(STATE COLLEGE, PENN.) Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.
I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also a native of Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. My hometown has drawn national attention because of proposals for multiple data centers that would cover 14% of its area.
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