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Data centers in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania

Upper Merion has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Upper Merion limits new data centers. The latest decision on the record: Upper Merion Township board rejected proposal for five data centers totaling over 4.6 million square feet relying on natural gas turbines and diesel backup generators, September 13, 2026. Montgomery County's own decisions are on the Montgomery County page.

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The data center in Upper Merion

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  1. Reported Built from one source

    Upper Merion data center

    Upper Merion, Montgomery County

    Latest, reported August 17, 2026: MLP Ventures proposal includes closed loop water system cbsnews.com national outlet

    Land
    Not disclosed
    Power
    Not disclosed
    Water
    Not disclosed
    Tenant
    Not disclosed

Where

1 data center in Upper Merion: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.

The outline is Upper Merion's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.

What Upper Merion has decided

1 body, 2 decisions on the record

What the city has done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.

Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.

  1. Upper Merioncity

    Upper Merion Township board rejected proposal for five data centers totaling over 4.6 million square feet relying on natural gas turbines and diesel backup generators, reported September 13, 2026.

    northeasttimes.com query feed

    restrictive
    2 acts on this row
    1. denial

      Upper Merion Township board rejected proposal for five data centers totaling over 4.6 million square feet relying on natural gas turbines and diesel backup generators

      northeasttimes.com query feed

      Also reported by 1 source
    2. litigation

      Developer sued Upper Merion Township planning commission and board of supervisors; vote scheduled for Thursday pending court order

      cbsnews.com national outlet

    Last verified September 13, 2026.

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What happened

  1. · Upper Merion

    Denial: Upper Merion Township board rejected proposal for five data centers totaling over 4.6 million square feet relying on natural gas turbines and diesel backup generators northeasttimes.com query feed

  2. · Upper Merion

    Litigation: Developer sued Upper Merion Township planning commission and board of supervisors; vote scheduled for Thursday pending court order cbsnews.com national outlet

  3. · Upper Merion data center

    Now reported: MLP Ventures proposal includes closed loop water system cbsnews.com national outlet

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The county and nearby counties

The county Montgomery County Its decisions and every record in it 19 miles away Philadelphia County 5 data centers on the record 26 miles away Chester County 1 data center on the record 30 miles away Lehigh County 1 data center on the record 37 miles away Northampton County 3 data centers on the record

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Disclosed figures

nothing disclosed by 1 record

Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.

Power, water, jobs and tax

FigureDisclosed totalDisclosedNot disclosedBasis
PowerNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per dayNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Permanent jobsNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Tax each yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.

By what the facilities are for

UseRecordsPowerWaterJobsTax each year
Not disclosed1Not disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year

A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

What the facilities are for

No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Upper Merion is for.

How the facilities are cooled

No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Upper Merion is cooled.

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Data Center Record, "Data centers in Upper Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/pa/montgomery-county/upper-merion, updated September 25, 2026.

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Rating value
orange
Scale word
Restrictive