Residents and advocates line the sidewalk Tuesday outside Albany’s Department of Planning and Development. They cheer passing cars that honk in support of their cause: protesting proposals to build a data center in the city’s South End.
The planning board did not discuss the data center proposal this night, but opposition to the possibility has been steadily increasing, especially after the Times Union last month reported on the possibility of a data center coming to town.
Ian Cummins, an Albany resident, says he attended the protest because of the direct impact he believes the center would have on him and the city…