{"id":166904,"date":"2026-04-15T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:29:26","slug":"olyphant-passes-six-month-pause-on-data-center-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166904\/","title":{"rendered":"Olyphant passes six-month pause on data center development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olyphant Borough Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night, halting data center development for the next six months. <\/p>\n<p>OLYPHANT, Pa. \u2014 Data center development will be on pause for six months in one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Olyphant Borough Council&#8217;s meeting Tuesday night, they were set to vote on a zoning amendment that would restrict data centers to roughly 1,000 acres of industrial-zoned land near the Triboro Industrial Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, council members voted 4-3 to place a six-month moratorium on that zoning code.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 reached out to the borough council&#8217;s president, Jimmy Baldan, who voted against the moratorium. He&#8217;s concerned the six-month pause will leave the borough vulnerable with no existing data center limitations in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olyphant Borough Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night, halting data center development for the next six months. OLYPHANT, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-166904","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\/166904","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=166904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}