{"id":231933,"date":"2026-06-30T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:10:07","slug":"bill-allowing-municipalities-to-put-moratorium-on-data-center-development-applications-advances-in-pa-senate-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231933\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill allowing municipalities to put moratorium on data center development applications advances in Pa. Senate | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A local lawmaker\u2019s legislation allowing municipalities to place a moratorium on data center development applications has taken a step forward in the Pennsylvania Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.senatorcoleman.com\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.senatorcoleman.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sen. Jarrett Coleman\u2019s (R-16)<\/a>\u00a0bill advanced out of the Senate Local Government Committee Tuesday, according to a news release from Pennsylvania Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb1345\" title=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb1345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Senate Bill 1345<\/a>\u00a0would give municipalities the option of placing an 18-month moratorium on both unapproved and new data center applications so they can revise zoning ordinances and establish policies addressing issues like power supply, water consumption, noise and setbacks which they determine protect the community\u2019s interests, Senate Republicans said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear from my constituents almost every day about their concerns with data center projects,\u201d said Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy legislation empowers local communities to push the pause button on data centers in order to regulate these projects on their own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A local lawmaker\u2019s legislation allowing municipalities to place a moratorium on data center development applications&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100274,4517,100276,28,30,29,12534,100275],"class_list":["post-231933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-data-center-moratorium","tag-jarrett-coleman","tag-municipal-regulation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-senate","tag-senate-bill-1345"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231933","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=231933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}