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The Data Center Divide

Clinton County

This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.

Anti-Data Center Policies

Clinton County’s enacted resolution allows municipalities to pause data-center applications for up to 180 days while reviewing land-use rules; each municipality must choose to adopt a pause. The description also calls it a proposal.

Rating from Pennsylvania statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Clinton County.

Specific to Clinton County only.

current law · County measure: Grugan Township, Gallagher Township, Noyes Township, West Keating Township, and Logan Township
Imposes a 180-day pause on data-center applications in Clinton County areas under county zoning jurisdiction while the county develops zoning amendments, including provisions on setbacks, noise, light, and water use.Clinton County Commissioners Resolution on 180-Day Pause for Data Center Applications (2026)

What this means

The proposal would let municipalities pause data-center applications for up to 180 days while they consider changing their land-use rules, delaying projects and potentially adding new local restrictions (pause of up to 180 days). But it does not impose a statewide pause or ban; each municipality would have to choose to adopt one.

Timing

Ends
No later than 180 days after adoption

The measure authorizes a municipality to impose a pause on data-center applications for up to 180 days. The pause is retroactive to the required public notice of the meeting and ends no later than 180 days after adoption; the zoning amendments or other ordinance provisions adopted during the pause remain.

People behind it

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

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  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Introduced HB 2496.

  • Passed resolutions imposing a 180-day pause on data-center applications and directing preparation of county zoning amendments.

  • Proposed legislation adding a statutory pause on data-center proposals to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

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  • A municipality may impose a pause on submitting data-center development applications by adopting a resolution at a public meeting.

  • The pause may last up to 180 days and may apply retroactively to the date the municipality publicly noticed the meeting.

  • During the pause, statutory deadlines for reviewing, holding hearings on, and deciding data-center applications are suspended and tolled until the pause ends.

  • A municipality may not accept or consider a data-center application by adding it to an agenda under the exception for changing agency business under 65 Pa.C.S. § 712.1(e).

  • Applications submitted during the pause are deemed received on the day after the pause ends and are subject to zoning provisions adopted, amended, or repealed during the pause.

  • The measure defines a data center broadly to include facilities predominantly housing working servers or similar data-storage systems, facilities with backup or uninterruptible power or cooling infrastructure, or facilities with a peak demand of at least 25 megawatts.

  • Clinton County imposed a 180-day pause on data-center applications within its jurisdiction, which covers Grugan, Gallagher, Noyes, West Keating, and Logan townships, while the county updates its zoning ordinance.

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