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<\/p>\nData center developers are facing pushback at the municipal level across Pennsylvania, but one local government in Luzerne County is singing a different tune.<\/p>\n
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Salem Township, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
The Salem Township Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to nearly triple its data center overlay district to almost 5,000 acres. The move was hailed in a press release by 4-3 Glennbrook Group, which has assembled 194 families that own land in the district. <\/p>\n
The group now plans to secure the remaining required approvals for a data center development called the Salem 3 Campus, and it is looking to sell the land for $1.4B to a developer. <\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s vote came after 4-3 Glennbrook Group sold the neighboring Salem 2 land assembly<\/a> to Blackstone\u2019s QTS Data Centers<\/a> for $586M this spring.<\/p>\n This week’s meeting on the Salem 3 site was dominated by supporters of the project, many of whom wore matching orange shirts emblazoned with the slogan \u201cData Center Yes!,\u201d the Times Leader reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The landowner group has proposed a $43M community benefits agreement including $12M for the construction of a microhospital. The township has had limited access to medical care<\/a> since the Berwick Hospital Center closed in 2022.<\/p>\n “These families made a big decision about their land, and they made it with their kids and grandkids in mind,” 4-3 Glennbrook Group principal Mike Cabell said in a statement<\/p>\n “Tonight’s vote shows that decision was worth it. They stuck with this through every meeting and every question, and we’re going to get this done for them in a way that benefits the community for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n Salem Township is home to a nuclear power plant, a natural gas generation facility and extensive electrical infrastructure, which make it a strong location for data center facilities, the press release said.<\/p>\n Data centers have increasingly become a political football in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Gov. Josh Shapiro initially threw his support<\/a> behind the industry, but he penned a restrictive executive order<\/a> in August. It requires operators<\/a> to pay for their own power and makes local approval a prerequisite to getting the state\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n The press release from 4-3 Glennbrook Group says the Salem 3 plan complies with the executive order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data center developers are facing pushback at the municipal level across Pennsylvania, but one local government in Luzerne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129202,110609,33,129203,28,30,29,129204],"class_list":["post-317105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-4-3-glennbrook-group","tag-blackstone","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-mike-cabell","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-qts-data-centers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317105","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=317105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}