Granville Data Center: Data Center Campus in Mifflin County

• Location & Status: Granville Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (proposed).^[1]

Site and proposal

• PA Data Center Partners, through its subsidiary Lewistown Development, LLC, proposes a six-building, 1.54 million-square-foot data center complex covering about 245.5 acres on two parcels on either side of the Mifflin County Industrial Park off Loop Road in Granville Township.^[4]
• The site is farmland that serves as a buffer between homes along the Juniata River and the industrial park; renderings show six buildings abutting the industrial park with buffers on the neighborhood side.^[8]
• The developers' 16-page presentation (PA Data Center Partners with PowerHouse Data Centers) claims $22.5 million a year in tax revenue, about 150 permanent jobs and 130-230 construction jobs, but gives no electrical load, water use, project cost, construction timeline or incentive request.^[9]

Approvals, appeal and opposition

• Developers filed the land development plan on Friday, July 10, 2026, two days before supervisors planned to invoke a curative amendment; officials say the township's new data center ordinance cannot be applied to the pending plan because of that timing.^[5][7]
• The township rejected the application as incomplete, citing a missing traffic-study certification, and told the developer to file again; the developer instead appealed to the Zoning Hearing Board in September 2026.^[4][6]
• The Zoning Hearing Board heard the appeal on Oct. 26, 2026 before about 150 residents; parties will file legal briefs and the board is expected to reconvene in January to decide. The dispute concerns whether the rejection was proper, not the merits of a data center.^[2]
• Opposition is large: nearly 200 residents at the June meeting, about 100 at the July emergency meeting, and a petition against the project that passed 1,400 signatures in late May.^[6][7][9]

Timeline and cost

• No construction timeline, completion target or project cost is published; the presentation omitted them, and no groundbreaking has occurred because the application is still contested.^[9]