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In late 2025, a proposal to build a large data center at the former Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill site along the Schuylkill River was set for a standard zoning hearing, with the developer seeking approval for a two-million-square-foot project. Residents and advocacy groups had come prepared to raise concerns, but the plans were abruptly withdrawn less than an hour into the hearing after it was revealed the developer lacked legal standing to apply, as its sale agreement for the property had not been finalized. Township officials expected the developer to refile, which would restart the hearing process the following year. \n As anticipated, in May 2026 the developer refiled an application to the zoning board detailing 10 buildings, some potentially with two floors, totaling approximately two million square feet of data center space, while the building footprints themselves would occupy, in total, roughly one million square feet.

MCD 7 LLC has applied to build Project Laurel, an eight-building data center campus on about 191 acres in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, near the Limerick Generating Station and the Philadelphia Premium Outlets. A 2024 feasibility study found 750 MW could be supplied, though PECO and PJM review is still required and the end user has not been named. Township planners recommended 18 conditions in April 2026 and the Board of Supervisors' conditional use hearing was continued to October 27. No construction has begun and no completion date or cost has been published.

MLP Ventures is proposing an 8-building data center campus along Renassiance Road. The developer, Brian O’Neill, is also connected to redevelopment proposal for the former Cleveland Cliffs steel plant in Plymouth Township, and several other proposals within Upper Merion Township. The application for 2100 Renaissance Boulevard proposes a 187,952-square-foot data center, while the applications for the other addresses propose a 1,923,866-square-foot data center campus.

Hanover development, L.P. filed an application for a 150,000-square-foot data center on a 37.476-acre tract of light industrial-zoned farmland off Gravel Pike, near Ziegler Road. \n This application arrived hours before the township passed an ordinance defining data center as a conditional use.