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  "license": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0. Link to the specific record page where possible.",
  "source": "https://datacenterrecord.org/states/pa/schuylkill-county/butler-township",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27T02:39:42.439Z",
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      "slug": "highridge-data-project-nebius-butler-township-pa",
      "name": "Highridge Data Project Nebius",
      "summary": "NorthPoint Development and Nebius proposed the Highridge Data Project on a 600 acre tract in Highridge Business Park in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, with a Chapter 102 NPDES stormwater permit application under review at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.",
      "state": "PA",
      "city": "Butler Township",
      "county": "Schuylkill County",
      "status": "permitting",
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      "location_source": "PA DEP Data Center Permit Tracker and Schuylkill County parcel in Highridge Business Park, Butler Township, PA 17931.",
      "location_verified_at": "2026-10-23",
      "coordinate_source": "PA DEP Data Center Permit Tracker point in Butler Township",
      "location_last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "site_address": "Highridge Park Road, Highridge Business Park, Frackville (Butler Township), PA 17931",
      "site_address_source_url": "https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/",
      "published": "2026-10-13",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
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      "site_acres": 600,
      "site_acres_disclosed_as": "permitted",
      "site_acres_source_url": "https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/",
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      "interconnection_status": "not_disclosed",
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      "water_measure": null,
      "state_permit_status": "Permits under review",
      "state_permit_status_source_url": "https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/",
      "state_permit_status_disclosed_as": "permitted",
      "state_permit_status_as_of": "2026-10-07",
      "state_permit_status_last_verified": "2026-10-23",
      "buildings": null,
      "buildings_basis": null,
      "buildings_source_url": null,
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      "record_url": "https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/highridge-data-project-nebius-butler-township-pa",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pennsylvania DEP Data Center Permit Tracker",
          "url": "https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/",
          "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection",
          "date": "2026-10-07",
          "source_tier": 2
        },
        {
          "title": "Stink and AI: West End slams biosolids site, Nebius pitches data center - Republican Herald",
          "url": "https://www.republicanherald.com/2026/07/22/stink-and-ai-west-end-slams-biosolids-site-nebius-pitches-data-center/",
          "publisher": "Republican Herald",
          "date": "2026-07-22",
          "source_tier": 1
        }
      ],
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          "use_type": "not_disclosed",
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          "source_url": null
        }
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        "tenancy": "not_disclosed",
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        "source_url": null
      },
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          "status": "proposed",
          "effective_at": "2026-07-29",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "date_precision": "day",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "A proposed 600 acre data center in Butler Township prompted a special municipal hearing.",
          "source_url": "https://www.republicanherald.com/2026/07/29/butler-twp-schedules-special-hearing-for-proposed-600-acre-data-center/",
          "source_tier": 4
        },
        {
          "status": "proposed",
          "effective_at": "2026-07-22",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "date_precision": "day",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": null,
          "summary": "Nebius pitched a data center project in the West End area of Pennsylvania.",
          "source_url": "https://www.republicanherald.com/2026/07/22/stink-and-ai-west-end-slams-biosolids-site-nebius-pitches-data-center/",
          "source_tier": 4
        },
        {
          "status": "permitting",
          "effective_at": "2026-05-08",
          "date_basis": "content",
          "date_precision": "day",
          "planned": false,
          "source_date": "2026-10-07",
          "summary": "The Pennsylvania DEP received the project's first permit application on May 8, 2026; its tracker lists the project as permits under review (7 permits: 2 issued, 1 pending, 4 not yet submitted).",
          "source_url": "https://gis.dep.pa.gov/DataCenterPermitTracker/",
          "source_tier": 2
        }
      ]
    }
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