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Data centers in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania: 1 project mapped
Lebanon County's first big data center proposal lasted about a month. In April 2026 Inch & Co., through a joint venture with Eastern Land & Resources called 1235 Martina Drive Owner LLC, asked South Annville Township to rezone about 49 acres of commercial land to industrial for a $1.7 billion campus of five data centers on U.S. Route 422 just west of Mount Pleasant Road, beside an already approved 3-million-square-foot DHL complex. Development vice president Joe Eisenhauer described buildings with 50-foot walls, closed-loop cooling with air-cooled chillers, noise of 40 to 50 decibels, 50 to 100 jobs, and a possible deal to use treated effluent from the Annville sewer plant; the plan also required realigning Mount Pleasant Road. The township solicitor had advised that simply banning data centers would be illegal, Eisenhauer said, so the company was helping draft an ordinance.
The opposition came fast. When Eisenhauer briefed county commissioners on April 15, the room was packed mostly with protesters, and chairman Mike Kuhn allowed public comment even though the commissioners have no vote on it. Roberta Gerhart said 3,200 people live within a mile of the site and asked what living near existing data centers has done to people. One South Lebanon resident who had worked in data centers for two decades spoke in favor, citing jobs for young people. The township Planning Commission voted against recommending the rezoning, a petition passed 500 signatures, and in early May the developer's lawyers wrote to the South Annville supervisors that it had "decided to no longer pursue the development of a data center in South Annville Township." One organizer told RealClearPennsylvania's columnist that while many organizers were liberals, many of their supporters were Republicans; the columnist described the meetings as spirited but civil.
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Other townships are writing rules instead. On September 14 North Annville Township's supervisors unanimously adopted an ordinance allowing data centers only as a conditional use in its manufacturing district along the railroad and Route 422, on lots of at least 100 acres with no more than half covered, buildings no taller than 50 feet including rooftop equipment, and required traffic and sound studies. "A township can't exclude a use," township solicitor Paul Bametzreider said, adding that "it's unconstitutional to exclude a certain use from your municipality." He said North Lebanon, Union and Jackson townships have written similar ordinances.
At the state level, the Pennsylvania House passed bills in June letting municipalities adopt 180-day data center pauses and ending the data center sales tax exemption, which await the Senate. What comes next: no new data center application in Lebanon County has been publicly reported; the county's townships continue adopting data center ordinances.
Data center projects on record in Lebanon County
Grouped by the town each site sits in. The report above may name projects that have no record here yet.
South Annville Township1
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Annville Data CenterSouth Annville Township | Inch & Company | Withdrawn | Not reported |
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