January 5th, 2026 by WCBC Radio

Residents in Lancaster, Pennsylvania are voicing concern over plans to convert two former printing plants into massive data centers for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Frank Arcoleo with Lancaster Stands Up says the new data centers bring little benefit locally. “Most of the jobs that a data center creates are temporary construction nobs. There are very few permanent jobs. It’s not fair to bring in data centers and to have them offload cost, whether they’re grid construction costs, demand capacity costs, on to normal rate payers.”