Kenilworth Residents Demand CoreWeave Data Center Project Be Shut Down Over Israel and Climate Concerns
October 10, 2026
“SHUT THIS PROJECT DOWN NOW.”
Kenilworth, New Jersey — population 8,500 — found out their own Planning Board had approved an $1.8 billion CoreWeave AI data center with zero public input.
No vote on whether residents even wanted it. Just an 8-0 approval, discovered after the fact.
At a packed town hall, resident Katie Ireland confronted the council directly not just over water strain, energy demand, and noise, but over what she said were the project’s corporate ties to Israeli tech infrastructure, raised in the same breath as the ongoing bombardment of Gaza.
According to Status Coup’s reporting, the council left the room shortly after she raised it.
Whatever you make of that specific claim, the throughline is clear: a tiny town got handed a billion-dollar project it never approved, and residents are done being told to just accept it.
What a brave girl. SUPPORT HER.
Source: statuscoup
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