Data centers are prohibited in the Rural Residential zoning district by removing them as a conditional use there.

Data centers may no longer be built by right in the Office Commercial, Commercial, and Industrial zoning districts; they require approval as a conditional use.

Conditional-use approval for data centers is subject to additional conditions concerning water consumption and energy consumption.

Authorizes data centers as conditional uses in the Office Commercial, Commercial, and Industrial zoning districts, creating a zoning approval pathway for construction or expansion in those districts. Approval remains subject to conditional-use review and added water- and energy-consumption conditions; data centers are removed as conditional uses in the Rural Residential district.

Data centers are removed as permitted uses by right in the Office Commercial, Commercial, and Industrial zoning districts and may be built there only as a conditional use.

Data centers are removed as conditional uses from the Rural Residential zoning district, so the ordinance no longer authorizes them there through the conditional-use process.

A data center must meet facade-design requirements on building sides facing roads or residential-permitting districts, including at least two specified design elements every 150 horizontal feet, with consistent design and materials where multiple sides are subject to the requirement.

A 100-foot buffer yard is required between a data center and any district permitting residential uses or planned residential developments; no buildings or parking areas may be placed in the buffer.

Screening is required between accessory buildings, mechanical equipment, substations, and adjacent roads or properties, unless the principal building provides the visual screen.

A water-feasibility study is required to establish adequate water supply and assess effects on nearby wells, streams, and groundwater; the study must include specified project, geological, well, stream, yield, impact, recycling or release, and preparer-qualification information. No data center may be approved without sufficient water.

A proposed data center using more than 50,000 gallons per day must analyze and consider beneficial-reuse water as an alternative for nonpotable use.

Projects withdrawing at least 100,000 gallons per day over a 30-day average, or making consumptive water uses of at least 20,000 gallons per day over a 30-day average, must provide proof of Susquehanna River Basin Commission review and approval.

Applicants must provide documentation from the serving electric utility verifying available system capacity and identifying required upgrades. Township approval may require phased energization, a development agreement allocating infrastructure costs, or onsite generation or energy-storage facilities to mitigate infrastructure impacts.

A traffic impact study is required with a land-development application when the use generates 100 or more new inbound or outbound vehicle trips during a peak hour, based on the latest ITE Trip Generation Manual; the Township Engineer may also direct that a study be prepared.

Data centers may be developed as conditional uses in the Office Commercial, Commercial, and Industrial zoning districts, subject to conditional-use approval: permitted by Conditional Use in the Office Commercial, Commercial, and Industrial Zoning Districts.

The data-center accessory-use definition allows utilities, substations, pump stations, mechanical and environmental systems, redundant power and data systems, and security measures to be located on the same tract or unified development site: Data Center —Accessory Use.

A traffic impact study is required when a use generates 100 or more new vehicle trips during a peak hour, unless the Township Engineer directs otherwise, reducing the study requirement for projects below that threshold: generates 100 new vehicle trips.

Required parking may be reduced by up to 25% when the development provides employees or residents with free transit passes or transit services: parking may be reduced up to 25%.

For electric-system impacts, the Township may condition approval on phased energization, a development agreement allocating infrastructure costs, or onsite generation or energy storage to mitigate identified impacts, providing multiple ways to address system-capacity constraints: phased energization.