The application for the proposed data center at 900 Conshohocken Road in Conshohocken (Plymouth Township) is scheduled to be considered by the Plymouth Township Zoning Hearing Board on October 20th at 7:00 p.m. (agenda). Developer Brian O’Neill is seeking a special exception to allow the data center on the property of the steel mill that has made its home on the property for almost two centuries.

The proposal was recently before the township’s planning agency, which voted 4-0 against recommending that the zoning hearing board grant a special exception. You can read MoreThanTheCurve.com’s coverage of the planning agency meeting and decision here.

The text of the agenda items is below:

900 CONSHOHOCKEN LLC: On an application for Special Exception from Plymouth Township Zoning Ordinance No. 342, as amended, Article XV, Section 1502.J.

The Special Exception requested is as follows: Applicant requests a data center development using existing buildings on property consisting of ten buildings which comprise 1,000,000 square feet to be modified to contain two floors, which would result in approximately 2,000,000 suite of space dedicated to data centers. Ancillary stand-by generators will be located outside of the existing buildings. Ancillary gas turbines will be located within and between the buildings.

The property is located at 900 Conshohocken Road in “Heavy Industry” Zoning District.