No project in Roaring Brook Township, but 19 nearby
Who decides here: the Township Supervisors (in some larger townships, the Board of Commissioners) of Roaring Brook Township votes on zoning. The Lackawanna County Planning Commission usually reviews big projects too.
Nearby (within 15 miles)
Triboro data center site (Olyphant)
Olyphant, Lackawanna County
🕒 April 14, 2026: Borough Council declared its zoning invalid for leaving out data centers, giving itself …
Proposedabout 6 miles awayDBT-Data Lackawanna One (Jessup)
Jessup, Lackawanna County
39 acres
🕒 Sept 4, 2026: Application filed for a 200,000-square-foot, one-story data center.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Proposedabout 6 miles awayBreaker Street data center campus (Jessup)
Jessup, Lackawanna County
131 acres
🕒 Sept 25, 2026: News reports said Breaker Street Associates LLC, tied to Catalyst Commercial Development…
Approved, not built yetabout 7 miles awaySunnyside Road data center (Jessup)
Jessup, Lackawanna County
🕒 Sept 25, 2026: News reports said the Sunnyside Road project is 'tied up in litigation' after Council's …
Proposedabout 7 miles awayDickson City Development data center (Bell Mountain)
Dickson City, Lackawanna County
🕒 Sept 18, 2026: The Times-Tribune listed the Bell Mountain project (4 buildings) as denied by the zoning…
Stopped or cancelledabout 8 miles awayBlakely data center campus
Blakely, Lackawanna County
209 acres
🕒 Sept 12, 2025: Developers withdrew the zoning change request after the borough declined another public …
Local votes and rules
📌 Other · Lackawanna County
Lackawanna County commissioners voted unanimously to hire EmPower Analytics Group for $165,000. Over 90 days the firm will study the pollution and health effects of more than a dozen proposed data center campuses and power plants in the county.
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in Roaring Brook 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.