Olyphant passes six-month pause on data center development

At its meeting on Tuesday, the Olyphant Borough Council in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, voted 4-3 to implement a six-month moratorium on data center development. This decision superseded a planned vote on a zoning amendment that would have limited data centers to approximately 1,000 acres of industrial-zoned land near the Triboro Industrial Park. Borough Council President Jimmy Baldan, who voted against the moratorium, expressed concerns that the six-month pause would leave the borough without any existing data center limitations, potentially making it vulnerable during the interim period.