At an Oct. 13 meeting on a proposed data center, more than 200 residents crowded into Elizabeth Forward Middle School’s auditorium in Elizabeth Township, Pa. Opposition emerged, petitions circulated, and Elizabeth Township officers escorted one attendee out after a disturbance.
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Commissioners were first approached in June about locating a possible data center at a power plant site, and the gathering at Elizabeth Forward Middle School was the township’s first public move since then, according to the Mon Valley Independent.
About 330 questions were submitted beforehand, and township resident Eric Piper condensed them into roughly four dozen for the discussion.
According to the Mon Valley Independent, Bucks County developer Tim Hendricks, who said he has 35 years in real estate, is looking at a 550-acre Henderson Road site in the Buena Vista area next to the Youghiogheny River. Preliminary concepts presented at the meeting included 20 two-story buildings and stormwater basins…