The data center fight in South Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
As of September 27, 2026, South Strabane Township, Pennsylvania rejected a data center moratorium.
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
Residents called for moratorium but supervisors instead adopted regulatory ordinances with 1,500-foot residential setback, noise and dust rules. Unanimous vote on ordinances June 11. Leaves 651 of 1,400 acres available for DC on Zediker Station Road property. PA state moratorium bill (SB 1345) could provide additional tool if passed.
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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 project on the table
Zediker Station Data Center — Rumored
Operator: CNX
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.
Recent news
- South Strabane adopts data center, noise ordinances
- South Strabane Township passes 2 ordinances related to data centers
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 2 headlines archived.
Where the decision gets made
Board of Supervisors — Zoning and ordinances. Unanimously adopted two data-center ordinances (Jun 2026) after 6+ months of public meetings: a development ordinance (1,500-ft residential setback, 30-acre minimum lot size, height limits) and a separate noise/dust ordinance — real, already-decided regulatory outcomes, not a pause or ban.
Meets: 4th Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.
Where: South Strabane Township, Washington County, PA
Public comment: See the board's published minutes for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
Read from the official page on 2026-08-12. Meeting details change — confirm before you go.
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
- Allegheny County (24 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Upper Burrell Township (38 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-02
- Center Township (43 mi) — Enactedexpires 2026-12-07
- Buffalo Township (50 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-08
- Brookville (90 mi) — Enactedexpires 2026-12-14
- Warrington Township (170 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
- Gregg Township (174 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-16
- Pennsylvania (176 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
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.