The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Hamilton Township
Anti-Data Center Policies
Pennsylvania requires data centers over 25 MW to obtain local approvals, secure power for their full demand, cover project-related grid costs, and meet added community, jobs, environmental, and reporting obligations. These rules may raise costs and delay or prevent covered projects, but do not ban them.
Rating and summary from Pennsylvania statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Hamilton Township.
current law · Hamilton TownshipThis Hamilton Township zoning amendment allows data centers by special exception in the Commercial and Employment-Industrial districts.Hamilton Township Data Center Zoning Ordinance (2025)
People behind it
- Hamilton Township Planning Commission
Recommended advertising a public hearing for the proposed zoning amendments concerning data centers, battery energy storage systems, and sound-study requirements.
- Hamilton Township Board of Supervisors
Conducted the public hearing and unanimously adopted the proposed zoning amendments.
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