to the artificial intelligence a…