Newport Ridge Data Center, 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.
4 events, November 14, 2025 to September 14, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 6 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
2025 1 event
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(content date)
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 line that is not an event of its own
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
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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waiting on permits
Newport Township issued zoning permits for 15 closed loop data center buildings powered by three natural gas generation facilities, with seven sited in the mixed use zone and eight in the industrial zone. citizensvoice.com (opens in a new tab) news outlet
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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: 2 lines that are not events of their own
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(the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Entry
The Pennsylvania DEP's Data Center Permit Tracker lists the project as proposed, with no permit applications received, as of October 7, 2026. [1]
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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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For researchers
- Stage
- proposed
- Events on the timeline
- 4
- Under the months
- 6
- Stage changes
- 1
- Decisions
- 8
- Statements
- 0
- Figures
- 0
- Entries and decisions under the months
- 6