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STATUS: Active | Application not accepted by Borough
Last updated: 4/1/2026
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Project North is a 66 acre industrial data center campus positioned to aggressively hug the Jermyn border towering over established quiet neighborhoods while dozens of acres of existing woodland are clear cut to make way for it.
The project's primary access road runs directly off Lackawanna Street in Jermyn, funneling construction equipment and daily operational traffic straight through a residential community.
What neighbors will live alongside is a 350'×400' high voltage substation, a 74,970 square foot generator yard, and three 124,200 square foot data center buildings pushing 225 megawatts of power all positioned directly adjacent to surrounding homes. The noise, visual impact, and constant industrial hum would become a permanent feature of what are now quiet residential streets.
The land sits virtually sandwiched between Jermyn's residential zones and Archbald's R-2 and R-3 districts. The C-2 commercial zoning designation doesn't change what this actually is: a heavy industry dropped into the middle of a residential community.
And because the application was submitted under zoning rules that classify data centers as permitted by right, none of this requires a public hearing or a Borough Council vote. A development that would permanently alter the character of two boroughs is attempting to move forward without the community ever getting a say.