Pennsylvania index · last changed 12 September 2026

Pennsylvania research coverage.

See the available records, draft source-family audit and remaining research gaps. A state page is not a complete inventory of its data centers.

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Research coverage

Research draft available; independent coverage review pending

Research draft available. Candidate findings and statewide coverage await independent review.

Draft source attempts: 2026-09-12 through 2026-09-12. These are draft audit dates, not a new independent check.

0 reviewed project/campus records; 0 reviewed facility/building records; 0 uncounted records. Inventories are non-additive.

Draft source-family roster and gaps
  • economic development incentives — searched

    Source references: PA-S0001, PA-S0002, PA-S0003, PA-S0004, PA-S0005

    • The Revenue reports name entities but no addresses, municipalities or counties, so most certifications cannot be bound to a site.
    • Certification-year reports before 2023 were not retrieved.
    • No DCED or county economic development award record was opened; the DCED data center planning toolkit was seen only in search results.
    • No list of projects previously in the PA Permit Fast Track Program was located.
  • utility commission large load — searched_partial

    Source references: PA-S0006, PA-S0007

    • The PA PUC order, docket and party comments were never read (two timeouts and one connection refusal).
    • No PJM large-load or interconnection record was retrieved.
    • The FERC proceedings over the Talen and Amazon Susquehanna interconnection service agreement were not retrieved from FERC itself.
    • No electric distribution company large-load tariff filing was opened.
  • environmental construction permits — searched_partial

    Source references: PA-S0008, PA-S0021

    • The full 32-00457A plan approval PDF timed out after 120 seconds, so emission unit and turbine details were not read.
    • No PA Bulletin air quality or NPDES notice was searched; the session's web search budget was exhausted before that family could be worked.
    • DEP eFACTS was not queried for any other data center site.
    • No municipal building or grading permit was retrieved for any candidate.
  • municipal planning assessor gis — searched

    Source references: PA-S0009, PA-S0010

    • Only one county assessor system was queried; no other Pennsylvania county GIS was used.
    • No township or borough zoning hearing board decision was retrieved, including the Upper Macungie, Jessup and East Vincent denials which are known only from reporting.
    • Municipal files for Carlisle, Middlesex Township, East Whiteland, Limerick, Upper Merion, Archbald, Hazle Township, Salem Township and Muncy Township were not reached.
  • tax abatement development agreements — searched_partial

    Source references: PA-S0011

    • Only the City's summary was read; the full community benefits agreement was not retrieved.
    • No LERTA, TIF, KOZ or county development agreement was opened for any other Pennsylvania project.
    • The Clifton Township settlement agreement with 1778 Rich Pike LLC is known only from reporting.
  • operator disclosures — searched_partial

    Source references: PA-S0020

    • Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Pennsylvania sites, even though Oracle and Amazon entities appear in the state certification reports.
    • Flexential, TierPoint, Netrality, Iron Mountain, Expedient, Sentinel, Switch, PowerHouse and TECfusions operator pages were not opened.
    • The session's web search budget was exhausted before operator pages could be located by search.
  • open datasets directories — searched

    Source references: PA-S0012

    • Thirty-one Compute Atlas Pennsylvania records were read but not worked into candidates, including the Lackawanna County cluster entries Project Gravity and Triboro Industrial Park, the Upper Merion Renaissance Park applications, Switch Big Beaver, Aligned's Shippingport site and several operating colocation facilities.
    • No commercial directory was used.
  • historical closures withdrawals names — searched

    Source references: PA-S0013, PA-S0014, PA-S0015

    • No municipal written decision, appeal filing or withdrawal letter was retrieved for any of these reversals.
    • Both Pennhurst articles returned HTTP 403.
    • Older Pennsylvania data center closures, demolitions and renames were not searched at all.
  • news and other discovery — searched_partial

    Source references: PA-S0016, PA-S0017, PA-S0018, PA-S0019

    • The session's WebSearch budget (200 calls) was exhausted partway through Pennsylvania, so the remaining families were worked only from URLs already in hand.
    • No advocacy or research tracker was opened.

No reviewed records published. This does not mean there are no data centers in this state.