{"id":239089,"date":"2026-07-09T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239089\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:02:30","slug":"read-the-report-wildcat-ridge-data-centers-pollution-and-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239089\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the report: Wildcat Ridge data centers&#8217; pollution and health risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing Monday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/2026\/07\/07\/stop-archbald-data-centers-makes-case-against-proposed-wildcat-ridge-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">proposed Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus<\/a> in Archbald included testimony from an environmental scientist. Michael Cork, Ph.D., spoke about the impact of the campus\u2019s 588 backup diesel generators on public health. He also compiled a 40-page report that models potential pollution and health impacts from Wildcat Ridge. You can read the full report below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hearing Monday on the proposed Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus in Archbald included testimony from an environmental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,2116,1131,1057,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-239089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-data-centers","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239089","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=239089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}