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Hannah Frances Johansson profiles Emilia Doda, whose one-person civic-tech project (trackdatacenters.com) now lists 52+ active and 53+ proposed projects statewide — including parcels in Westmoreland and Armstrong Counties.

53 proposed centers, 52 already active, $2 billion projected state revenue loss by 2031 from the data-center sales-tax exemption. PJM's 2024 capacity auction prices rose nearly 800%.

4.5 GW Homer City Energy Campus on the 3,200-acre former coal plant site in Indiana County. Knighthead Capital ~75% owner; GE Vernova 7HA.02 turbines; $10B initial investment. The hyperscale customer remains undisclosed.

Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and Sierra Club appeal DEP's air-quality plan approval to the Environmental Hearing Board. Right-to-Know records surfaced a DEP staffer describing the project as 'concierge level of service' to HCR.

Hurdle pairs Homer City with the 2022 EQT frac-out that contaminated resident Liz Pebley's well with methane, arsenic and barium. The chain-of-custody argument: more gas-fired data centers means more wells, means more frac-outs.

CNX and JLL market 1,500 acres at Zediker Station in South Strabane Township for 500–700 MW of hyperscale capacity, on a 'remediated mine gas' blend the developers describe as carbon-neutral. Penn's Danny Cullenward calls the underlying accounting a 'gimmick.'

Penn's Danny Cullenward and Princeton's Wilson Ricks explain that CNX's 'remediated mine gas' methodology could let only ~25% of feedstock come from mine gas while qualifying for the full 45V hydrogen tax credit — 'potentially the most generous tax credit in U.S. energy policy history' flowing to a fossil-fuel production process.

PJM's 2027/28 auction cleared at $333.44/MW-day — third consecutive record-high — and fell 6,623 MW short of the 20% reserve margin for the first time in history. PJM EVP Stu Bresler said the 5,250 MW load forecast increase is 'almost entirely driven by data centers.'

Monitoring Analytics — PJM's independent market monitor — finds data centers drove $6.5B of $16.4B in December 2025 auction costs, with $6.2B tied to facilities not yet built. Across three auctions: $21.3B / 45% of $47.2B in cleared capacity costs.

FERC voted 2-1 to reject PJM's amended ISA expanding AWS behind-the-meter draw at Susquehanna nuclear from 300 MW to 480 MW (path to 960 MW). Commissioners Christie and See cited cost-shift to ratepayers; Chairman Phillips dissented.

After FERC's November 2024 rejection, Talen and AWS restructured the deal as a 1,920 MW 'front-of-the-meter' PPA through 2042 — a relabeling that takes the ~$18B arrangement outside FERC's behind-the-meter review entirely. Phased to 1.68–1.92 GW by 2032.

Emails obtained by organizer Colby Wesner show Amazon was granted NDA-bound early access to PA's Fast Track / SPEED permitting program in April 2025 — months before the program was publicly available. Real estate developer Brian O'Neill lobbied to impose a $4B bond on anyone challenging a $2B project's zoning approval.

WV HB 2014 was signed April 30, 2025 — barring counties and municipalities from regulating certified data centers 'in any way.' A 10,000-acre Tucker County campus filed its air permit the same day the bill was introduced. Tax revenue: 50% state income-tax-cut fund / 30% host county / 10% per capita to other counties.

House Democrats passed a four-bill regulatory package (HB 1834, 2150, 2151, 2246). Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R-Indiana) is holding them, preferring a 'holistic' approach. Pittman's district contains Homer City.

TECfusions has acquired the 1,395-acre former Alcoa/Arconic R&D site for a campus targeting up to 3 GW — roughly three times the peak load of Three Mile Island. TensorWave is the first tenant. Sen. Katie Muth is drafting a moratorium bill.

Six data center campuses planned across 14% of Archbald borough (Lackawanna Co.). Property lines of 'development-interested' landowners literally determined the overlay district boundaries. Buffer zones were shrunk from 1,000 to 300 yards. Valley View Estates mobile home park is being evicted April 15, 2026.

Statewide poll (n=836, ±4.7) finds bipartisan opposition: Republicans 53/28, Democrats 81/12, independents 67/22. Women oppose 75–11; men 61–29.

The PA Data Center Resistance Facebook group grew from dozens to 12,000+ members between January and May 2026. Karen Feridun, 19 years organizing: 'I have never seen the kind of response where everybody is opposed.'