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STATUS: Denied | Application denied by Council majority vote | Developer Appeal Expected Last updated: 3/27/2026
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This isn't a single building going up on an empty lot. It's an 18 building, 400 acre industrial campus, more than 5.5 million square feet of data center infrastructure stretching from Eynon-Jermyn Road all the way to the Scranton Carbondale Highway.
That corridor runs directly alongside Archbald Pothole State Park and the youth soccer fields at Ed Staback Memorial Park. The mature woodland and open space that exists there today would be replaced by a high security industrial complex: 8-foot anticlimb fencing, 24/7 guard stations, and a field of diesel and natural gas backup generators humming around the clock. Current plans permit a permanent 5 decibel increase in background noise for nearby residents. A change that, once approved, doesn't go away.
Getting there means demolishing existing forestry and structures, disturbing local wetlands, and adding more than 2,000 vehicle trips to our roads every single day. This will create permanent features within a community that would look and feel fundamentally different from the one we live in now.
Because this is a conditional use application, the Borough Council cannot vote without public hearings first. The public hearings are where the applicant bears the burden to prove their application meets the requirements of the zoning ordinance.