Just 65 kilometers outside the bright skyline of New York City, an overgrown vacant lot dotted with construction rubble sits quietly between a working railway line and a cluster of residential homes in New Brunswick, New Jersey. What was once slated to become a sprawling multi-building data center complex for Florida-based Amzak Capital Management, built on the grounds of a shuttered automotive plant, now stands as an unlikely symbol of grassroots people power — and a rallying cry for community resistance spreading across the United States.