Covington Township is a small town that’s a suburb of Scranton Pennsylvania, on the verge of the Pocono Mountains.
Covington Twp. supervisors hear residents’ concerns, vote to add data centers to its zoning WVIA | By Kat Bolus | WVIA News Published July 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM EDT “We live here and people come here because it is rural and we do have that small town feel, and we have hunting, and we have hiking, and we have animals, and we have natural beauty, and this could jeopardize all of that,” Carina Havenstrite, a Covington Twp. resident, said before the vote. “Voting to change this zoning could jeopardize the way of life of this community, and it’s very clear that the community is not in favor.”
The Poconos are notoriously lacking in infrastructure for the surges of residents it’s seen in the past decades and especially since 2020. So this will create more strain on regional resources for sure. .
WNEP16 – Lackawanna County residents oppose development of proposed data center – A community came together for a meeting inside the Covington Township Municipal building to oppose a multi-billion-dollar data center complex Author: Adithya Iyer July 24, 2025 “This will go down in history as the biggest mistake the North Pocono area has ever seen, with the largest negative impact to our whole community,” expressed Brittany Terbovich of Covington Township.
Someone should be looking into what kind of financial interests these township supervisors have in the proposed 500 acres to be used for this planned ginormous data center power plant.
Clifton Twp. zoning hearing about data centers moved to September, if needed at all WVIA | By Kat Bolus | WVIA News Published July 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM EDT The fire hall was packed with North Pocono-area residents, taxpayers and land owners, most of whom oppose plans to build a multi-structure data center on hundreds of acres along Route 380 in both Covington and Clifton townships.
It’s not over and they can be stopped. The brakes are being slammed elsewhere.
Amazon pulls Louisa County data center proposal after strong resistance. Members of the Louisa community railed against a now-halted fourth proposed data center but concerns remain over the three to come. By: Shannon Heckt – July 28, 2025 5:28 am Amazon Web Services pulled an application for a 7.2 million square foot data center in Louisa County last week, after a surge of resident opposition. Concerns remain, however, over the impact of the county’s three other data centers that are in different stages of development, none of which were required to go through the conditional use permitting process that allows for more community input.
My letter to reps:
What personal financial interests do you have invested in bringing data centers to the area? I heard about the Covington Township supervisors and how they voted to bring a data center despite hundreds of people at a town meeting crying out please no. I think this is something important if you’re going to be voting for stuff that will tank resident home values by 75%+, raise utility bills, and ruin our quality of life like we’re hearing from the residents in places where these data center power plants set up. I think politicians should have to disclose everything. People using their government positions for personal profiteering do not belong pretending to represent the residents of Pennsylvania.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.