Plymouth Township announced on July 14th that the zoning hearing for a proposed data center at 900 Conshohocken Road will not proceed on July 28th as scheduled. It is now being continued to August 6th. If you had that date circled, uncircle it, then re-circle the new one.
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The delay lands in the middle of a very active neighbor response. A petition is circulating that asks Conshohocken's borough council to seek party status in Plymouth Township's zoning proceedings, which would give the borough a formal seat at the table rather than the usual role of concerned neighbor waving from across the municipal line. Whether council takes that step is its own decision, but the pressure is coming from residents who live close enough to the site to care very much what gets built there.
Data centers are the current shiny object of regional land use fights. They are quiet, they do not add school kids, and they generate tax revenue. They also draw serious power, run cooling systems around the clock, and reshape traffic patterns during construction. Those tradeoffs are exactly what a zoning hearing is supposed to sort out, which is why the August 6th date is worth knowing about even if you plan to skip it. Full background is available at MoreThanTheCurve.