draft<\/a> available on the county website.<\/p>\nIt lays out guidelines for minimizing water and energy consumption, visual impacts, as well as noise and light disturbances on adjoining properties.<\/p>\n
According to Corie \u201cconsultants have been coming around\u201d and presenting property owners with something called \u201clisting agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey aren’t sales agreements at this point, but they’re asking residents, \u2018Would you sign a listing agreement?\u2019 And then they will collectively take those, map out an area that they feel a data center might be interested in, and then come back to the property owners who have listed with them and potentially offer them a price if they were willing to sell their properties,\u201d Corie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do live in the neighborhood- they\u2019re right now proposing to take the whole interior of Echo Beach Road, and that is a significant number of properties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some larger landowners have agreed to list their properties and she said that impacts the other properties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of smaller landowners, although they don’t want to sell, they’re afraid of what the impact is going to be if they remain,\u201d said Corie.<\/p>\n
Currently, there are no formal applications for data centers in the county, according to Duane Naugle, director of community planning, grants and mapping.<\/p>\n
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(l-r) Bradford County, Pa. commissioners Republicans Doug McLinko and Daryl Miller listen as Democrat Zachary Gates addresses residents about data centers during a board meeting on July 9.<\/p>\n
However, he said there are two places with properties that might be suitable for a data center.<\/p>\n
Wysox Township has a possible 200-acre area for such construction. The area extends from Shiner Drive to the Susquehanna River and from Craftmaster Road east to the river in the west.<\/p>\n
In Asylum Township, where Corie lives, the area for possible data center construction could encompass up to 400 acres of land. The area encompasses Route 87 to the Susquehanna River and from the intersection of Echo Beach Road and 187 North to the Panda Liberty power plant.<\/p>\n
Bradford County Commissioner, Republican Daryl Miller said data centers are \u201cno different\u201d than other industrial or manufacturing development.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s the one way you grow as a community, as a county, is to have economic development, job creation, and a lot of other things that come with it, because it’s not just- hypothetically, let’s say, a data center- it’s not just the data center itself, but it’s all the other ancillary businesses that may come along with it.\u201c<\/p>\n
Miller said there would be jobs in construction, HVAC, electronic services and facilities operations with a data center build but how many is unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe inability for us to speak directly to what may or may not show up, we’re at a loss at that right now, because we don’t know what type of data center is going to show up if one shows up,\u201d said Miller. \u201cSo, there may be half a dozen, [a] dozen, two dozen, three dozen jobs [that] come with a data center, but we don’t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller also does not support tax breaks for data centers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not interested in giving any kind of tax abatements to anything, because number one, we’re going to lose some tax revenue in the initial stages of it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, we need to be sure that we’re treating our citizens, the rest of our communities fairly, and that they’re not overburdened with the disruption in the tax revenue coming to the county.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Gov. Josh Shapiro introduced<\/a> developer accountability standards for building data centers including energy affordability, transparency and community engagement, environmental protections, and workforce and economic growth.<\/p>\nSome of the commonwealth\u2019s data center compliance requires job creation, municipal cooperation, public meetings, mechanisms for emissions reduction and to meet its energy demands by providing its energy supply and paying for that supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford County, Pennsylvania amended its land use regulations to include a framework for any proposed data centers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255762","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=255762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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