'Data Centers: Deal or Dilemma' is a three-day WVIA News series focused on data center developments in Northeast Pennsylvania and how they could affect area communities.
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Data Centers in Ransom Twp.
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The developer purchased over 500 acres of land in the township this month. -
Archbald-based Popca LLC plans to construct a two-building data center campus in Newton, but the project's backers are appealing a denial from the township's zoning officer. -
Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan addressed data centers during a commissioners meeting Wednesday; commissioners Chris Chermak and Thom Welby also weighed in. -
Ransom Twp. Supervisors met Thursday for a zoning hearing after Scranton Materials LLC filed an application for a data center zoning overlay on their Newton Road property. They denied the request after attorney Laura McGarry pointed out flaws in the hearing process and Scranton Materials LLC’s case seeking the change. -
Scranton Materials LLC requested a data center overlay for its property in Ransom Twp. Supervisors met Thursday for a zoning hearing on the change but had to move the meeting to next week after objections from the crowd over the need for more space.
Data Centers in the Pocono Region
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Clifton Twp. supervisors held a public meeting to get residents' input on a new ordinance to zone for the data center industry. -
Supervisors met at 7 p.m. on Friday, prompting questions and outrage from residents. -
Doylestown developer 1778 Rich Pike LLC says the Clifton Twp. zoning hearing board erred when backing up its zoning ordinance.
Data Centers in Archbald Borough
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Pennsylvania’s legislators return to the capitol Monday following a 10-week recess, with several unresolved issues awaiting action, including the future of skill games, regulation of data centers, rising utility costs and restrictions on cell phone use in schools. -
Representatives from Corscale, developer of the Project Gravity Data Center in Archbald, joined a Scranton panel discussion at which they said final land development plans will be submitted "imminently." -
Over 90 days, EmPower will study more than a dozen Lackawanna County proposed data center campuses and power plants.
