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Pa. township mulls hiring outside negotiator for $50M offer from data center developer
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Fusion42 · 29 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Upper Mount Bethel Township in Pennsylvania is considering hiring an outside negotiator to secure a $50 million community benefits agreement from Slate Belt Holdings, a joint venture planning a large hyperscale data center campus. The township aims to amend zoning to explicitly permit data centers and negotiate terms linked to the project's scale and computing capacity.
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You face new negotiation demands as local authorities shift to secure community funds from large data center projects. Hiring an expert to guide terms can open doors to sizeable local funding, but delays risk project stalling and tougher community pushback.
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