Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania residents challenge Archbald data center over environmental, economic impacts

Pennsylvania residents challenge Archbald data center over environmental, economic impacts

Melissa Palmer
March 11, 2026

Developers are pushing a massive Wildcat Ridge data center campus in Archbald: 14 buildings at 200k+ square feet each, 560...

Pennsylvania township residents challenge massive AI data center power demands

Pennsylvania township residents challenge massive AI data center power demands

Melissa Palmer
March 10, 2026

Residents in East Whiteland Township are pushing back hard on a 1.7M sq ft data center expansion at a former...

Pennsylvania ties faster data center permits to stricter environmental standards

Pennsylvania ties faster data center permits to stricter environmental standards

Melissa Palmer
March 9, 2026

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is pushing a carrot approach: faster permits for data centers that meet tougher environmental and transparency...

Pennsylvania township confronts large AI data center plan, residents worried

Pennsylvania township confronts large AI data center plan, residents worried

Melissa Palmer
March 6, 2026

Upper Burrell is facing a 3 GW TECfusions data center build on a former Alcoa R&D campus, and residents are...

Pennsylvania township approves $15B data center campus, limits expansion

Pennsylvania township approves $15B data center campus, limits expansion

Melissa Palmer
March 5, 2026

A $15 billion, 700-acre data center campus in Middlesex Township, PA just cleared a key hurdle with approval of an...

Pennsylvania House panel advances bills regulating AI data center growth

Pennsylvania House panel advances bills regulating AI data center growth

Melissa Palmer
March 3, 2026

Pennsylvania lawmakers are moving two bills that directly target how fast AI data centers can scale in the state. House...

Lenders hesitate on financing Lancaster, Pennsylvania AI data center project

Lenders hesitate on financing Lancaster, Pennsylvania AI data center project

Melissa Palmer
February 24, 2026

Lancaster’s planned CoreWeave data centers are a $10 billion build, with $4 billion from a Blue Owl joint venture and...

Pennsylvania township debates rezoning farmland for proposed data center project

Pennsylvania township debates rezoning farmland for proposed data center project

Melissa Palmer
February 23, 2026

Lower Mount Bethel Township is wrestling with a proposed data center that would require rezoning agricultural land, with no formal...

Settlement fight over data center leaves local Pennsylvania zoning authority in limbo

Settlement fight over data center leaves local Pennsylvania zoning authority in limbo

Melissa Palmer
January 28, 2026

A Doylestown developer plans a large-scale data center across seven properties in Clifton and Covington townships, but the core fight...

Pennsylvania Cooling water discharge request shows how data centers strain rivers

Pennsylvania Cooling water discharge request shows how data centers strain rivers

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Amazon Data Services wants state approval to discharge used cooling water from its Luzerne County data center into the Susquehanna...

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