Timeline
Updated July 19, 2026This was pushed through with real gaps. Here they are, in chronological order. Every date is on the public record, and most link directly to the source document.
17 milestones · 137 in the full record
At a Board workshop, the developer's attorney, PowerHouse CEO Doug Fleit, and the project team present the data center concept for the first time; the supervisors voice support the same day and send it to the Planning Commission. The minutes record no public comment.
The developer's attorney emails Zoning Officer Mark Carpenter and the township zoning consultant a pre-drafted Data Center Overlay ordinance for the township's new zoning ordinance — sent outside any public meeting.
The township zoning consultant confirms to the developer's attorney: "we have the Data Center Overlay language incorporated into the draft." The developer's text is now in the township's ordinance.
At a workshop, the developer's attorney urges speed — PPL power will be allocated on a "first-come, first available basis" — and the Board schedules the overlay hearing for May 30, with the developer paying for the advertising. The 35-day clock starts.
At a 7:30 a.m. hearing with — in a supervisor's own later words — "very little public attendance," the Board unanimously adopts Ordinance 3-2025, the Data Center Overlay. Thirty-five days after the Board took up the request.
PAX-1 is announced as a ~$15 billion project at Senator McCormick's Energy and Innovation Summit; developer Igal Feibush joins a private roundtable with the President.
DEP issues a Notice of Violation for the unpermitted line through the wetland on Country Club Road, citing the Clean Streams Law, and requests an after-the-fact permit application.
Residents pack a township meeting with questions about the data center; PennLive reports the first organized resistance and skepticism.
The Board adopts Ordinance 7-2025, the comprehensive zoning rewrite: the overlay is folded in as Section 2.18, the land under it becomes MU-1 "Mixed-Use Neighborhood," and data centers become by-right in the Industrial district.
The Board conditionally approves the preliminary subdivision: 693 acres, five lots, one data-center development.
The State Historic Preservation Office rejects the developer's "no adverse effect" memo and formally finds the project WILL have an adverse effect on the Appalachian Trail.
The developer's own noise study is completed: 532 generators across the campus.
In one meeting, the Board conditionally approves the final subdivision, the final Phase 1A plan, and the preliminary Phase 1B plan — 29 more waivers, modifications, and deferrals of township standards across the three approvals.
Five couples who live beside the site file a substantive validity challenge with the Zoning Hearing Board, arguing the Data Center Overlay is illegal spot zoning. Pennsylvania courts have been striking down spot zoning where they find it since the 1960s; the challenge asks the Zoning Hearing Board to find it here.
The residents appeal the May 6 approvals to the Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas, asking the court to review whether the township followed its own ordinances.
Nine days before the hearing, the residents' attorney Nathan Wolf calls the Zoning Hearing Board's solicitor to confirm logistics. She tells him there will be no hearing, with little explanation given.
DEP issues its determination on the stormwater objections, answering one of the residents' four. The other three are left unaddressed.
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