Project Atlas
South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, PADeveloper: Edged US / CDE AcquisitionsCensus GEOID 42077
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Power, Land, Buildings, Water
A data center project in South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, listed on the Pennsylvania DEP's Data Center Permit Tracker. It is waiting on permits, since January 28, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 78 other published records in Pennsylvania
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- State permit status
- Permits under review the state's permit register, as of October 7, 2026, last verified October 23, 2026
- [1] gis.dep.pa.gov
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Buildings, Power it would draw, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| How much power it needs | ||||
| How much water it would use | ||||
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Edged US / CDE Acquisitions | as stated by the source | [1] gis.dep.pa.gov (opens in a new tab) | October 23, 2026 |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | ||||
| Where its power comes from | ||||
| Grid connection | ||||
| How it is cooled | ||||
| State permit status | Permits under review | the state's permit register, as of October 7, 2026, last verified October 23, 2026 | [1] gis.dep.pa.gov (opens in a new tab) | October 23, 2026 |
A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would draw A utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Lehigh County and South Whitehall Township about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh County | South Whitehall Township in Lehigh County facing community opposition to a data center proposal | cbsnews.com (opens in a new tab) |
What happened
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· Status: permitting (content date)
The Pennsylvania DEP received the project's first permit application on January 28, 2026; its tracker lists the project as permits under review (6 permits: 3 pending, 1 received, 2 not yet submitted).
The site
The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA facility record.
- Where
- South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Verdantas and Prologis data center, Allen Township, 5.0 mi
- Emaus Ave Warehouse, 6.2 mi
- TierPoint Lehigh Valley Data Center, 8.7 mi
- TierPoint Bethlehem Data Center, 8.7 mi
- TierPoint Allentown TekPark Data Center, 9.5 mi
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Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Project Atlas?
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Edged US / CDE Acquisitions is the developer, gis.dep.pa.gov (opens in a new tab). No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Project Atlas say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Project Atlas stand today?
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It is waiting on permits, since January 28, 2026. The newest entry: The Pennsylvania DEP received the project's first permit application on January 28, 2026; its tracker lists the project as permits under review (6 permits: 3 pending, 1 received, 2 not yet submitted). [1]
What has South Whitehall Township or Lehigh County decided about it?
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Lehigh County: South Whitehall Township in Lehigh County facing community opposition to a data center proposal (reported September 16, 2026, cbsnews.com (opens in a new tab)). 1 event is on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- Pennsylvania DEP Data Center Permit Tracker (opens in a new tab), Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, October 7, 2026
1 source on file.
About this data
Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page. Report a correction · Send a tip about Project Atlas
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Project Atlas", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/project-atlas-south-whitehall-township-pa. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- reviewed in depth
- Tags
- Reviewed in depth
- Coordinates
- 40.643472, -75.537083
- How the location is known
- Location from an EPA facility record.
- Location source
- https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/
- Coordinate source
- the Pennsylvania DEP Data Center Permit Tracker's point for the site
- Location source number
- [1]
- Location last verified
- October 13, 2026
- Published
- October 13, 2026
- Last verified
- October 23, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How capacity was disclosed, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Capacity, if disclosed, Rating of the county's rows