How big is Project Hazelnut?

The record has one measure of its size: 1,282 acres (the developer's figure, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building Project Hazelnut?

NorthPoint Development is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

Who will use Project Hazelnut?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

What has been offered to the community around Project Hazelnut?

Payment to a government from NorthPoint Development: $7 million a year for 15 years, $105 million in all, to “Hazle Township”, on the condition “as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut” (offered), source; Community fund from NorthPoint Development: $15 million in all, to “local institutions such as the community college, the YMCA, and other organizations that serve Township residents”, on the condition “as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut” (offered), source; and Payment to each household from NorthPoint Development: $10,000 each, $45 million in all, to “Every eligible household in Hazle Township”, on the condition “paid upon the issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the first Project Hazelnut building” (offered), source. Each is shown with its condition under What the developer has offered.

How much power and water does Project Hazelnut say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Project Hazelnut stand today?

It is waiting on permits, since November 10, 2025. The newest entry, November 10, 2025: NorthPoint Development's preliminary and final major land development plan for Project Hazelnut, 15 data center buildings with ancillary buildings, parking, utilities, landscaping and stormwater on a 1,282 acre industrial technology campus north of Humboldt Industrial Park North, was before the Hazle Township Board of Supervisors on November 10, 2025, which tabled it. [3]

What has Hazle Township or Luzerne County decided about it?

Luzerne County: Plains Township to host hearing on AI data center zoning map changes to accommodate data centers on September 22 in Luzerne County (reported September 17, 2026, source); and Salem Township (rated closed): Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend township supervisors approve expansion of data center overlay district for third project despite court stay order (reported September 1, 2026, source). 3 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

What is still unknown about Project Hazelnut?

Not disclosed by any source on file: 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, who is constructing it, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Waiting on permits Built from one source

Project Hazelnut

NorthPoint Development proposes 15 data center buildings, a substation, a switchyard and four ancillary buildings on a 1,282 acre campus north of Humboldt Industrial Park North in Hazle Township, Luzerne County. The township supervisors denied its land development plan. It is waiting on permits, since November 10, 2025.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified September 29, 2026 · 8 sources, 4 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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. An offer to the community is shown as its source states it, with its condition, and never added to another.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land: 1,282 acres; the developer's figure [2]
Power it would draw: Not disclosed
Water: Not disclosed
Who leads it: NorthPoint Development; as stated by the source [2]
Who would use it: Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs: Not disclosed
Tax each year: Not disclosed

Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

Field	Value	Who says so	Source	Last verified
How much power it needs	Not disclosed
How much water it would use	Not disclosed
How loud it would be	Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs	Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year	Not disclosed

The record's fields

Field	Value	Who says so	Source	Last verified
Who is building it	NorthPoint Development	as stated by the source	[2] projecthazelnut.com	September 29, 2026
Who is constructing it	Not disclosed
How much land	1,282 acres	the developer's figure	[2] projecthazelnut.com	September 29, 2026
Where its power comes from	Not disclosed
Grid connection	Not disclosed
How it is cooled	Not disclosed

Jobs once it runs, also reported: 900 jobs, 2026 (NorthPoint Development: Project Hazelnut would create over 900 permanent operational jobs) .

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 useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Luzerne County and Hazle 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
Reported September 17, 2026	Luzerne 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
Reported September 1, 2026	Salem Township closed	Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend township supervisors approve expansion of data center overlay district for third project despite court stay order	thecentersquare.com
Reported August 22, 2026	Salem Township closed	Salem Township Board of Supervisors scheduled to meet Wednesday to decide on data center overlay zone expansion	timesleader.com

What happened

November 10, 2025 · Status: permitting (content date)

NorthPoint Development's preliminary and final major land development plan for Project Hazelnut, 15 data center buildings with ancillary buildings, parking, utilities, landscaping and stormwater on a 1,282 acre industrial technology campus north of Humboldt Industrial Park North, was before the Hazle Township Board of Supervisors on November 10, 2025, which tabled it. [3]

The full Project Hazelnut timeline, in order

The site

Where in Hazle Township is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Hazle Township, not a building, and the outline is Luzerne County.

This record: Proposed, ringed
data center
Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
Smaller pins: 19 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.

Where: Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
How exactly it is located: Town level, the center of the city
The parcel: No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes: Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records: Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Comparisons

2 metrics with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Construction jobs

1 figure, 1 source

1,300 construction jobsDocument's figure

NorthPoint Development, Jun 24, 2026

Show each source's words

1,300 construction jobs, NorthPoint Development: Project Hazelnut would create more than 1,300 construction jobs over a six year development period

Permanent jobs

1 figure, 1 source

Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

900 jobsCompany

NorthPoint Development, Jun 24, 2026

Show each source's words

900 jobs, NorthPoint Development: Project Hazelnut would create over 900 permanent operational jobs

What the developer has offered

3 offers, from NorthPoint Development

What the companies behind this project have offered or agreed to give the people and governments around the site, newest first. How offers are recorded.

Payment to a government offered

NorthPoint Development offers Hazle Township $105 million over 15 years, $7 million a year, to support a township police force and lower the trash collection fees residents pay. [1]

Offered by

NorthPoint Development

To

“Hazle Township”

Amount

$7 million a year for 15 years, $105 million in all

On what condition

“as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut”, in the source's words

Date

June 24, 2026

Kind government_payment, recipients municipality, condition other, status offered, date basis: content date; the amount in the source's words: “$105 Million Long-Term Township Investment: A 15-year commitment of $7 million per year in funding for Hazle Township”.
Community fund offered

NorthPoint Development offers a $15 million community support fund for workforce development, educational training, arts and recreation, and youth programs, to benefit local institutions such as the community college and the YMCA. [1]

Offered by

NorthPoint Development

To

“local institutions such as the community college, the YMCA, and other organizations that serve Township residents”

Amount

$15 million in all

On what condition

“as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut”, in the source's words

Date

June 24, 2026

Kind community_fund, recipients other, condition other, status offered, date basis: content date; the amount in the source's words: “$15 Million Community Support Fund”.
Payment to each household offered

NorthPoint Development offers a $10,000 grant to every eligible household in Hazle Township from a $45 million resident grant fund, paid upon the issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the first Project Hazelnut building, which it anticipates in late 2027. [1]

Offered by

NorthPoint Development

To

“Every eligible household in Hazle Township”

Amount

$10,000 each, $45 million in all

On what condition

“paid upon the issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the first Project Hazelnut building”, in the source's words

Date

June 24, 2026

Kind household_payment, recipients households, condition certificate_of_occupancy, status offered, date basis: content date; the amount in the source's words: “$45 Million Resident Grant Fund: Every eligible household in Hazle Township will receive a $10,000 grant”.

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Questions about this project

8 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Project Hazelnut?: The record has one measure of its size: 1,282 acres (the developer's figure, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.
Who is building Project Hazelnut?: NorthPoint Development is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Project Hazelnut?: Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
What has been offered to the community around Project Hazelnut?: Payment to a government from NorthPoint Development: $7 million a year for 15 years, $105 million in all, to “Hazle Township”, on the condition “as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut” (offered), source; Community fund from NorthPoint Development: $15 million in all, to “local institutions such as the community college, the YMCA, and other organizations that serve Township residents”, on the condition “as part of its revised proposal for Project Hazelnut” (offered), source; and Payment to each household from NorthPoint Development: $10,000 each, $45 million in all, to “Every eligible household in Hazle Township”, on the condition “paid upon the issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the first Project Hazelnut building” (offered), source. Each is shown with its condition under What the developer has offered.
How much power and water does Project Hazelnut say it needs?: Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Project Hazelnut stand today?: It is waiting on permits, since November 10, 2025. The newest entry, November 10, 2025: NorthPoint Development's preliminary and final major land development plan for Project Hazelnut, 15 data center buildings with ancillary buildings, parking, utilities, landscaping and stormwater on a 1,282 acre industrial technology campus north of Humboldt Industrial Park North, was before the Hazle Township Board of Supervisors on November 10, 2025, which tabled it. [3]
What has Hazle Township or Luzerne County decided about it?: Luzerne County: Plains Township to host hearing on AI data center zoning map changes to accommodate data centers on September 22 in Luzerne County (reported September 17, 2026, source); and Salem Township (rated closed): Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend township supervisors approve expansion of data center overlay district for third project despite court stay order (reported September 1, 2026, source). 3 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about Project Hazelnut?: Not disclosed by any source on file: 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, who is constructing it, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

NorthPoint Development Enhances Historic $165 Million Community Benefits Commitment for Project Hazelnut, Aligning with GRID Standards, NorthPoint Development, June 24, 2026
Project Hazelnut, NorthPoint Development
Hazle Township Board of Supervisors, meeting minutes, October to December 2025, Hazle Township
Hazle Township Board of Supervisors, meeting minutes, June to August 2026, Hazle Township

Reporting

A developer offered every household in a Pennsylvania town $10,000 for a data center, and many still said no, TechSpot, September 28, 2026, local outlet
AI Data Center Developer Promises $10K Checks To Residents, Locals Call It A Bribe, HotHardware, September 28, 2026, local outlet
Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns, Tom's Hardware, September 28, 2026, local outlet
Everyone in a Pennsylvania town gets $10K if data center is built – but they’re still pushing back: report, New York Post, September 28, 2026, local outlet

8 sources on file.

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Slug: project-hazelnut-hazle-township-pa
Status value: permitting
Stage: Proposed
Tier: skeleton
Tags: skeleton
Place id: us/pa/luzerne-county/hazle-township
Coordinates: 40.9584859, -76.0140621
Location precision: city
Location source: Census Bureau TIGERweb, the internal point of Hazle township (county subdivision 4207933376); no source gives the site
Coordinate source: census tigerweb county subdivision internal point
Location source number: Not disclosed
Location last verified: September 28, 2026
EPA registry id: Not disclosed
Use type values: not_disclosed
Tenancy value: not_disclosed
Cooling type value: not_disclosed
Capacity basis: not_disclosed
Water basis: not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis: developer_estimate
Interconnection value: not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed: Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows: Closed
Published: 2026-09-28
Last verified: 2026-09-29