Amazon Luzerne Data Center (Susquehanna Campus), in order
What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.
5 events, June 11, 2024 to September 1, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 5 statements, 1 figure from another source and 5 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Pennsylvania.
A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.
Stages
2024 1 event
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waiting on permits
The Pennsylvania DEP received the project's first permit application on June 11, 2024; its tracker lists Phase 1 as DEP review complete and Phase 2 as permits under review (45 permits: 36 issued, 5 pending, 4 not yet submitted). [1]
2025 1 event
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Decision · Hazle Township (city)
Hazle Township Supervisors voted 3-0 on November 14, 2025 to deny land development approval for Project Hazelnut standardspeaker.com (opens in a new tab)
2026 3 events
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Decision · Hazle Township (city)
Hazle Township supervisors passed a 180 day freeze on new data center applications on June 8, 2026, pausing Project Hazelnut while officials rewrite zoning rules thecooldown.com (opens in a new tab)
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(the weekday its sentence names, the last before the report; filed under Sep 1, 2026)
Decision · Salem Township (city)
Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend township supervisors approve expansion of data center overlay district for third project despite court stay order thecentersquare.com (opens in a new tab)
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Also in August 2026: 1 figure from another source and 1 line that is not an event of its own
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Decision · Salem Township (city)
Salem Township Board of Supervisors scheduled to meet Wednesday to decide on data center overlay zone expansion timesleader.com (opens in a new tab)
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Figure · Times Leader
1,000 jobs: Amazon project expected to support approximately 1,000 permanent high skilled tech jobs Times Leader (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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being built
Amazon's data center project in Salem Township is in construction. [4]
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Also in September 2026: 3 lines that are not events of their own
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Decision · Luzerne County (county)
Plains Township to host hearing on AI data center zoning map changes to accommodate data centers on September 22 in Luzerne County paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
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Decision · Salem Township (city)
DEP published notice inviting comments on NPDES Water Quality Permit for Amazon Data Services ADS Berwick Data Center in Salem Township, Luzerne County paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
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Decision · Hazle Township (city)
Hazle Township's government rejected the data center project on zoning grounds and placed a temporary moratorium on data center construction breitbart.com (opens in a new tab)
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Also in October 2026: 5 statements and 1 line that is not an event of its own
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(said in the source itself)
Statement · Benjamin Hayes, Watershed Sciences and Engineering
Hayes says data center impacts can reach beyond the companies building the facilities, potentially affecting neighbors and taxpayers through electricity costs and the availability of public water. WITF (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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Statement · Benjamin Hayes, Watershed Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Benjamin Hayes, program director of Watershed Sciences and Engineering, says many large data centers use water to cool their equipment. WITF (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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Statement · Brian R. King, Bucknell University
King says Pennsylvania's energy resources and location near major East Coast cities make it appealing to companies developing AI data centers, and the rapid expansion of AI is contributing to growing energy demand. WITF (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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(said in the source itself)
Statement · Brian R. King, Bucknell University
Brian R. King, an associate professor of computer science at Bucknell University, says data centers house powerful computers used to train and operate AI models, relying on graphics processing units that require substantial amounts of electricity. WITF (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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(said in the source itself)
Statement · Benjamin Hayes, Watershed Sciences and Engineering
Hayes argues that communities need to consider how multiple data center projects could affect the same watershed or power supply, rather than evaluating each proposal in isolation. WITF (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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Decision · Hazle Township (city)
Hazle Township enacted a municipal moratorium on the data center project theguardian.com (opens in a new tab)
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On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.
For researchers
- Stage
- being built
- Events on the timeline
- 5
- Under the months
- 11
- Stage changes
- 2
- Decisions
- 8
- Statements
- 5
- Figures
- 1
- Entries and decisions under the months
- 5