3
sites filed to add data center capacity in Q3 in the records reviewed: Switch's campus in Big Beaver and Aligned's Phase 2 in Shippingport, both in Beaver County, and Misty Hollow in Forward Township, Butler County. The metro-wide total is unknown.
20+
local governments passed data center rules in Q3 in the records reviewed: zoning ordinances, moratoria and findings that their zoning was invalid for data centers, and Allegheny County Council's limit on county-owned land, which awaits the county executive's signature.
Developers filed for data center campuses on a former race track, a former power plant site and open land north of Pittsburgh in Q3, while at least 20 local governments, Allegheny County among them, passed data center rules of their own.
Operating facilities on the map (19)
The small hollow grey dots are data centers listed in the public PeeringDB facility list, each linked to its record. Listings marked closed are left off. A listed building is in no count on this page.
| Operator | Facility | City | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| ark data centers | ark data centers - Akron,OH | Akron | peeringdb.com/fac/8337 |
| ark data centers | ark data centers - Canton,OH | Canton | peeringdb.com/fac/12237 |
| ark data centers | ark data centers - Pittsburgh, PA | Freeport | peeringdb.com/fac/12239 |
| aspStation, Inc. | aspStation, Inc. | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/14479 |
| Citynet | Citynet Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/268 |
| Crown Castle Inc. | Crown Castle Pittsburgh (Allegheny Center Mall) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/1423 |
| DataBank, Ltd. | DataBank Pittsburgh (PIT1) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/4292 |
| DataBank, Ltd. | DataBank Pittsburgh (PIT2) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/10917 |
| DQE Communications LLC | DQE Communications (Allegheny Center Mall) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/8127 |
| DQE Communications LLC | DQE Communications (Butler) | Butler | peeringdb.com/fac/8126 |
| DQE Communications LLC | DQE Communications (Downtown Pittsburgh) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/8125 |
| EdgeConneX Inc. | EdgeConneX Pittsburgh (EDCPIT01) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/1925 |
| Expedient | Expedient Pittsburgh - Green Tree | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/8477 |
| Expedient | Expedient Pittsburgh - Nova Place | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/8475 |
| H5 Data Centers | H5 Data Centers Pittsburgh (PA02) | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/3931 |
| LightSpeed Technologies, LLC | LSTI 401 Market | Canton | peeringdb.com/fac/15455 |
| Lumen Technologies Inc | Lumen Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/13513 |
| SecureData 365 | SecureData 365 | Canton | peeringdb.com/fac/9699 |
| Zayo Group | Zayo Pittsburgh - 2500 Allegheny Center Mall | Pittsburgh | peeringdb.com/fac/2929 |
What happened this quarter
Three sites filed to add capacity, two of them in Beaver County
Three sites filed to add data center capacity in the Q3 records reviewed. On July 7 Big Beaver Borough received Switch's plan for three data center buildings of 215,750 square feet each on about 384 acres of the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex. Downriver in Shippingport, Aligned's Phase 2 plans reached the borough engineer in mid-August and won approval on September 21, contingent on other agencies' permits. North of the city, 614 Prospect Road LLC signed an application on August 24 for a data center with a 1,000,000 square foot footprint and 300 MW of on-site generation on 274 acres in Forward Township. None of the three states a data center load. The metro-wide total is unknown.
At least 20 local governments passed data center rules
At least 20 local governments passed data center rules in Q3 in the records reviewed, from zoning ordinances to moratoria, findings that their zoning was invalid for data centers and a limit on county land. Allegheny County Council voted 14-0 on September 22 to bar data centers of 25 MW or more from county-owned parcels and buildings, and the record shows the ordinance awaiting the county executive's signature. Seven were in Washington County and five in Butler County. Charleroi adopted a 180-day moratorium and Connoquenessing a 90-day one. Big Beaver started a curative amendment on August 4, four weeks after Switch filed there.
Earlier projects moved through review, and one was turned away
Allegheny County, which reviews land development in Springdale, found the Springdale data center's preliminary plan deficient in a September 16 letter, citing at-grade diesel generators, contamination and the lack of authority over a Duquesne Light substation parcel. The borough approved the project's conditional use in December 2025. Hanover Township's hearings on Prime Data Centers' Starpointe campus were continued in August without a decision on the record. Mahoning Township found the Powder Mill Works plan insufficient in June, and the zoning boards in North Beaver and Mahoning denied the developer's appeals in September, the New Castle News reported. Upper Burrell approved TECfusions' Building J on August 5 as upgrades to an existing building, with no added power stated.
A state order ties large data center permits to local approval
Governor Shapiro's Executive Order 2026-05, signed August 18, covers data centers with peak demand over 25 MW. For an applicant without the state's template consent agreement, the environment department does not begin review until local approvals are documented. That puts more weight on the township and borough decisions above. In Elizabeth Township, the commissioners' president told the September 14 meeting that the township had been approached about a data center. A developer presented at an October 13 town hall, and no plan is on the township's record.
The quarter's filings
| Site | Square feet | Estimated cost, as filed | MW, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switch PIT 01-03Big Beaver, Beaver County. 3 buildings | 647,250 | TBA | TBA |
| Misty Hollow Energy and Data CampusForward Township, Butler County. 1 data center | 1,000,000 | TBA | 300, on-site generation |
| Aligned Project Phoenix, Phase 2Shippingport, Beaver County | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Total, 3 sites | 1,647,2502 of 3 sites | TBA | TBA |
Each site's figures are what its record states. TBA marks a figure the record does not state yet. Estimated cost, as filed, is the filers' own unverified figure, not total project spend, and none of the three records enters one. Square feet adds Switch's gross floor area to Misty Hollow's data center footprint, as each record states it. Misty Hollow's 300 MW is on-site generating capacity, not a data center load, so there is no megawatt total.
Sites filing to add data center capacity, by quarter
A site counts once in a quarter however many permits it files. Few county planning agencies around Pittsburgh post their plan reviews, and many of the 487 municipalities post no records at all, so a quarter can be missing a site and the quarters do not compare. Q3 2026 is provisional.
Earlier quarters, from the records we have
These counts come from the records we could search for each quarter. Some sources only start partway through, so read them as what the records show, not as a trend.
| Quarter | Pittsburgh metro: sites filing to add capacity |
|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 3 |
| Q1 2026 | 1 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 |
| Q3 2025 | 1 |
| Q2 2025 | 0 |
| Q1 2025 | 1 |
Filings, decisions and local actions by quarter
| Quarter | Filings to add data center sites, buildings or power | Decisions, milestones and local actions |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | Pittsburgh metro. Beaver County Planning Commission: Stormwater and utility plans, Vantage Data Centers PA1, Shippingport (on file by this county review) | March 4, 2025, Shippingport Borough Council (Beaver): Ordinance 240, regulating data mining, data centers and server farms. Adopted unanimously. |
| Q2 2025 | None with a dated record | April 1, 2025, Shippingport Borough Council: Vantage Data Centers withdrew from its Shippingport Industrial Park plan. Reported by the borough solicitor. April 24, 2025, Cranberry Township Supervisors (Butler): Ordinance 2025-526, data center use conditions. Adopted 4-0. |
| Q3 2025 | Pittsburgh metro. Springdale Borough: Conditional use application, Allegheny DC Property Company, 151 Porter Street | September 16, 2025, Big Beaver Borough Council (Beaver): Ordinance 245, zoning amendments with data center standards. Adopted 6-0. |
| Q4 2025 | None with a dated record | October 20, 2025, Rostraver Township Commissioners (Westmoreland): Ordinance 781, adding data centers to the zoning ordinance. Enacted 5-0. December 6, 2025, Springdale Zoning Hearing Board: Six variances for the Springdale data center. Approved 3-0 with conditions. December 9, 2025, Stowe Township Commissioners (Allegheny): Zoning amendment adding data centers in the general industrial district. Approved by roll call. December 16, 2025, Springdale Borough Council: Conditional use for the Springdale data center. Approved with 19 conditions, 5-2 as reported by WESA. |
| Q1 2026 | Pittsburgh metro. Shippingport Borough: Conditional use application, Aligned (on file by this meeting, where the borough engineer reported comments on it) | March 23, 2026, Hempfield Township Supervisors (Westmoreland): Ordinance 2026-02, limiting data centers to industrial districts. Adopted 5-0. March 30, 2026, Wilkins Township Commissioners (Allegheny): Ordinance 1142, data centers by conditional use. Adopted unanimously. March 31, 2026, Shippingport Borough Council: Conditional use for Aligned's campus. Approved unanimously, subject to a written decision. |
| Q2 2026 | Pittsburgh metro. Hanover Township: Two conditional use applications, Prime Data Centers, Starpointe Business Park (on file by this planning commission review) Mahoning Township: Preliminary land development plan, Powder Mill Works (date as the supervisors' minutes give it) Allegheny County Economic Development: Preliminary land development plan, Springdale Data Center | April 14, 2026, North Franklin Township Supervisors (Washington): Ordinance 3 of 2026, data centers as a conditional use. Adopted unanimously. May 5, 2026, Carroll Township Supervisors (Washington): Ordinance 2026-1, data centers. Adopted 3-0. May 6, 2026, Upper Burrell Township Supervisors (Westmoreland): Resolution 6-2026, a curative amendment pausing new data center approvals for up to 180 days. Adopted 3-0. June 9, 2026, South Strabane Township Supervisors (Washington): Zoning amendment with data center definitions and standards. Adopted 5-0. June 10, 2026, Findlay Township Supervisors (Allegheny): Ordinance 469, data centers as a conditional use. Adopted 3-0. June 15, 2026, Shippingport Borough Council: Aligned Phase 1 land development plan. Approved unanimously with conditions. June 17, 2026, Franklin Park Borough Council (Allegheny): Ordinance 697-2026, a data center overlay district. Enacted. June 19, 2026, Manor Township Supervisors (Armstrong): Ordinance 2026-2 on data centers. Adopted. June 22, 2026, Adams Township Supervisors (Butler): Zoning ordinance declared invalid in part for data centers, starting a curative amendment (Resolution 2026-09 followed on July 13). Approved, all in favor. June 22, 2026, Ford City Borough Council (Armstrong): Ordinance 766, standards for data centers and data center campuses. Adopted 6-0. June 29, 2026, Pulaski Township Supervisors (Lawrence): Ordinance 2-2026, data centers as a conditional use in the industrial district. Adopted, all in favor. |
| Q3 2026 | Pittsburgh metro. Big Beaver Borough: Preliminary land development plan, Switch PIT 01-03 Forward Township: Preliminary land development application, Misty Hollow Energy and Data Campus (date the applicant signed) Shippingport Borough: Phase 2 land development plans, Aligned (on file by this meeting, received in mid-August) | July 8, 2026, Center Township Supervisors (Butler): Resolution 2026-07-07, a data center curative amendment. Approved. July 9, 2026, California Borough Council (Washington): Ordinance 594, data centers as a conditional use in mixed-use and industrial districts. Adopted. July 13, 2026, Hopewell Township Supervisors (Washington): A data center zoning ordinance, after a public hearing. Adopted 3-0. July 15, 2026, Sewickley Township Supervisors (Westmoreland): Ordinance 6-2026, data centers as a conditional use. Enacted 2-0, one supervisor absent. July 20, 2026, Lancaster Township Supervisors (Butler): Zoning declared invalid for failing to provide for data centers, with a curative amendment proposed (Resolution 2026-16 followed on August 17). Carried 3-0. July 20, 2026, Canton Township Supervisors (Washington): Ordinance 3 of 26, data center definitions and standards. Adopted 3-0. July 21, 2026, Oakmont Borough Council (Allegheny): Ordinance O3-2026, data centers by special exception in the industrial district. Adopted unanimously. July 28, 2026, Chartiers Township Supervisors (Washington): Ordinance 424, data centers permitted only in the I-1 district. Enacted 3-0. August 3, 2026, Cecil Township Supervisors (Washington): Development ordinance declared invalid as exclusionary of data centers, with a curative amendment authorized. Approved 5-0. August 4, 2026, Big Beaver Borough Council (Beaver): Resolution 07-2026, a municipal curative amendment giving the borough 180 days to amend its zoning. Adopted 5-0. August 4, 2026, Connoquenessing Borough Council (Butler): A 90-day moratorium on data centers while council writes an ordinance. Passed by motion. August 5, 2026, Upper Burrell Township Supervisors: TECfusions Building J land development plan, upgrades to an existing building. Approved 3-0 with conditions. The record states no added power. August 12, 2026, Buffalo Township Supervisors (Butler): Resolution 2026-8, a municipal curative amendment on data centers. Approved unanimously. August 18, 2026, Governor of Pennsylvania: Executive Order 2026-05 on data centers over 25 MW. Signed, effective immediately. August 20, 2026, Jackson Township Supervisors (Butler): Ordinance 26-05, data centers and solar as conditional uses in the light industrial district. Adopted unanimously. August 25, 2026, Ligonier Township Supervisors (Westmoreland): Ordinance 2026-OR-01, zoning amendments including data centers. Adopted unanimously. August 31, 2026, Marianna Borough Council (Washington): Resolution 2 of 2026, a municipal curative amendment on data center zoning (August 31, 2026 minutes). Adopted 4-0. September 9, 2026, Charleroi Borough Council (Washington): A 180-day moratorium on data centers, which a later resolution says also declared the zoning invalid for data centers. Adopted unanimously. September 10, 2026, Franklin Township Supervisors (Beaver): Zoning declared substantively invalid for lacking data center rules, starting a municipal curative amendment. Carried 2-0. September 16, 2026, Allegheny County Economic Development: Review letter on the Springdale preliminary land development plan. The plan was found deficient on several points. September 16, 2026, Butler County Planning Commission: Review of Misty Hollow Energy and Data Campus, plan 26220. Comments released to the township. September 16, 2026, West Deer Township Supervisors (Allegheny): Ordinance 466, a data center ordinance. Adopted 3-1. September 17, 2026, Springhill Township Supervisors (Fayette): Ordinance 2026-6, data center definitions and standards, with a separate power plant ordinance. Passed. The minutes give no tally. September 21, 2026, Shippingport Borough Council: Aligned Phase 2 land development plan. Approved unanimously, contingent on permits from other agencies. September 22, 2026, Allegheny County Council: Ordinance 14044-26, barring data centers of 25 MW or more from county-owned parcels and buildings. Passed 14-0, one member absent. Awaiting the county executive's signature. |
Dates are the date each record gives for a filing: a borough receipt date, an applicant's signed application, or the first meeting at which a plan is recorded as on file. A site is listed in the quarter of each new filing for data center buildings or a planning case for the site. A later approval of the same filing is a decision, not a new filing. The Beaver County Planning Commission also reviewed Aligned's Phase 1 plan in 2025, in a month its annual report does not give, so that plan sits in no quarter.
What to watch next
- November 9, 2026. South Park Township supervisors hold a hearing on a data center zoning amendment. Published record.
- November 30, 2026. Written comments close on the Springdale data center's preliminary land development plan before Allegheny County. Published record.
- December 18, 2026. Big Beaver Borough Council's extended deadline to decide Switch's data center land development plan. Published record.
The records behind the findings
The quarter's filings, in detail (3)
Switch PIT 01-03, Big Beaver Borough
- Location
- 201 Pendale Road, the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Big Beaver Borough, Beaver County (parcels 53-103-0391.000 and 53-103-0389.000)
- Applicant and owner of record
- Switch, Ltd. The revised plans name Wampum 1 LLC as owner.
- Acres
- About 384, of which about 240 would be disturbed
- Square feet
- Three data center buildings of 215,750 gross square feet each, 647,250 in all, after a September revision. Two future buildings are shown.
- Power
- No megawatt figure on the record. The plans show a FirstEnergy substation and 75 emergency generators per building.
- What is proposed, as filed
- A preliminary land development plan for a site "to be used as a data center".
- Filing and status
- Preliminary land development plan before Big Beaver Borough. In review. Switch has given council until December 18, 2026 to decide. A state construction stormwater permit was sought on July 8.
- Filed
- July 7, 2026, received by the borough
- Records
- Borough engineer's review letter, September revision, Extension letter
Misty Hollow Energy and Data Campus, Forward Township
- Location
- 614 Prospect Road, Forward Township, Butler County
- Applicant and owner of record
- 614 Prospect Road LLC
- Acres
- 274.378
- Square feet
- A data center with a 1,000,000 square foot footprint, 1,050,000 square feet in all with an office and security building
- Power
- "300-MegaWatt on-site power generation", as filed. That is generating capacity, not a data center load.
- What is proposed, as filed
- "An Energy & Data Campus consisting of a data center with a 1,000,000 sf footprint, a 300-MegaWatt on-site power generation", with a wastewater treatment facility
- Filing and status
- Preliminary subdivision and land development application. The Butler County Planning Commission released its review comments on September 16. In township review.
- Filed
- Signed by the applicant on August 24, 2026. The township's receipt date is not on the posted record.
- Records
- Application, County planning commission minutes, draft, Township engineer's review
Aligned Project Phoenix Phase 2, Shippingport Borough
- Location
- The former Bruce Mansfield power plant and Shippingport Industrial Park, Shippingport Borough, Beaver County
- Applicant
- Aligned Data Centers, with Kimley-Horn as engineer
- What is proposed
- Phase 2 land development plans. The September 21 minutes describe the site as planned for three data center buildings, a warehouse and an on-site generation plant.
- Power
- No megawatt figure on the borough record
- Filing and status
- Approved unanimously on September 21, 2026, contingent on outstanding permits from other agencies. Phase 1 was approved on June 15.
- Filed
- Received by the borough engineer in mid-August 2026 and reported as submitted at the September 1 council meeting. The exact date is not on the record.
- Records
- September 1 minutes, September 21 minutes
Data center site projects with a record in the seven quarters, Q1 2025 to Q3 2026 (7)
| Site and records | Metro and authority | First filed | Permit first issued | Declared value | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switch PIT 01-03, Big Beaver / Preliminary land development plan September revision | Big Beaver Borough, Beaver County | July 7, 2026 | No decision on the record. Council deadline December 18, 2026 | Not stated | Three data center buildings of 215,750 gross sq ft each on about 384 acres, with two future buildings shown. |
| Misty Hollow Energy and Data Campus, Forward Township / Plan 26220 County review, September 16 | Forward Township, Butler County | Signed by the applicant August 24, 2026. On file by the September 16 county review | No permit on the record. Under review | Not stated | A data center with a 1,000,000 sq ft footprint and 300 MW of on-site generation on 274.378 acres. |
| Aligned Project Phoenix, Shippingport / Conditional use, Phase 1 and Phase 2 plans Conditional use on file, January 5 Conditional use approved, March 31 Phase 1 plan approved, June 15 Phase 2 plans on file, September 1 | Shippingport Borough, Beaver County | Conditional use on file by January 5, 2026. Phase 2 plans on file by September 1, 2026 | Conditional use approved March 31, 2026. Phase 1 plan approved June 15 and Phase 2 plan September 21, 2026, with conditions | Not stated | Three data center buildings, a warehouse and an on-site generation plant, as the borough minutes describe the site. |
| Springdale Data Center, former Cheswick plant / Conditional use and preliminary land development plan County land development plan, June 22, 2026 Council, December 16, 2025 | Springdale Borough and Allegheny County | August 29, 2025 | Conditional use approved December 16, 2025. Land development plan in county review | Not stated | One data center building of 565,000 gross sq ft and an ancillary building of about 200,000 sq ft on 47.2 acres. No power figure stated. |
| Starpointe, Hanover Township / Two conditional use applications Hearing continued to August 31 | Hanover Township, Washington County | On file by June 2, 2026 | No decision on the record. Hearings continued | Not stated | Seven one-story buildings of over 1.5 million sq ft in Phase 1, with a power generation facility. |
| Powder Mill Works, North Beaver and Mahoning / Preliminary land development plan Mahoning zoning board, news report | Mahoning and North Beaver townships, Lawrence County | June 8, 2026 | Found insufficient by Mahoning on June 9, 2026. Appeals denied by both zoning boards in September, as reported | Not stated | A data center campus. The minutes state no size. |
| Vantage Data Centers PA1, Shippingport / County comment letter Withdrawal, April 1, 2025 | Shippingport Borough, Beaver County | On file by the county comment letter of March 18, 2025 | Withdrawn, per the borough solicitor on April 1, 2025 | Not stated | Stormwater management and utility connections for a data center in Shippingport Industrial Park. |
A planning case or plan is not a permit. Where no record gives a filing date, the column says so.
Work at existing data centers (1)
| Record | Date | Work |
|---|---|---|
| TECfusions Building J, Upper Burrell Township / Land development plan Planning commission, June 16 | August 5, 2026 | Upgrades to an existing building at the former Alcoa technical center, with emergency generators and chillers. Approved 3-0 with conditions. The record states no added power. |
State air permit applications (2)
| Date | Facility and record | Status | What the record states |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2026 | Starpointe Power Generation Facility, Generate Capital PBC, Hanover Township / 63-01104A State data center permit register | Pending | Major facility plan approval under nonattainment new source review. The state data center permit register lists it under the Starpointe Data Center of Prime Data Centers. |
| April 13, 2026 | Aligned.AI PA Owner, Church Lane, Shippingport / 04-00953A | Pending | Plan approval for solid oxide fuel cells, eleven diesel emergency engines and 64 temporary generators. No megawatt figure. |
Air plan approvals for new data center sites in the state's data center permit register for the eight counties. In Allegheny County, the county Health Department issues air permits.
Reported
These proposals appear in public records or news coverage, but none has a dated filing for the site on the record in the seven quarters through September.
- Henderson Road, Elizabeth Township. PublicSource reported a campus of up to 28 buildings on 549 acres with about 1 GW of gas-fired power, from a developer's emails. The township's records show the approach in September and a town hall on October 13, and no filing.
- Saadia Holdings, Union Township, Lawrence County. WFMJ reported a conditional use application for a 135,000 square foot data center, discussed with the planning commission on September 21. No township record of the filing is posted.
- Fezzik Energy, Midland Borough. The state's data center permit register lists a proposed data center with no applications received.
- Zediker Station, South Strabane Township. The state register lists a proposed CNX data center with no applications. CNX told the supervisors on January 27, 2026 that no project is proposed.
- Near Gans, Springhill Township. The Herald-Standard reported that Nadara is exploring an 830-acre site that could house a data center. No filing is on the record.
- 71 Woodlawn Road, Aliquippa. A February 2025 legal notice records a preliminary opinion that a data center with on-site gas generation is a permitted use on 27.82 acres. The council vote on it is not on the posted record, and no plan has followed.
Coverage and method
Boundary: The Pittsburgh metro area as the federal government defined it in July 2023: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Indiana County, home of the Homer City site, and Greene County are outside it. Source: Census Bureau metro delineation files.
County and state bodies: Full means every posted record for the quarter was read, Partial means some meetings' records are not posted or only agendas are, Gap means no record for the quarter is posted. Municipal rows give the number of municipalities at Full / Partial / Gap in each quarter, from each one's governing body, planning commission and zoning board records. Allegheny, Armstrong, Washington and Westmoreland counties publish no list of the plan reviews their planning agencies make, so the municipal records stand in for them.
| Authority | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania DEP data center permit register | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Pennsylvania Bulletin notices (DEP, PUC) | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Pennsylvania DEP permit records (eFACTS) | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Allegheny County Council | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Allegheny County Economic Development, planning division | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Partial | Partial |
| Allegheny County Health Department, air permits | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Partial | Gap |
| Allegheny County Conservation District | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| City of Pittsburgh Planning Commission | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| City of Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| City of Pittsburgh building permits | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Armstrong County Planning Commission | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Beaver County Planning Commission | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Gap |
| Butler County Planning Commission | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Fayette County Planning, Zoning and Community Development | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Fayette County Zoning Hearing Board | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Lawrence County Planning Commission | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Washington County Planning Commission | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Westmoreland County Planning and Development | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Beaver County Conservation District | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Butler County Conservation District | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Washington County Conservation District | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Partial |
| Westmoreland County Conservation District | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Lawrence County Conservation District | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Armstrong Conservation District | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial |
| Fayette County Conservation District | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap | Gap |
| Allegheny County municipalities (130) | 97 / 15 / 18 | 97 / 15 / 18 | 96 / 18 / 16 | 93 / 21 / 16 | 99 / 17 / 14 | 90 / 24 / 16 | 67 / 45 / 18 |
| Armstrong County municipalities (45) | 12 / 2 / 31 | 11 / 2 / 32 | 12 / 0 / 33 | 10 / 2 / 33 | 9 / 3 / 33 | 7 / 5 / 33 | 4 / 6 / 35 |
| Beaver County municipalities (54) | 25 / 12 / 17 | 24 / 12 / 18 | 22 / 14 / 18 | 25 / 10 / 19 | 29 / 9 / 16 | 25 / 11 / 18 | 20 / 15 / 19 |
| Butler County municipalities (57) | 30 / 5 / 22 | 30 / 5 / 22 | 32 / 3 / 22 | 30 / 6 / 21 | 34 / 3 / 20 | 32 / 5 / 20 | 27 / 10 / 20 |
| Fayette County municipalities (43) | 5 / 13 / 25 | 6 / 13 / 24 | 4 / 13 / 26 | 4 / 14 / 25 | 6 / 13 / 24 | 5 / 12 / 26 | 4 / 14 / 25 |
| Lawrence County municipalities (27) | 12 / 2 / 13 | 13 / 1 / 13 | 11 / 4 / 12 | 11 / 6 / 10 | 14 / 3 / 10 | 14 / 3 / 10 | 7 / 11 / 9 |
| Washington County municipalities (66) | 34 / 5 / 27 | 34 / 3 / 29 | 34 / 6 / 26 | 33 / 10 / 23 | 40 / 5 / 21 | 37 / 5 / 24 | 26 / 15 / 25 |
| Westmoreland County municipalities (65) | 32 / 8 / 25 | 32 / 9 / 24 | 32 / 9 / 24 | 31 / 12 / 22 | 34 / 9 / 22 | 32 / 8 / 25 | 29 / 12 / 24 |
A site is one address or campus. It is listed in the quarter of each new filing for data center buildings or a planning case for the site: a conditional use, a land development plan, a rezoning for the project or a curative amendment. A later approval of the same filing is a decision, not a new filing. Aligned's Phase 2 plans are a new filing for the Shippingport campus.
Work at an existing data center is listed as a site only when its record states new power with a rating. TECfusions' Building J states none and is listed separately. Repairs, replacements, renewals and power work whose record names no data center are left out. A planning commission review, an agenda item or a presentation is not an approval, and draft minutes are labelled as drafts.
Pennsylvania municipalities run their own zoning, and many post their minutes late or not at all. Four of the eight counties publish no list of their planning reviews, so the municipal records stand in for them. A blank in the municipal rows is unknown, not zero.
No permit or plan here shows that space is available to lease.
Sources and revisions
Every figure links to the public record it came from: a county or municipal record, a land development application, a state permit record or a Pennsylvania Bulletin notice. News coverage is named as such and never stands in for a record.
This is a provisional interim edition. Its figures may change as authorities post more records, and later corrections will be listed here with the date and reason. Revisions: none yet.
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