The data center fight in Center Township, Pennsylvania
As of September 27, 2026, Center Township, Pennsylvania has a data center moratorium in force (action taken 2026-06-10; documented end date 2026-12-07).
Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
180-day curative amendment halting data center and power generation plant development in Butler County. Unanimous vote.
SourceNews
read 2026-09-06
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
The projects on the table
Unnamed Data Center — Rumored
Operator: Homer City Redevelopment LLC · Filing LLC: Homer City Redevelopment LLC
On PA DEP's tracker as proposed — no permit applications received yet. DEP records the location as approximate.
Next: Rumored only. Confirm with the planning office and file a records request to pin down what is real.
Source. Read 2026-09-20.
Unnamed Data Center — Rumored
Operator: Amazon Web Services
On PA DEP's tracker as proposed — no permit applications received yet. DEP records the location as approximate.
Next: Rumored only. Confirm with the planning office and file a records request to pin down what is real.
Source. Read 2026-09-20.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Pennsylvania.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Pennsylvania briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Pennsylvania
- Buffalo Township (7 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-08
- Upper Burrell Township (20 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-02
- Allegheny County (22 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- South Strabane Township (43 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Brookville (54 mi) — Enactedexpires 2026-12-14
- Gregg Township (155 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-16
- Lycoming County (158 mi) — Enactedexpires 2026-12-15
- Warrington Township (166 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
All 19 tracked actions in Pennsylvania are on the state page.
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.