1 data center project in East Whiteland Township
Who decides here: the Township Supervisors (in some larger townships, the Board of Commissioners) of East Whiteland Township votes on zoning. The Chester County Planning Commission usually reviews big projects too.
In East Whiteland Township
Nearby (within 15 miles)
MLP Ventures data centers (Upper Merion Township)
Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County
🕒 Sept 10, 2026: Supervisors voted to send the township lawyer to oppose the developer's variance request…
Proposedabout 10 miles awayPennhurst data center (East Vincent Township)
East Vincent Township, Chester County
125 acres
🕒 June 26, 2026: Penn Hurst Holdings DE LLC appealed the denial to the Chester County Court of Common Ple…
Stopped or cancelledabout 11 miles awayConstellation Energy data center (East Coventry Township, near Limerick nuclear plant)
East Coventry Township, Chester County
🕒 Feb 17, 2026: Constellation withdrew its application (BOS-25-002) for data center zoning changes; the …
Proposedabout 13 miles awayData center at former steel mill, 900 Conshohocken Road (Plymouth Township)
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County
🕒 Aug 6, 2026: Zoning Hearing Board hearing at Colonial Middle School ended without a decision; more se…
Proposedabout 13 miles awayPublicker site data center (1301 Main St., Linfield, Limerick Township)
Limerick Township, Montgomery County
191.46 acres
🕒 Sept 2026: Township agreed to the developer's request to delay hearings. The extension runs to Jan.…
Proposedabout 13 miles awayProject Laurel (MCD 7 LLC, Limerick Township)
Limerick Township, Montgomery County
192 acres · for Not named (developer cites NDAs)
🕒 April 2026: Township planners asked for new will-serve letters from Pennsylvania American Water to s…
Local votes and rules
🗳️ Public vote
Voters will decide on Nov. 3, 2026 whether to grow the township board from 3 supervisors to 5. Residents gathered at least 500 signatures to put the question on the ballot. They acted after anger over how the township handled a 1.5 million square foot data center plan on a former 79-acre Superfund site.
📜 Data center rules
East Whiteland supervisors voted unanimously for a 32-page data center ordinance. It sets distances data centers must keep from homes, schools, daycares, parks and churches, and limits noise, water use, cooling systems and power supplies. It does not apply to the data center already being built.
📌 Other
East Whiteland ordered the developers to stop work on the data center at the former Foote Mineral Superfund site. The township said work cannot restart until the water company confirms enough water is available. It was the second stop-work order that summer.
⚖️ Court case
A county judge threw out two appeals by residents who challenged the township's approvals for a 1.5 million-square-foot data center on Bacton Hill Road. The judge called the appeals frivolous, noting one came eight years after the 2018 zoning decision.
📌 Other · Chester County
The Chester County Planning Commission, working with Montgomery County, published a Data Center Ordinance Guide with sample zoning rules towns can copy. It suggests allowing large data centers only through a conditional use review, keeping them 1,000 feet from homes, and limiting height and noise.
📌 Other
With hundreds of residents present, the East Whiteland Planning Commission voted unanimously to urge supervisors to look hard at Green Fig's plan to grow its approved data center from 1 million to 1.7 million square feet.
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
East Whiteland supervisors started a 180-day pause on new data center proposals so the township could write data center zoning rules. The pause did not stop the data center already approved at the old Foote Mineral site.
✅ Approved
East Whiteland supervisors granted development plan approval for a data center at 13 S. Bacton Hill Road, on the former Foote Mineral Superfund site. The project builds on a zoning permit from 2018 and is now under construction.
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in East Whiteland 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
PECO Energy Co. (company).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Pennsylvania.
🙋 Open tasks here
- Will Aqua commit enough water?
- Is the Superfund site safely cleaned up?
- Who is the end user?
- Will the plan be downsized?