Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\nThe notice: A scam.<\/p>\n
“It will never happen,” Bensalem Township Council President Ed Tokmajian told Patch on Tuesday. “This was false information. There is no way that the Neshaminy Mall will become a data center.”<\/p>\n
Township officials said a notice was posted on social media from someone impersonating the Bensalem Township\u2019s Planning Commission about an approved data center submission. <\/p>\n
“This post is completely false,” township officials said. “The Township does not have any data center applications submitted or in review.”<\/p>\n
Tokmajian said the township is taking steps to ensure data centers never become part of Bensalem’s future.<\/p>\n
At its June 8 meeting, the Township Council approved a Curative Amendment that allows the township to suspend data centers and amend the zoning ordinance to regulate these facilities.<\/p>\n
The council president said that vote calls for a six-month moratorium, allowing Solicitor Joseph Pizzo to draft ordinances to protect the township.<\/p>\n
Governments in many municipalities in the Philadelphia region are scrambling to put together ordinances to protect themselves from data centers, which they say will be a major drain on their power and energy resources.<\/p>\n
In nearby Falls Township, residents have appeared at township supervisors’ meetings to protest plans for one of two proposed data centers in the state that are being pushed by Amazon.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think anyone anticipated this,” Tokmajian said. “We’re trying to get ahead of this in Bensalem.”<\/p>\n
As far as the fake post, the council president said that “someone is trying to drum up chaos that is not needed and unwarranted in Bensalem.”<\/p>\n
“The planning commission doesn’t even have a Facebook page,” he remarked.<\/p>\n
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