en.Wedoany.com Reported - Data center company Edged is planning to build a data center campus called "Project Atlas" in South Whitehall Township, a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, located on approximately 410 acres of undeveloped farmland at 2493 N. Cedar Crest Boulevard.
Through its affiliate CDE Acquisitions LLC, Edged initially planned to build six data centers with a total floor area exceeding 5.1 million square feet (474,575 square meters), with an investment of up to $9 billion. However, the company has now scaled back the development, currently planning only three buildings with a total area of approximately 1.5 million square feet (139,355 square meters) and a total capacity of 725MW.
On a dedicated project website, Edged stated it will cover all costs for power and infrastructure upgrades required for the campus. South Whitehall Township is located in Lehigh County, about 60 miles north of Philadelphia.
News of the Atlas project first emerged through a township meeting in November. Edged withdrew its application during a planning commission meeting in January and is now returning with updated plans, with the township planning commission set to discuss the project this week. The land, adjacent to a local high school, is reportedly owned by local real estate company Jeras Corp. and has been zoned for industrial development. Edged said it plans to dedicate 160 acres of the site to the Jordan Creek Greenway as part of the project.
A petition opposing the project on Change.org has garnered over 9,150 signatures, and a dedicated opposition website, OpposeAtlasDC, has been established, with related fundraising efforts raising over $34,000.
Edged, formerly known as Edged Energy, is part of Endeavour and was founded by Aligned founder Jakob Carnemark. The company has operational or under-development data centers in Bilbao, Madrid, and Barcelona, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; and in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois.
Pennsylvania has traditionally not been a major data center market, but a September 2025 report from analytics firm DC Byte shows the state's data center market is experiencing exponential growth, with total IT load jumping from 231MW in 2021 to a planned 7.8GW in 2025.
