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May 14, 2026: Archbald Borough Council held its fourth conditional use hearing for the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus, and the applicant's case continued to deteriorate. What was intended to be a straightforward acoustic expert presentation became an extended cross-examination that exposed serious flaws in the noise study. Highlights include the discovery of a 10 decibel error in the submitted report; equipment calibration certificates that fall short of the borough ordinance's own ANSI standards with the expert herself unable to guarantee the results; zero low frequency noise analysis despite 10 large power transformers on site; 210 chillers left entirely out of the noise model; and three different generator counts across the application's own documents, none of which matched what was actually modeled. A fifth hearing is scheduled for Monday, June 15th at 5 PM.
Residents of the Valley, and especially Archbald, are facing an unprecedented wave of proposed industrial data center development that threatens our community's health, safety, quality of life, and long-term character.
We are a grassroots group of everyday people working hard to hold borough officials accountable and ensure our voices are heard in this process.