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Data center campus · Route 903 and Maury Road, Penn Forest Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Penn Forest Township data center site

Proposed as of March 2, 2026

Penn Forest Township wrote a data center overlay over about 500 residential acres on Route 903 and Maury Road, where Mele Brothers Realty has bought land and challenged the zoning, though no plans have been filed. Also known as: Unnamed Data Center (Hendricks) (DEP tracker).

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PowerNot statedNot reported in the records found

Who is behind it

ProjectPenn Forest Township data center siteAlso: Unnamed Data Center (Hendricks) (DEP tracker)
Developer and teamMele Brothers Realty
End userNot found in the recordsNot yet named in any record or credited report we have found.

The record, newest first

  1. The state Department of Environmental Protection's data center permit tracker lists the project as proposed, with no permit applications received. (Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 31, 2026; Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 31, 2026)

  2. A separate resident challenge to the ordinance was heard and continued; the township argued the board lacks jurisdiction until a data center application is filed. (Times News Online, Aug. 19, 2026)

  3. Times News reported Mele Brothers' challenge seeks site-specific relief; the company had bought land in the area for more than $2 million. (Times News Online, March 9, 2026)

  4. Supervisors unanimously adopted a curative amendment creating a data center overlay district; Mele Brothers' validity challenge, filed earlier, was still pending. (WVIA News, March 3, 2026; WVIA News, Feb. 28, 2026)

  5. Mele Brothers' lawyer said the project was in the feasibility stage. (WVIA News, Feb. 28, 2026)

  6. At a special township meeting, a prospective buyer said he was under agreement to buy 750 acres at Route 903 and Maury Road for a data center and had filed nothing yet. (Times News Online, Sept. 11, 2025)

Conflicts and open questions

  • Same or separate campus: the September 2025 buyer (named Hendricks in Times News, matching DEP's 'Hendricks' entry #10000051) and Mele Brothers both point to the Route 903 / Maury Road area, so they are treated as one campus. No source states the link outright.
  • Acreage: 750 acres (prospective buyer, 2025) and an overlay of about 500 acres (WVIA); acres left empty.
  • The Sept. 8, 2025 date is inferred from the Sept. 11 story ('Monday evening'). The outcome of Mele Brothers' March 23 hearing was not found.

The full record

Status note
The township created a data center overlay over about 500 acres in this area; no data center application had been filed, and validity challenges are pending before the zoning board.
Evidence
Primary public records
Size class
Under 50 MW (outside main scope; kept for completeness)
Map position approximate, from the reported address or area. Updated Oct. 17, 2026.