Data Center Debate Continues In Lower Bucks Co.

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA — An Amazon data center is coming to Lower Bucks County, and despite objections, there really is no stopping it.

But that doesn't mean people are going to stop protesting it or raising complaints about its impact.

Those complaints and concerns are expected to be addressed at a town hall meeting on Tuesday night in Falls Township.

Falls Township officials said construction of Bucks County's first data center at the former U.S. Steel property at the Keystone Trade Center near the Delaware River is nearly complete.

The town hall meeting will take place from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday at Pennsbury High School East in Fairless Hills.

Representatives from Amazon, PECO Energy Company and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will deliver presentations. Residents will have the opportunity to ask questions.

A petition opposing the data center began to circulate in May and has over 4,000 signatures.

At a Falls Township Supervisors meeting in June, several residents in the standing-room only crowd asked supervisors to pause construction and enact a moratorium on data centers.

Pennsylvania law prohibits moratoriums to be enacted on data centers.

Every municipality must permit all types of developments, including data centers, to be built somewhere within the community.

Bensalem, though, approved an amendment that allows the township to suspend data centers and amend the zoning ordinance to regulate these facilities.

In March 2025, Falls Township Supervisors — following various other public meetings, including the zoning
hearing board and planning commission — approved North Point Development’s modified land development plans, which permitted warehouses at the KTC to accommodate a data center.

The data center is expected to support hundreds of skilled construction jobs over multiple years and creates permanent roles in engineering, operations, facilities management, and security.

Last year, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced two data center projects that will create around 1,250 "high-paying, high-tech" jobs. He said the "innovation campuses" will represent the "largest private sector investment in the history of Pennsylvania."