Upper Burrell Planners OK Data Center Rules 5-0; Gas Mandate Stays

The Upper Burrell Township (Westmoreland County, PA) Planning Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday night to recommend the township's data center ordinance, handing it to the three township supervisors. The supervisors hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. tonight (Oct. 22), followed by a special meeting to consider adopting it. They're racing the clock: the township's data center moratorium expires Nov. 2, just 11 days from now. Last month we told you the draft quietly requires every new data center to make its own around-the-clock ("baseload") power, which in southwest Pennsylvania means natural gas. As best we can tell, that requirement survived.

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