Severe weather caused a postponement of the conditional use hearing for a controversial proposal to build a 1.3-million-square-foot data center at the former Pennhurst state hospital in East Vincent Township. The township announced that the hearing will be rescheduled for Monday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. at East Vincent Elementary School, 340 Ridge Road, Spring City. The township had received new plans from the developers that significantly increase the scope of the project just one day before the originally scheduled hearing. The new submission “increases the data center square footage from 1.3 million square feet to 1.9 million and adds power generation,” activist Ginny Kerslake posted on the Prevent East Vincent Data Center Development Facebook page. A look at the new engineering plans submitted to the township shows at least 10 acres along the Schuylkill River set aside for “power generation.”
Source: Daily Local; 3/13/2026 and 3/18/2026