{"id":134865,"date":"2026-03-10T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:25:08","slug":"are-data-centers-on-the-agenda-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134865\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Data Centers on the agenda, or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmkrg4vh000e01wga34b1j7a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The City of Scranton issued a public notice on Saturday announcing the city\u2019s intent to regulate data centers.\u00a0The public notice said that council, at its meeting set for this evening at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, will introduce an amendment to the city\u2019s 2023 zoning ordinance, \u201cto amend provisions relating to data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmkrgc64000t357xwnzlxu92@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The public notice also referenced an Exhibit A as part of the proposed ordinance detailing the zoning amendment, and that it would be available to be obtained or reviewed at City Hall.\u00a0But the agenda for the council meeting posted Monday morning on the city website does not contain any such data center ordinance.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmkrghfi0014357x88e7haja@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Municipalities must allow every lawful land use somewhere within their borders, including data centers.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmkrg8t7000i357x6fj5eye9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Archbald Borough Council will hold a hearing this afternoon beginning at 5pm at Valley View High School on the proposed Wildcat Ridge data center.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Scranton issued a public notice on Saturday announcing the city\u2019s intent to regulate data centers.\u00a0The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-134865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}