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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Hazelnut.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- NorthPoint Development (NP Hazleton Holdings 1 LLC)
- Address and locality
- Hazle Township · Luzerne County · Pennsylvania
- Official metro area
- Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001161
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- PPL Electric
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 1,283 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2024
Provider notes
Water. At a February 2026 DEP hearing the developer described a maximum of 2.8 million gallons of treated wastewater from the Greater Hazleton Joint Sewer Authority, with domestic water supplied via CAN DO, which serves the Humboldt industrial parks; the campus's water usage was said to be able to reduce Black Creek by 5.5%. The source does not state an averaging period for the 2.8 million gallon figure, so no reportedMgd rate is recorded here.
Community. Hazle Township denied NorthPoint's land development application; NorthPoint is appealing in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas and created a $30M fund to offset potential short-term utility rate increases for residents during the appeal. Separately, NorthPoint committed to a $165M Community Benefit Fund: $45M Direct Resident Grant Fund ($10,000 grants to eligible households), $15M Community Support Fund (education/workforce training/arts/recreation/youth), and a $105M long-term commitment ($7M/year for 15 years) toward a new local police department and reduced trash fees. …
What the source record says
Site: Humboldt North Industrial Park, Hazle Township, Luzerne County PA (within a larger ~3,000-acre industrial park); a few miles from Amazon's nuclear-adjacent data center campus (acquired from Talen Energy) - proximity only, AWS is NOT a confirmed tenant/operator for Project Hazelnut; NorthPoint's own project site names no end-tenant, describing this as a speculative build. Phased: Phase 1 (5 buildings) to begin Q4 2026, Phase 2 (3 buildings) Q1 2028, Phase 3 (7 buildings) Q2 2029. Developer projects ~900-1,300 construction jobs and ~900-950 permanent jobs ($50K-$158K salary range) - not yet delivered, so omitted from the jobs field; similarly $13.47M in projected county tax revenue over 20 years is a projection, not a subsidy. First surfaced publicly in connection with PA's Permit Fast Track Program (Executive Order 2024-04). NorthPoint's own site explicitly frames this as a general 'data center campus' supporting 'cloud platforms, digital payments, streaming, and healthcare systems' - no AI-specific language found; classified 'mixed_use' given hyperscale-tier campus scale makes AI workloads plausible even absent explicit branding.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · source-reported proposed
Hazle Township denied NorthPoint's land development application for the 15-building, ~1,283-acre campus; NorthPoint appealed in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas and created a $30M fund to offset potential resident utility-rate impacts during the appeal.
- 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Hazle Township passed a 6-month moratorium/curative amendment pausing data center development.
Sources and attribution
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- Northpoint proposes 15-building, 1,280-acre data center campus in Pennsylvania · Data Center Dynamics
- Hazle Township, PA Pauses Data Center Development for Six Months · Food & Water Watch
- Hazle Township data center developer announces community development package · The Sunday Dispatch
- Project Hazelnut (Hazle Twp - Denied, On Appeal) · PoweredByWho
- Project Hazelnut - official project site · NorthPoint Development
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Residents raise questions as developer describes Hazle Twp. data center plans at DEP hearing · WVIA
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID project-hazelnut-hazle-township-pa. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001161
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Hazle Township, PA · Luzerne (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: NorthPoint Development (NP Hazleton Holdings 1 LLC)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,283 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: PPL Electric
Utility as named by the provider.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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