Plans to build data centers in the McAdoo area appear to be progressing.

At Monday night’s Banks Township Supervisors meeting, the supervisors confirmed North Point Development has purchased 1,400 acres atop Tresckow Mountain.

“But they have to come to the township or the county with any plans yet,” said Supervisor Charles Schalles.

The land stretches from the Little Leaf lettuce plant in the McAdoo Industrial Park to the Spring Mountain Road in Packer Township.

Most of the land in Banks Township is zoned conservation, Schalles said. That would require a zoning change.

The same is true in Packer Township, where North Point representatives made a presentation to supervisors in executive session two weeks ago.

In Packer, they intend to ask for a zoning overlay to avoid a zoning change to fit the data center.

North Point representatives told Packer supervisors they’d be back in October to make a formal proposal.

Tresckow resident George Donadi told the Banks supervisors it would take 330,000 gallons per day of potable, or drinkable, water, to cool the data center’s equipment.

There have been other reports the water didn’t have to be potable, and that the water could be recirculated back into the facility. But other reports questioned how the water would be disposed of.

At the Kline Township Supervisors meeting Monday afternoon, Solicitor Mark Semanchik said he received a letter from the Pittsburgh law firm of ReedSmith, representing Amazon Data Services Inc.

The letter stated “AWS is currently evaluating the plans defined under the development agreement “the township made with Brewster Development, from whom AWS bought the land called Devil’s Mountain bounded by the villages of Lofty and Haddock, Route 309 and Interstate 81 for $186 million. Brewster intended to build 3.5 million square feet of warehousing space on the land.

“AWS intends to present an application at a later date,” the letter also stated.