Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, adopted a data-center moratorium on October 1, 2025. Its status in this snapshot is in force.
The record reads: "Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan asked Governor Shapiro and the PA General Assembly for a three-year statewide moratorium on new large-scale data center approvals. The county alone has at least 11 proposed data center campuses… (datacentertracker.org)."
Details
| Action | Class | Status | Date | MW threshold | Scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moratorium | restriction | in force | October 1, 2025 | county-wide | datacentertracker.org |
Jurisdiction type: county. County: Lackawanna County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.
Elsewhere in Lackawanna County
Pennsylvania context
Pennsylvania has 50 documented local actions across 48 jurisdictions in this snapshot. There is no statewide restriction, incentive rollback, or large-load tariff on record for Pennsylvania in this snapshot.
A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.