Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland

Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland

Melissa Palmer
January 23, 2026

Data center developers offered a Pennsylvania farmer over $15 million, or about $60,000 per acre, to convert two contiguous farms...

Pennsylvania township tightens rules on future AI-ready data center sites

Pennsylvania township tightens rules on future AI-ready data center sites

Melissa Palmer
January 22, 2026

Lower Saucon Township is moving to regulate future data centers with a new zoning ordinance aimed at controlling where they...

Massive AI data center reshapes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania despite objections

Massive AI data center reshapes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania despite objections

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania just approved a 565,000-square-foot hyperscale data center on a former coal plant site that could draw as...

Balancing local jobs with environmental risks of proposed data center in Greene County, Pennsylvania

Balancing local jobs with environmental risks of proposed data center in Greene County, Pennsylvania

Melissa Palmer
January 16, 2026

Project Hummingbird proposes a hyperscale AI data center on 1,400 acres of a former coal mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania,...

Easton, Pennsylvania Data center rules now shapes AI-heavy development

Easton, Pennsylvania Data center rules now shapes AI-heavy development

Melissa Palmer
January 14, 2026

Easton is scrambling to catch zoning up to hyperscale data center proposals that bring big power, water, and environmental impacts....

Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Clifton Township is close to settling with the Project Gold developer, clearing the way for a massive data center campus...

AI data centers reshape Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania while utilities, rules lag behind

AI data centers reshape Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania while utilities, rules lag behind

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

Lehigh Valley is moving from scattered small data centers to true hyperscale, with two proposals totaling over 7.7 million square...

Central Pennsylvania backs major AI data center hub near Carlisle

Central Pennsylvania backs major AI data center hub near Carlisle

Melissa Palmer
December 23, 2025

Middlesex Township’s planners gave an initial green light to subdivide a 693-acre tract for “Pennsylvania Digital 1,” a three-campus data...

Tie AI data center subsidies to strict renewable and grid safeguards in pennsylvania

Tie AI data center subsidies to strict renewable and grid safeguards in pennsylvania

Melissa Palmer
December 7, 2025

Data centers driving AI are straining the PJM grid, raising real risks for higher power bills, reliability issues, and more...

AI data center replaces coal plant in Pennsylvania

AI data center replaces coal plant in Pennsylvania

Melissa Palmer
December 3, 2025

Allegheny DC Property Co. spent $14.3 million to acquire a former coal plant in Springdale, aiming to turn the 47-acre...