BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The one data center proposed in Bethlehem could not be built on its site under the zoning rules City Council takes up Tuesday, but those rules won’t apply to it.
The two-story project at 2184 Industrial Drive sits in the city’s Planned Industrial district, where the ordinance would ban data centers. Boyle Construction, Paxos and Tensor IQ announced it in August, with a projected peak demand of about 120 megawatts.
The lot would also fail the new setback. City zoning and parcel maps show that every part of the 6.75-acre site is within 1,000 feet of residentially zoned property, the minimum the rules would require…