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Blakely data center developers

This group covers the two people who presented themselves as co-developers of a proposed data center campus of about 209 acres behind West Mountain Road in Blakely Borough, Lackawanna County: Jim Marzolino, a local businessman who Data Center Dynamics says is affiliated with PDC Realty, and the landowner, who was the applicant. At an August 2025 information session they described a 586,000-square-foot building footprint, buildings up to 70 feet tall and 1.5 gigawatts of power they said PPL had committed. They withdrew their rezoning request on September 12, 2025 after residents petitioned against it, saying the borough had declined to schedule a second public meeting.

Marzolino is also tied to PDC Realty, the company behind the Project Boson data center plan in neighboring Archbald and the listed owner of the site of a proposed gas power plant there.

Scoreboard

Pennsylvania project on our map

1 withdrawn, denied or stopped

Developer: 1

Approved or built0

In process0

Stopped1

Megawatts named1,500 MWpublished for 1 of 1

Building area named586,000 sq ftpublished for 1 of 1

Land involved209 acrespublished for 1 of 1

Counties1Lackawanna

Earliest project2025first public announcement

Local groups opposing2across its projects

Legal filings0appeals, challenges and suits on file

Community impacts4documented on its projects

News stories6in our coverage log

Projects

Project	Status	Role	Size named
Blakely Borough Data Center (early stage)Blakely Borough, Lackawanna CountySuggest a correction	Withdrawn	Developer	1,500 MW 586,000 sq ft

Sources

Blakely data center developers withdraw zoning request FOX56 (WOLF) · 2025-09-12
Junkyard in Pennsylvania acquired, developer files to develop data center campus Data Center Dynamics · 2025-08-18
Blakely Borough Data Center (early stage) No Conshy Data Centers · 2026-10-22
Planning Commission agenda, Aug. 4, 2025 Blakely Borough · 2025-08-04

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