No project in East Penn Township, but 6 nearby
Who decides here: the Township Supervisors (in some larger townships, the Board of Commissioners) of East Penn Township votes on zoning. The Carbon County Planning Commission usually reviews big projects too.
Nearby (within 15 miles)
DTA Alliance data center campus (Lower Towamensing Township)
Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County
700 acres
🕒 Sept 10, 2026: About 20 people attended a planning commission meeting raising water, noise and property…
Proposedabout 10 miles awayKeel Infrastructure Panther Creek / Carbon Node East data center (Nesquehoning)
Nesquehoning, Carbon County
🕒 Aug 21, 2026: Keel said the closed-loop cooling system would need about 700,000 gallons to fill at the…
Proposedabout 13 miles awayProject Atlas (Edged, South Whitehall Township)
South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County
410 acres
🕒 July 9, 2026: New three-building plan (about 1.5 million sq ft, 725 MW) presented; township engineer d…
Proposedabout 14 miles awayPenn Forest Township data center (Route 903 and Maury Road)
Penn Forest Township, Carbon County
750 acres
🕒 Aug 2026: The zoning board threw out a separate challenge to the data center ordinance because no …
Approved, not built yetabout 14 miles awayPrologis Lehigh Valley East 16 warehouse-to-data-center (Allen Township)
Allen Township, Northampton County
🕒 April 21, 2026: The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission said it could not fully review the plan and asked …
Proposedabout 14 miles awayNorthPoint data center on Tresckow Mountain (Banks and Packer townships)
Banks Township, Carbon County
1,200 acres
🕒 Sept 30, 2025: NorthPoint met the public in Tresckow. About 150 people came; many said they do not want…
Local votes and rules
📜 Data center rules
East Penn Township supervisors unanimously adopted Ordinance 2026-01 on data centers. They said they needed rules on the books quickly so the state could not override them, and promised to strengthen it later. A resident asked them to add Kidder Township's rules on closed-loop cooling and power supply.
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in East Penn Township. - Go to township meetings.
Anyone can speak. Big projects usually need a public hearing. - Ask questions in writing.
Use our checklist.
🔔 Get told first
⚡ Your electric company
PPL Electric Utilities Corp. (company).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Pennsylvania.