Philadelphia Creates Task Force For…Philadelphia Creates Task Force For Data Center Rules

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker created a multiagency task force to develop enforceable standards for potential hyperscale data centers, including requirements related to infrastructure, water, public health, environmental impacts, and neighborhoods. The move follows protests seeking a moratorium and broader Pennsylvania rules requiring large projects to disclose resource use and pay grid connection costs. No Philadelphia data center project has been approved, and no City Council moratorium or specific regulatory measure has been introduced.