Pennsylvania
Data centers in Lackawanna County
We track 2 projects inside Lackawanna County and 0 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Lackawanna County
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Clifton Township
A developer called 1778 Rich Pike LLC wants to build a data center campus, known locally as Project Gold, split across properties in Clifton and Covington townships along Route 380. Clifton Township supervisors twice tried to settle a zoning dispute with the developer, but a Lackawanna County judge voided the township's data center zoning ordinance in August 2026, leaving the project's legal footing unsettled while the township rewrites its rules. As part of talks the developer agreed to drop earlier plans for an on site small nuclear reactor or gas fired power plant.
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Blakely
Developers Jim Marzolino and Alpesh Patel had proposed a four building, 209 acre data center campus in Blakely borough, with each building around 150,000 square feet. After the borough rejected a request for an extra public meeting and more than 1,800 residents signed a petition against the project, the developers withdrew their proposal and a scheduled zoning hearing was canceled.
Power bills in Lackawanna County
Most of the county is served by PPL Electric.
PPL Electric distribution base rate case settlement raised residential rates 4.9% from July 2026: about $8 to $10 a month on a $184 bill. The order is meant to keep new data centers from pushing their power costs onto residential electric bills by requiring developers to pay for all of their own electricity. This does not change anyone's electric rate directly, but it is meant to stop the cost of new substations and power lines built for data centers from being added to everyone else's bill.
PPL Electric had asked to raise its base distribution rates, the part of the bill that pays for poles, wires and local service rather than the electricity itself, by 356.3 million dollars a year. A settlement filed in March 2026 cut that to 275 million dollars, working out to about a 4.9 percent increase for a typical residential customer, whose bill would rise to roughly 184 dollars a month once new rates take effect July 1, 2026. The settlement also builds in a large load tariff for new data center customers, including minimum 10 year contracts and security deposits, plus an 11 million dollar a year contribution to low income customer assistance programs.
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