Archbald Borough

Archbald Borough Council denied zoning for a hyperscale data center in the Lackawanna County borough. Community members who attended Wednesday’s council meeting erupted into applause and cheers after the rejection.

Archbald Borough Council unanimously rejected a zoning request to construct the 14-building Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus on 578 acres in the borough. The campus now faces a hurdle in the project.

Today, meet a husband and wife coaching duo on the soccer field in the latest Beyond the Scoreboard. And the Archbald community learned more about a proposed data center campus this week - but many residents remain skeptical.

Corscale, the company behind data center campus, provided information and experts to answer residents' questions.

University of Scranton campus group Christians for the Common Good held a bus tour around some of the land being prepared for data center construction and met with local residents opposed to the development.

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.

The final conditional use hearing for the proposed Wildcat Ridge Data Center campus in Archbald was Wednesday. Council will decide in 45 days if the project meets borough zoning regulations.

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday imposing his standards for regulating data centers, despite the lack of a law to back them up.

The developer of the proposed Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus argued Tuesday that six out of seven Archbald Borough Council members are biased and should not participate in a zoning law determination.