Wyalusing Township, Bradford County
A New Fortress Energy affiliate holds a DEP air permit for eight gas turbines to power a data center on its former LNG site along Route 6. No data center operator has been named, and New Fortress's 2026 debt restructuring called for moving the land into a company owned by some of its creditors.
Local officials got notice of New Fortress's LNG plant plan for the site on October 17, 2018, and that plant won an air approval in 2019 but was never built. New Fortress launched Klondike Digital Infrastructure on July 2, 2024. KDI Wyalusing Power filed its air application on December 27, 2024. DEP published its intent to approve it on July 12, 2025, took comments until August 11, 2025, and issued the plan approval on October 9, 2025, with notice in the October 25, 2025 Pennsylvania Bulletin. Bradford County held a public information meeting on data centers in Wyalusing on March 23, 2026 and adopted data center land development rules on July 9, 2026. New Fortress signed a restructuring agreement on March 17, 2026 that called for separating its Brazil business and Wyalusing land from the company, and the restructuring closed on September 11, 2026.
DEP's plan approval caps the eight turbines at about 74 tons of nitrogen oxides, 93 tons of carbon monoxide, 92 tons of particulate matter and 1,113,659 tons of greenhouse gases a year, with up to 18,560 million cubic feet of gas burned.
Pennsylvania Bulletin, 55 Pa.B. 4703The plant needs a water intake and demineralized water for its pollution controls, and DEP says KDI will need a Susquehanna River Basin Commission withdrawal approval and a Chapter 105 permit for the intake.
PA Environment Digest BlogThe application says the plant won't connect to the regional grid and can't export power, so the data center would run on its own gas generation.
Pennsylvania DEP Northcentral Regional OfficeThe application estimates about 50 employees at the power plant site; no data center job figures have been published.
Pennsylvania DEP Northcentral Regional OfficeNew Fortress's restructuring support agreement split the company in two. Its 10-Q says the Wyalusing land would go with the Brazil business into a separate company exchanged to creditors. The plans were sanctioned June 18, 2026, recognized in the U.S. on June 29, 2026, and closed September 11, 2026.
New Fortress Energy Inc. and its lenders and noteholders · Completed September 11, 2026In Pennsylvania, the local zoning ordinance sets the route. A conditional use is decided by the elected governing body (supervisors, commissioners or council). A special exception or variance, and an appeal of a zoning officer’s decision, go to the Zoning Hearing Board. Each is a public hearing on a record: affected neighbors can ask for party status, cross-examine witnesses, and appeal. Municipalities can also adopt data center ordinances with enforceable standards.
Know your rights →Organized community opposition is the single most effective check on these projects in Pennsylvania. Show up to hearings, submit comment when it is taken, support legal and expert-witness costs, and press your municipality for a real ordinance. Pennsylvania municipalities cannot simply freeze applications, but a curative amendment under the Planning Code gives them a defined window to fix a defective ordinance.
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