A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There'll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

Small Town Is a Test Case in America's Data-Center Wars

In one Pennsylvania borough, AI's physical footprint would be hard to miss. The Washington Post's Tim Craig reports that developers want to blanket roughly 14% of Archbald, a town of 7,000 near the Poconos, with six data-center campuses holding 51 massive warehouses—some bigger than a million square feet....

A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There'll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

Enticed by cheap land, abundant resources, and massive tax breaks, tech companies are gobbling up land in small, rural communities like never before for their inconvenient real-world infrastructure. One humble burg in Northeastern Pennsylvania is inundated with so many data center proposals, in fact, that the facilities could soon make up a staggering 14 percent of the town’s surface area. In the borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania, incoming devel…