Testimonials
How it feels to live next to PAX-1.
PAX-1 is going up beside homes, farms and families. Here is what that means to the people around it, in their own words.
Home
For the families closest to the site, PAX-1 is what they see out the window, every day.
For those of us who live here, this is not an abstract development issue. It is the sound we hear. It's the dust and the diesel we breathe. It's the trucks on our roads. It is the worry that the safety and peace of our homes are being treated as an acceptable trade-off.
Nobody wants to live in my house. Nobody wants to see the dirt. My cars sit out there with the tops down, and I gotta clean them every day because of the dirt, which I never had before. I didn't have the noise every day out there. I had peace and quiet.
Country Club Road resident of 35 yearsPlanning Commission workshop, July 13, 2026Listen Well, it's not perception when you sit here every day and look out, and that's what you see when you can't see the mountain anymore.
Country Club Road resident of 35 yearsPlanning Commission workshop, July 13, 2026Listen Now, we are deprived the lifestyle we once had. Sitting outside, hearing the birds, seeing wildlife. Now all we have is the noise, the dirt, dust storms, unhealthy air, and just being able to see a big dirt pile. We hoped to have lived the rest of our lives here.
Country Club Road neighbors, in a letter a neighbor read aloudBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen When I walk down in the evenings or after school with my young son, and we see, and we talk, and we wave to people every night, I just... I'm sorry. I'm getting overwhelmed.
Sherwood Drive resident and mom who moved home to MiddlesexBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen I was sent to the Gulf War. This is more upsetting to me than when I was at the Gulf War managing four intensive care units and a bunch of soldiers. This is stressful.
Teaberry Drive resident and Gulf War veteranBoard of Supervisors meeting, May 6, 2026Listen So I'm supposed to live in misery and so are my neighbors because somebody did not think ahead before they put this to an industrial zone.
Country Club Road residentBoard of Supervisors meeting, June 3, 2026Listen I mean, I just bought my house last year, and I really didn't like this, 'cause I would have never bought on Country Club Road had I known this was going in.
Country Club Road resident who bought a home there last yearPlanning Commission meeting, June 22, 2026Listen
Noise, dust and blasting
Since construction began, neighbors have lived with the beeping from six in the morning, dust on everything, and blasts that shake their homes.
When the bombs blast, our homes shake. I have pots, my plants outside that fall. I have a newborn baby that cries, okay? But besides that, is it because we live in a mobile home that we're not being taken seriously?
I'm out back with my kids today. It's, do you wear the headphones? Do you play the noise louder? There's no life anymore out back, not in summer.
Teaberry Drive resident in the Meadows, across the creekPlanning Commission meeting, July 27, 2026Listen We've been battered by noise every day. I wake up at six o'clock to beep, beep, beep till six o'clock at night.
Country Manor West residentBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen When it started hitting the first time, we had every neighbor that I could see when I went outside. So in every direction was outside because it felt like one of the houses in the neighborhood exploded.
Country Manor West resident near the creekBoard of Supervisors meeting, May 6, 2026Listen My home rattled, the doors rattled, the windows shook, and the floors shook and trembled at times. Was it awful? No. Was it upsetting? Yes. I live across the creek.
Teaberry Drive resident across the creekBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen If I sat here during this meeting, I'm gonna sit back there and go, ‘Beep, beep, beep, beep’ as everyone speaks. You would kick me out for disturbance, yet this is what I am expected to tolerate on my own property.
Resident of the MeadowsBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen And I just want you to really, when you're talking to all these people with these plans, really think there's real people here, out here, going through this, and we're actually living through the blasts, getting text messages and this, that, and the noise. There's a constant beep, beep, beep, beep, beep all day long that we hear.
Sassafras Lane resident, one of the first homes across the creekBoard of Supervisors meeting, July 1, 2026Listen Okay, I really don't wanna be here. I don't think many of us do. I also did not want to go to a blasting meeting. I'm gonna tear up again. Okay. It's not what in our senior years my husband and I thought we would be doing. Walking out to our door, seeing a tag, ‘You're invited to a blasting meeting.’
Retired Teaberry Drive residentBoard of Supervisors workshop, June 26, 2026Listen You are impacting our lives on that road. I understand it's an agreement, but I would really appreciate if you guys hold to the agreement that you have, and that we don't start before 6:00 AM, and that we finish promptly at 6:00. I would appreciate that, so I can actually live my life.
Country Club Road residentPlanning Commission workshop, September 14, 2026Listen My question is, what are the effects of the noise on our children's mental health?
Teaberry Drive residentPlanning Commission meeting, July 27, 2026Listen
The land and the water
The site was open farmland. Neighbors describe what they see there now, and what they worry about for the creek and their wells.
I had, when I moved in there a year ago, or a little over a year ago, there was a big, beautiful soybean field, and it was a beautiful soybean field. It was very healthy. So that property was not dilapidated or ruined. It was good, healthy farmland. Okay? You know what it looks like now? It looks like a strip mine.
I understand that data centers have to go somewhere, but they don't have to go everywhere. They don't have to go in the middle of a farm field. Like, I sat on Green Hill, because I make my way to Bernheisel Bridge, and I looked at that sunset yesterday, and I'm gonna cry because I'm just angry. And I won't have that anymore.
Resident of the MeadowsBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen And I'm sorry, but this quite frankly makes me livid because this was literally my home, and has always been my home. And you know, I never imagined not being able to fish the Conodoguinet, or not being able to take my kids there to play.
Country Manor resident who grew up along the ConodoguinetPlanning Commission workshop, May 11, 2026Listen I am not opposed to progress. I'm opposed to sacrificing our environment, our wildlife, our quality of life, and the character of our community for this particular development. I moved here believing this would be my forever home.
Meadowbrook resident who moved here less than a year agoBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen I don't know about you guys, but our house runs on well water, and if they drain the aquifer faster than it can replenish itself, how long until I have to drill a new well or move entirely because I'm out of water?
Middlesex Township father on a private wellBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen What is the timeline for repair when someone no longer has potable water? Weeks? Months? And how do they get clean water while they wait?
Wolf's Bridge Road residentBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen
I was in college in the '60s, and I never protested. I'm a protester now. I'm in the Capitol with the ‘Stop this no data center’ sign. This is not who I am. This is who you have turned me into.
Being heard
Many asked the Supervisors for the same thing: to be listened to.
We deserve transparency. We deserve meaningful public participation. We deserve reasonable protections. Most importantly, we deserve to be treated with the same respect that we are repeatedly told this process is supposed to represent. Our homes are not simply points on a map, and our voices should not be treated as an obstacle to your progress.
From the beginning, the public has received more notice about annual Christmas tree lightings and Easter egg hunts than about life-altering ordinance changes and the potential arrival of sixteen data centers.
Evergreen Lane resident and momBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen People make enormous decisions in their lives, and sometimes they stop and ask themselves, ‘Is this really the right thing to do?’ Changing course doesn't mean you failed. Sometimes it means you finally listened. So I'm asking you tonight to listen.
Resident of the MeadowsBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen It seems that the residents are the ones that have to bring up the non-compliance issues, such as speeding construction vehicles, road problems, too much dust, too loud, berms too high, and apparently still too high, blasting too loud, et cetera. Where is the oversight and protection for the Middlesex residents, the environment, and the wildlife?
Resident of the Meadows for 33 yearsBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen We chose this township for its quiet, its land, its nearness to nature, peace, and calm. All that's at risk for my family and all of my neighbors and fellow residents. It's being decided for us without us.
Middlesex Township resident who moved here a few years agoBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen This is supposed to be your way of winning me over, to let me know why I should be happy you're coming in and bulldozing into my life right across the street from me, twelve hundred feet from my front door.
Resident of the MeadowsBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen I've lived here almost 50 years, I think. But my neighbors don't know about this, and when I say it they're like, ‘Oh, really? That's terrible.’
Ironstone Ridge resident of nearly 50 yearsBoard of Supervisors meeting, May 6, 2026Listen So I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, but let's just please treat us with respect. We treat you with respect, and I'm asking for honesty 'cause that's what you'll get from me, okay?
Wertzville Road residentBoard of Supervisors workshop, August 28, 2026Listen As I just kind of sit here tonight and just take in the dynamic, the energy, I think we're all exhausted, but not done.
Middlesex Township residentBoard of Supervisors meeting, July 1, 2026Listen This is their business, but this is our lives. Growth and preservation can happen simultaneously and thoughtfully. I have been filled with a sense of pride as I've watched this community get involved. Neighbors who have previously been strangers have become friends.
Bernheisel Bridge Road resident and momBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen
What comes next
Some are deciding whether to stay. Others are thinking about their children.
And I'm only twenty years old. I'm pretty young. I'm hoping to start a family in this area, but I don't know if I want to do that if my children are going to have to be raised around data centers instead of the Appalachian Trail.
I live five hundred feet from this monstrosity. My children will not move home because they don't wanna raise their kids around here.
Resident of the Meadows and a nurse for 41 yearsBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen Being back home felt much better than being in a city where there were a lot of air quality issues, a lot of old industry, a lot of water pollution. And I feel like here we are facing the same thing that Pittsburgh saw a hundred years ago.
North Middlesex Road resident who grew up hereBoard of Supervisors meeting, September 2, 2026Listen Maybe data centers are necessary. Maybe they have a place in our economy and our future. But residential neighborhoods should not be the place where the burden is imposed on families who have never asked for it.
Evergreen Lane resident and momBoard of Supervisors special meeting, August 19, 2026Listen
Your turn
Say it to the Board yourself#
Public comment is for residents and taxpayers of Middlesex Township, three minutes each. Anyone else can send a written comment. The next meeting is the Board of Supervisors, Regular Meeting on Wednesday, October 7, at 6:00 pm.
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