The Cleveland-Cliffs site debate is back on, and it is back on loud. A new application has reignited the data center conversation in Conshohocken, the kind of land-use story that sounds dry until you remember it involves traffic, power demand, tax base, and the look of the river side of town for a generation. So, yeah, worth paying attention.
Over at MoreThanTheCurve, the local angle is sharpened with a pragmatic piece floating common sense conditions to consider if approval is the likely outcome. Sometimes the most useful civic question is not whether something will pass but what guardrails should ride along with it. Read the rundown at MoreThanTheCurve and the broader application story at MONTCO.Today.
And if you think this is just a Conshy problem, look one zip code over. The Upper Merion Planning Commission has five, count them, five data centers on its May 27 agenda. That is not a typo, that is a regional trend pressing right up against our backyard.