For the second time in a week, residents of Springdale and beyond took to Pittsburgh Street to protest plans for the construction of a data center where a coal-fired power plant once stood.
Around two dozen people carried signs and expressed thanks to drivers who honked their horns as they drove past them Saturday at what had been the entrance to the Cheswick Generating Station. It was more than double the number that had attended a rally Monday morning.
Allegheny DC Property Co. has proposed building a 565,000-square-foot hyperscale data center and a 200,000-square-foot mechanical cooling plant on the 47-acre site of the former power plant…