{"id":317491,"date":"2026-10-30T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:20:20","slug":"4500-acre-data-center-district-approved-in-pennsylvania-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317491\/","title":{"rendered":"4,500-Acre Data Center District Approved In Pennsylvania Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story<\/a> was originally published on Bisnow, the newsroom global commercial real estate reads first. To receive daily news and analysis, subscribe to Bisnow’s free suite of newsletters<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Data 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

\"Scenic<\/a> Salem Township, Pennsylvania – Credit: Wikimedia\/Jakec <\/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’s vote came after 4-3 Glennbrook Group sold the neighboring Salem 2 land assembly<\/a> to Blackstone’s QTS Data Centers 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 “Data Center Yes!,” 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.” <\/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’s 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":"This story was originally published on Bisnow, the newsroom global commercial real estate reads first. To receive daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125981,60,26943,61,2265,40186,8128,125982,3777,31858,12452,125983,28,30,29,12449,105122,1081,7174,34958,45357,45358,88052,125984,2261,125985],"class_list":["post-317491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317491","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=317491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}