Shapiro reverses course on data center industry he once embraced
Gov. Josh Shapiro, facing a tidal wave of public negativity about data centers, last week reversed course on an industry he once embraced by chastising many of its players as speculative troublemakers and pulling away access to the state's "fast track" permitting program. It was during a visit to a major data center site in Luzerne County in late 2024 that Shapiro created the fast track process, which he described as a "game changer" in getting big projects moving along. Recently, nine of 17 projects in the program were data centers. On Tuesday, he signed a new executive order that ...
