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We track 5 projects inside Luzerne County and 0 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
QTS Data Centers, backed by Blackstone, is developing a second, separate 1,700 acre data center campus in Salem Township, distinct from the AWS campus next to the nuclear plant. Local firm 4-3 Consulting organized the purchase of land from 96 area landowners for more than 500 million dollars, and the plan calls for a 12 building campus using closed loop cooling. Construction was expected to begin in late 2026.
The 4-3 Glenbrook Group is assembling a third and even larger data center campus in Salem Township, aiming to buy more than 4,000 acres from over 200 landowners for an estimated 1.4 billion dollars in land sale proceeds. The plan calls for a 39 building campus with its own on site power generation. The township planning commission has recommended that the elected supervisors approve an expansion of the township's data center overlay zoning district to accommodate it, with a final vote still pending.
A developer has proposed a data center on about 155 acres in Dorrance Township and has petitioned the township zoning hearing board, arguing the township's rules unlawfully exclude the use. The developer's name was not disclosed in available reporting. It is one of several data center proposals moving through Luzerne County townships at the same time.
Amazon runs a data center campus next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant near Berwick, buying up to 1,920 megawatts of carbon free power from Talen Energy through 2042. The first data center on the roughly 1,200 acre site is already operating and Talen and Amazon plan to keep expanding it toward as many as 20 buildings. It is one of three separate large data center developments now under way in Salem Township.
NorthPoint Development proposed a 15 building data center campus in Hazle Township known as Project Hazelnut. Township supervisors denied the proposal in November 2025, and the developer's appeal of that denial was still working through the courts as of the most recent reporting. It is one of several competing data center proposals across Luzerne 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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