Pennsylvania index · last changed 13 September 2026
Pennsylvania data centers: what the public record shows.
Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Pennsylvania data centers.
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Map, listings and checked facts.
Start with 51 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.
Pennsylvania map
Reported locations in Pennsylvania
51 licensed rows · 44 source localities · 5 map targets
Browse 5 mapped areas as links
- Archbald area11 source localities · 15 licensed rowsArchbald, Clifton Township, Hazle Township, Jessup, Jessup / Olyphant, Kline Township, Muncy, Nesquehoning, Ransom Township, Salem Township, Washingtonville
- Pittsburgh area12 source localities · 14 licensed rowsAliquippa, Big Beaver, Boyers, Homer City, McKees Rocks, Pittsburgh, Powder Mills Data Center Campus, Shippingport, South Strabane Township, Springdale, Stowe Township, Upper Burrell Township
- Norristown area15 source localities · 16 licensed rowsAllen Township, Allentown, Breinigsville, Collegeville, Conshohocken, East Whiteland Township, Falls Township, King of Prussia, Limerick Township, Norristown, Philadelphia, South Whitehall Township, Spring City, Trexlertown, Upper Mount Bethel Township
- Carlisle area5 source localities · 5 licensed rowsCarlisle, Fairview Township, Lancaster, Peach Bottom Township, South Annville Township
- Karthaus Township1 licensed row · approximate
Map sources and method
The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record.
Browse all 51 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.
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source-reported proposedPlanned 3,500 MWSource updated 12 September 2026approximate locationView facility →
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source-reported proposedPlanned 496 MWSource updated 10 September 2026approximate locationView facility →
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Pennsylvania evidence at a glance
A few checked sites
Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.
- Published project / campus
- 1
- Published facility / building
- 0
- Attributed or unresolved rows
- 0
- Licensed directory leads
- 51 not independently verified
- Capacity boundary stated
- 0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
- Review timing
- Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 12 March 2027
The Revenue reports name entities but no addresses, municipalities or counties, so most certifications cannot be bound to a site.
Browse all 51 Pennsylvania licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →
Projects
1 project record. Names are as they appear on each record page.
| Amazon Falls Township Data Center Project | approvedproject · land-development approval only | UnknownNo independently supported figureThe opened Township record publishes no critical-IT, facility-load, utility-service, utility-request, generation or measured-load MW. | Amazon to Open Data Center at NorthPoint Development in Falls →Gov. record |
Where the records were checked
Statewide audit pending
A few checked sites
This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.
Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.
State research audit window ended 12 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.
Next scheduled review: 12 March 2027.
1 independently source-linked project/campus record; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.
Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps
These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.
- economic development incentives — Checked
- The Revenue reports name entities but no addresses, municipalities or counties, so most certifications cannot be bound to a site.
- Certification-year reports before 2023 were not retrieved.
- No DCED or county economic development award record was opened; the DCED data center planning toolkit was seen only in search results.
- No list of projects previously in the PA Permit Fast Track Program was located.
Selected records
- Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2023 · Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
- Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2024 · Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
- Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2025 · Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
- utility commission large load — Partly checked
- The PA PUC order, docket and party comments were never read (two timeouts and one connection refusal).
- No PJM large-load or interconnection record was retrieved.
- The FERC proceedings over the Talen and Amazon Susquehanna interconnection service agreement were not retrieved from FERC itself.
- No electric distribution company large-load tariff filing was opened.
Selected records
- Interconnection and Tariffs for Large Load Customers, Docket No. M-2025-3054271 - Final Order · Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- PA PUC docket M-2025-3054271 case file (Interconnection and Tariffs for Large Load Customers) · Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- environmental construction permits — Partly checked
- The full 32-00457A plan approval PDF did not respond during review after 120 seconds, so emission unit and turbine details were not read.
- No PA Bulletin air quality or NPDES notice was searched; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before that family could be worked.
- DEP eFACTS was not queried for any other data center site.
- No municipal building or grading permit was retrieved for any research lead.
Selected records
- Homer City Generation Site Redevelopment - permits and authorizations · Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Northwest Regional Office
- PA DEP Air Quality Plan Approval 32-00457A - Homer City Generation LP (final plan approval PDF) · Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- municipal planning assessor gis — Checked
- Only one county assessor system was queried; no other Pennsylvania county GIS was used.
- No township or borough zoning hearing board decision was retrieved, including the Upper Macungie, Jessup and East Vincent denials which are known only from reporting.
- Municipal files for Carlisle, Middlesex Township, East Whiteland, Limerick, Upper Merion, Archbald, Hazle Township, Salem Township and Muncy Township were not reached.
Selected records
- Falls Township news: NorthPoint Development at Keystone Trade Center land development plan approvals · Falls Township, Bucks County
- Lawrence County Tax Parcel CAMA map service - parcel query for control number 26132000 · Lawrence County GIS / Assessor
- tax abatement development agreements — Partly checked
- Only the City's summary was read; the full community benefits agreement was not retrieved.
- No LERTA, TIF, KOZ or county development agreement was opened for any other Pennsylvania project.
- The Clifton Township settlement agreement with 1778 Rich Pike LLC is known only from reporting.
Selected records
- Community Benefits Agreement Summary - Lancaster AI Hub · City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- operator disclosures — Partly checked
- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Pennsylvania sites, even though Oracle and Amazon entities appear in the state certification reports.
- Flexential, TierPoint, Netrality, Iron Mountain, Expedient, Sentinel, Switch, PowerHouse and TECfusions operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.
- the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before operator pages could be located by search.
Selected records
- open datasets directories — Checked
- Thirty-one Compute Atlas Pennsylvania records were read but not worked into research leads, including the Lackawanna County cluster entries Project Gravity and Triboro Industrial Park, the Upper Merion Renaissance Park applications, Switch Big Beaver, Aligned's Shippingport site and several operating colocation facilities.
- No commercial directory was used.
Selected records
- Compute Atlas state extract for Pennsylvania (snapshot 71df145) · Compute Atlas
- historical closures withdrawals names — Checked
- No municipal written decision, appeal filing or withdrawal letter was retrieved for any of these reversals.
- Both Pennhurst articles could not be retrieved during review.
- Older Pennsylvania data center closures, demolitions and renames were not searched at all.
Selected records
- Air Products abandons plan for data center at former Upper Macungie headquarters · Lehigh Valley Public Media
- Future of Ransom Twp. property uncertain as Carbon County developer says no plans for data center campus · WVIA
- Jessup denies Breaker Street data center · The Times-Tribune (via Yahoo News)
- news and other discovery — Partly checked
- the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep partway through Pennsylvania, so the remaining families were worked only from URLs already in hand.
- No advocacy or research tracker was opened.
Selected records