Data center opponents push back at Blakely meeting
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BLAKELY — A developer pitched the potential benefits of data centers to a defiant crowd of Blakely residents Wednesday night, receiving significant pushback against a proposal to rezone residential land off Business Route 6 and Terrace Drive to allow for the construction of four data centers.About 100 residents packed the Blakely Borough Building’s council chambers — with around 60 more waiting outside and 210-plus watching online via Zoom — for a question-and-answer session with Jim Marzolino, the developer behind three Midvalley data center proposals. Although he did not speak during the meeting, Marzolino’s co-developer on the project, Alpesh “Al” Patel of the Dunmore-based Al’s Quick Stop convenience store chain, attended the session, accompanied by former state Sen. Robert Mellow. Marzolino,…
