Anxieties have been rising in Springdale as the borough north of Pittsburgh debates whether to welcome a data center to the site of a former coal-fired power plant.
The borough council plans to make a decision at its Dec. 16 meeting, after collecting hours worth of evidence from Allegheny DC Property Company, which hopes to build the data center.
Allegheny DC has already bought the property where the former Cheswick Generating Station sat. County records show the sale closed on Nov. 19, two days after the borough’s planning commission voted to recommend the borough council approve a conditional use permit for the site…