Pennsylvania
Data centers in Northampton County
We track 2 projects inside Northampton County and 1 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Northampton County
Filed
MW not reported
Lower Mount Bethel Township
Peron Development and JG Petrucci Company, working with Talen Energy, want to rezone about 239 acres near existing power plants along Depue Ferry Road to industrial use for a data center campus called the Lower Mount Bethel Technology Center. The developers revised the plan after community pushback, moving it next to existing power infrastructure and promising the project will pay its own way for the electricity it uses. A local opposition group, No Data Center LMBT, continues to fight the plan alongside a similar proposal in neighboring Upper Mount Bethel Township.
Filed
2000 MW
Upper Mount Bethel Township
Slate Belt Holdings, working with Talen Energy and River Pointe Logistics, is proposing a huge data center campus on more than 750 acres of industrially zoned land in Upper Mount Bethel Township, with up to 24 buildings and as much as 2 gigawatts of power. More than 200 residents packed an August 2026 hearing on a proposed township ordinance that would set zoning and performance standards for the project. A draft agreement would require closed loop or non drinking water cooling and would pay 50 million dollars to local nonprofits if the project reaches full size.
Within 25 miles of Northampton County
24 mi SWOperatingLehigh County, PA
Power bills in Northampton 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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