Pins matching date:2025-12-01

Tobyhanna Township supervisors approved a zoning overlay allowing a data center on a 520-acre area called Glacial Till/Tarheel Quarry. This land is currently zoned rural residential and located near the Lehigh River, conservation areas, and wetlands. The ordinance permits data centers while imposing requirements such as large setbacks, minimum acreage, a closed-loop water system, noise limits of 70 decibels, and additional regulatory approvals. The overlay was adopted to meet zoning obligations and avoid legal challenges, despite resident concerns.

Vantage Data Centers' Lighthouse campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin, is the Stargate site for Oracle and OpenAI: four data center buildings on 672 acres with about 902 MW of critical IT load. The Common Council approved the development agreement in August 2025, groundbreaking followed in December 2025 and satellite imagery shows Buildings 1 and 2 roughly halfway roofed by July 2026. Vantage targets a 2028 opening, but a grid interconnection that needs a new Wisconsin PSC approval may push full load into mid-2028 or later.

CDE Acquisitions LLC is proposing a 3-building, 1.5-million-square-foot data center campus on ~410 acres of undeveloped industrial-zoned land across the street from Parkland High School. Each building is about 492,285 square feet in size. The project is currently under review with multiple agencies, including PPL, PA Department of Environmental Protection, PA Department of Transportation, and the Lehigh County Authority.

Mele Brothers Realty has expressed interest in using their ~750 acres of commerically-zoned land off Rt 903 and Maury Rd for data center development. As of early March 2026, no applications have been filed, and Penn Forest Township supervisors have approved a zoning ordinance for data centers, requiring developers to meet specific noise, height, setback, etc. conditions to receive project approval.