PPL Electric Utilities scheduled a new time and venue for an informational open house on an Archbald-centric infrastructure project connecting multiple proposed data centers with new high-voltage power lines, switchyards and a substation.

The utility company will hold an open house on its “Archbald Mountain Transmission Project” and coinciding “Callender Gap & Sturges Transmission Project” on April 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Montdale Country Club, 195 Country Club Road in Scott Twp., according to a new PPL website dedicated to the projects. PPL originally scheduled the meeting for March 31 at the Throop Civic Center, but the utility announced on March 27 that it had to reschedule it due to circumstances outside of its control.

PPL will now host the session at the Montdale Country Club due to a venue-side conflict at the Throop Civic Center, utility spokeswoman Dana Burns said in an email. Aside from the venue, nothing else has changed, she said.

“We look forward to meeting with the community, sharing information and gathering feedback,” Burns said.

The two projects are primarily confined to Archbald with new infrastructure proposed for the mountains on the east and west sides of the borough, corresponding with at least four of the town’s six proposed data center campuses. Power lines will also extend through parts of Blakely, Jessup, Jefferson Twp. and Olyphant, according to PPL. Work will consist of building 12 miles of new power lines, three switchyards and a substation.

“We’re supporting load growth, strengthening reliability, and building new customer facilities in Lackawanna County,” the utility said on its pplarchbaldmountainproject.com website.

PPL tentatively plans to begin construction in summer 2027, spending three years on the project with an anticipated summer 2030 completion date.

Although neither the website nor any attached documents directly reference data centers, all five customer facilities denoted on project maps correspond with proposed data center campuses.

The planned upgrades list customer facilities coinciding with the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus, Project Gravity and Project Scott in Archbald, as well as a Project Triboro in Olyphant — a proposed warehousing park that is pivoting to data centers. Although PPL does not include Project Green Mountain in Archbald as a customer facility, it proposes to build a switchyard and substation near the campus. Project Green Mountain’s plans include a PPL switchyard.

On the west side of Archbald, the Callender Gap and Sturges project proposes to build two switchyards and about 4 miles of new 230-kilovolt power lines extending from PPL’s Lackawanna Substation in Blakely near the Archbald border and following existing lines above Business Route 6 into Archbald’s Sturges and Eynon sections. The project would extend transmission lines 1 mile from the Lackawanna Substation to a proposed 230-kV Sturges Switchyard. Additional 230-kV lines would then extend to nearby customer facilities, according to PPL.

The customer facilities align with the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus.

From there, the lines would stretch about 3 miles following the existing lines above Business Route 6 en route to a new Callender Gap Switchyard just east of Business Route 6 where the power lines currently cross the road. Two customer facilities on PPL’s site map connecting to the switchyard on either side correspond with the proposed Project Scott and Project Gravity data center campuses.

The Archbald Mountain portion of the project taps into the new Callender Gap Switchyard with a new 230-kV line extending about 4 miles southeast following existing lines between Project Scott and Project Gravity, continuing to a newly proposed Archbald Mountain Substation east of the Casey Highway and south of Aylesworth Park, according to PPL maps and accompanying documents.

PPL would also build a new Winton Switchyard about 1 mile south of the Archbald Mountain Substation; the substation and switchyard are above and below the proposed site of Project Green Mountain’s data centers.

After the Winton Switchyard, new power lines will extend about 3 miles south to a customer facility near Moosic Lake Road, according to PPL.

PPL’s map includes a customer facility near the intersection of Moosic Lake Road and Marshwood Road. Plans depict multiple possible transmission routes for the new power lines, each ending in a large parcel of land flanked by the Casey Highway, Marshwood Road and Moosic Lake Road, which corresponds to another proposed data center campus in Olyphant known as Project Triboro.

The open house does not have an agenda or formal presentations. Instead, PPL plans to have a project team available to provide information and answer questions. The utility said it will use the open house to gather feedback from the community before finalizing project plans.

To share feedback or ask questions about the project, email EUArchbaldMountainProject@pplweb.com.