There is a clear, escalating set of things you can do right now, from sending one email this morning to becoming a witness at the Zoning Hearing Board. Pick what fits your time and skills. We’ll meet you where you are.
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 p.m.
Plymouth Township Building, 700 Belvoir Road, Plymouth Meeting
On October 15 the board granted Montgomery County party status and heard O’Neill testify about noise, emissions, water and power. The studies behind those claims, and the people who prepared them, still need to be examined.
Sundays, 3:30 p.m. · About 90 minutes
Open to anyone in Plymouth Township, Conshohocken, and the surrounding area. We’re talking through the October 15 hearing, what to prepare before November 19, and the O’Neill proposals in Upper Merion and West Conshohocken.
Scheduled every Sunday through early November. If the calls continue into the weeks before November 19, we’ll post the dates here and in the email update.
Tell us a little about how you can help. We’ll match you to the right working group, canvassing, research, expert testimony, fundraising, communications, or just “tell me when to show up.”
We’ll be in touch within 48 hours with next steps and the date of the next public meeting.
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Ardis Lukens writes a plain-language update for neighbors after every hearing: what happened in the room, what is scheduled next, and what help we need. Leave your email and you will get the next one. We do not share the list.
The next Data Center Update will come to this address.
Pick one. They’re ordered shortest-first, #1 takes a minute.
A resident’s Change.org petition for a township-wide moratorium, reported past 4,000 signatures in August. It takes one click and puts your name on the record.
Sign the petition →Send one short message saying you live here, you oppose the special exception, and you support a curative amendment moratorium. There is a template further down this page.
Senate Bill 1359 would pause hyperscale data center permitting statewide for three years, including the power plants built to serve them, and it reaches applications already pending. Ask your state senator to co-sponsor it.
The 900 Conshohocken Road hearing is underway before the Plymouth Township Zoning Hearing Board. June 25 settled party status, and the applicant’s testimony began August 6. The September 17 session was canceled because the township hadn’t posted the agenda 24 hours ahead, as the Sunshine Act requires. When the hearing resumed on October 15, the board granted Montgomery County party status and O’Neill testified about noise, emissions, water and power. The next session is Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at the Plymouth Township Building. The township hasn’t announced when public comment will be taken. No hearing on the applicant’s separate validity challenge has appeared on any posted agenda. Read our view of the October 15 hearing.
Most of your neighbors don’t know this is happening. Send this URL to one neighbor today, or post the home page on Facebook. A personal message from a neighbor gets read, which is more than most of us can say for a feed.
This is the most useful thing on the list, because two more people signed up means two more people in the hearing room and two more emails to Township Council.
Sign up →Plymouth Township Council are the people who can call for a curative-amendment moratorium. Your state legislators are the people who can move SB 1359. Your federal representatives matter for FERC and EPA proceedings. Identify yourself as a resident and give your address. That is how your message gets weight.
Council can advance a curative-amendment moratorium under the PA Municipalities Planning Code. They meet the second Monday of each month. Members and officers are from the township’s 2026 council minutes and its October 9 post; phone numbers are the ones the township lists for each member. The township’s council page still showed two former members as of October 23, 2026.
Has publicly opposed “hasty data center development” and tied her position to GRID standards.
Ask: Thank her for her position, and ask her to co-sponsor SB 1359 and press for a committee vote on it.
Represents Plymouth Township in the House.
Ask: Introduce or co-sponsor House companion legislation to SB 1359, which Senator Muth has publicly called for, and oppose the 900 Conshohocken Road application.
Use the official PA legislator lookup, or call the Governor’s office directly:
Dear [Council Member / Legislator],
My name is [your name] and I live at [your address] in [Plymouth Township / your municipality]. I am writing to oppose the special exception application by 900 Conshohocken Road, LLC for a 2-million-square-foot data center at the former Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant.
Data centers are not a listed use in the Heavy Industrial zoning district under Plymouth Township Zoning Ordinance No. 342. The applicant’s “similar use” theory has not been independently tested, and the application is silent on total power demand, total water demand, air emissions modeling, low-frequency noise, and the identity of the operating tenant.
I urge you to (1) call for an independent fiscal-impact study and air- and noise-modeling studies before any vote, (2) advance a 180-day curative-amendment moratorium under the PA Municipalities Planning Code so the township can write a real data center ordinance, and (3) publicly support Senate Bill 1359, the statewide three-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers and the power plants built to serve them, which reaches applications already pending.
Thank you for representing residents.
[Your name & address]
Senate Bill 1359, the Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium Act, was filed on May 29, 2026 by Senator Katie Muth (D, Berks / Chester / Montgomery), with Senator Rosemary Brown (R, Lackawanna / Monroe / Wayne) and Senator Carolyn Comitta (D, Chester) as co-sponsors. It would impose a mandatory, statewide three-year pause on the siting and permitting of hyperscale data centers and the power generation and transmission infrastructure built to serve them, and it applies to state agencies and municipalities alike.
Three features of the bill matter directly to 900 Conshohocken Road.
The bill is stalled in committee. On June 30, 2026 the Senate Local Government Committee voted down a bipartisan amendment that would have substituted the SB 1359 language, by a vote of 2 to 9, and advanced two bills offering municipalities an optional pause instead. The House had already passed HB 2496, which lets a municipality choose to pause data center applications for a limited period. As Senator Muth put it, optional is not protective, and a municipal pause triggered by a data center application does not reach a gas plant that is applied for, permitted, or owned separately.
We are a single township holding a quasi-judicial hearing under the Municipalities Planning Code. That process decides one application. SB 1359 is the only measure currently before the General Assembly that would address the buildout as a whole, on a timeline long enough to complete cumulative impact studies, gather seasonal baseline data on noise, air, and water, and let emergency responders train and equip.
Plymouth Township is in the 12th Senatorial District (Senator Maria Collett). Conshohocken Borough and Whitemarsh Township are in the 7th (Senator Vincent Hughes). West Conshohocken, Upper Merion, and Norristown are in the 17th (Senator Amanda Cappelletti). District lines changed after the 2022 redistricting, so confirm yours before you write.
“I am a constituent writing to ask you to co-sponsor and vote for Senate Bill 1359, the Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium Act. A two-million-square-foot data center with its own on-site gas-fired power generation is proposed at 900 Conshohocken Road in Plymouth Township, roughly two hundred feet from homes. The application is pending now, which is why a moratorium that reaches pending applications matters. An optional municipal pause does not reach the power generation, and it leaves each township to fight alone. My name is [your name] and I live at [your address] in [your municipality].”
The Zoning Hearing Board notices the location and time on Plymouth Township’s website and posts physical notice on the property. Bodies in the room matter, and quiet bodies matter most, because the board moved these sessions on the stated ground that audience noise was interfering with the record. The meeting room seats about 200 and gives priority to the parties, so arrive early. If you can’t get a seat, don’t go home. We’ll post watch party plans for November 19 once they’re set, and the township has streamed every session on YouTube through its data center page. Wear something that identifies you as a Plymouth resident if you can.
Public comment hasn’t been scheduled yet, and the township says it will announce in advance the hearing where it will be taken. When that night comes: identify yourself, give your address, state your position clearly, and stick to the impact on health, safety, or general welfare. The ZHB is not a campaign rally, so concrete, evidence-based testimony moves the record more than passion alone.
Audio-record (if permitted), take notes, follow Plymouth Township’s posted procedures. Procedural defects in noticing, signage, and hearing conduct are how the Prince William Digital Gateway case was voided.
If you are a licensed engineer, atmospheric scientist, hydrologist, acoustical expert, attorney, public-health professional, or environmental scientist, you are the people we need most. Sign up and check “Legal” or “Science.”
Pennsylvania-licensed land-use attorneys who can review the 2026 application, draft objections, and represent objectors before the Zoning Hearing Board.
Certified acoustical engineers willing to scope a baseline study at the four property lines, including 1/3-octave low-frequency measurements.
Atmospheric scientists or licensed PEs who can model NOx, PM, formaldehyde dispersion at the site at maximum permitted operations.
Licensed hydrologists who can evaluate the cooling-water plan, brownfield contamination history, and DEP Chapter 110 / DRBC implications.
Public-finance professionals who can scope a third-party fiscal-impact study to test the $21M tax-revenue claim.
Writers, designers, video editors, social-media folks who can keep this site, our Facebook page, and our email list current and persuasive.
No Conshy Data Centers is a grassroots group of Plymouth Township and Conshohocken-area residents. We’re opposing the 2-million-square-foot data center proposed at 900 Conshohocken Road, and we keep a public tracker of data center projects across Pennsylvania so other communities can see the full picture.
We’re a community volunteer effort without nonprofit status, and we aren’t affiliated with Plymouth Township or any government body. Organizer Ardis Lukens writes the Data Center Update that goes out after every hearing. Volunteers work in groups on canvassing, research and document review, expert testimony, fundraising, and communications and design.
Reporters, experts and neighbors can reach us at noconshydatacenters@proton.me or on Facebook.
Community-funded legal counsel, expert witnesses, and transcripts. Every dollar goes on the record.
We’re a community volunteer effort without nonprofit status, so contributions aren’t tax deductible.