3+ week, 4+ day ago   (672+ words) Since the proverbial gold rush for data centers dawned in the commonwealth early last year, leaders and residents have been forced to fight against big business using and abusing our resources for profit yet again. Nobody wants small towns being…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1249+ words) Just a fraction of the data center campuses proposed in Northeast Pennsylvania will actually materialize, one of the industry’s leading advocacy groups believes. “It is going to depend on the individual players themselves, but I do think you can safely…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (510+ words) By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer Good news for people who regret the Gmail address they came up with when they registered for an account: Google is now letting users change it. Google started quietly rolling out the change late…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (368+ words) Today is Friday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2026. There are 272 days left in the year. In 1860, the first Pony Express mail delivery rides began, one heading west from St. Joseph, Missouri, and one heading east from Sacramento, California. In 1936, Bruno Richard…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (282+ words) The Greater Hazleton Chamber will host an educational program — “Red Carpet 101: Data Centers and Energy Impacts” — 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. April 1 at Sand Springs Country Club in Drums. The event includes a buffet breakfast and offers business professionals, and community…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (847+ words) PLAINS TWP. — Data centers are poised to consume more electricity than Northeast Pennsylvania can deliver. “We need generation, and we need it now,” Shelby Linton-Keddie of PPL Electric Utilities said at a data center conference that Penn’s Northeast held here…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (234+ words) A Barnesville man was found to have cut 150 feet of copper wire from a Verizon telephone line along Dessen Drive, West Hazleton, near the Pennsylvania State Police Troop N barracks. Daniel Igo, 38, is being charged with theft by unlawful taking,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) A panel of guests will join State Rep. Jamie Walsh, R-117, for a town hall meeting about data centers on Feb. 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Sugarloaf Twp. Fire Hall. Guests will talk about their research and take questions from the audience. Walsh,…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1742+ words) HAZLE TWP. — With 15 data center buildings on 1,306 acres and the electric needs of a city, Project Hazelnut is big. But when considering whether to approve permits for Hazelnut, residents asked state regulators and the developer to look at the bigger…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (647+ words) A bill calling for a model ordinance for data centers drew support from Pennsylvania Association of Boroughs, but a township group said the proposal has been made too late to help. House Bill 2151 instructs the Center for Local Government Services…...