{"id":233228,"date":"2026-07-01T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:06:06","slug":"lackawanna-county-housing-authority-seeks-to-join-lawsuit-against-archbald-data-center-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233228\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Housing Authority seeks to join lawsuit against Archbald data center proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lackawanna County Housing Authority asked a judge to allow it to join a lawsuit to stop a data center proposal adjacent to an authority development<\/p>\n<p>ARCHBALD, Pa. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> wants to enter the fight against data centers in Archbald.<\/p>\n<p>Six data center campuses, including dozens of buildings, are proposed in Archbald. One of those proposed campuses borders a Lackawanna County Housing Authority complex on Gibson Street in the borough.<\/p>\n<p>The housing authority last week wants a judge to allow them to step into an ongoing lawsuit brought by an Archbald resident that seeks to uphold borough council&#8217;s decision to reject a data center developer&#8217;s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The housing authority said that it has legal standing in the lawsuit because the proposed data center campus could impact the residents&#8217; quality of life by increasing noise, traffic, lighting and demand on the water and sewer utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan, who has advocated for the county to use its resources to push back against data centers, applauded the move from the housing authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really has no business being in the spot where they want to put it,&#8221; Gaughan said. &#8220;So, I&#8217;m thrilled that the housing authority has joined in the legal fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A judge has not yet ruled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Housing Authority asked a judge to allow it to join a lawsuit to stop a data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-233228","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\/233228","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=233228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}