Valley Forge Digital Utility Facility / Lower Providence

Valley Forge Digital Utility Facility, also tracked as Lower Providence, is a mapped data center in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with a reported footprint of 62,375 square feet. State records list 1 tracked environmental enforcement record tied to the site. It draws power from Peco Energy Co inside the PJM grid. Operator and ultimate ownership are not disclosed in available records.

• How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers - The Conversation

  The Conversation· Jun 11, 2026
• In Midvalley visit, Shapiro unveils data center standards, meets with residents - Scranton Times-Tribune

  Scranton Times-Tribune· May 27, 2026
• Pennsylvania regulators move to protect utility customers from data center costs - Energy Exchange - Environmental Defense Fund

  Environmental Defense Fund· May 15, 2026
• PPL ‘advanced’ data center pipeline grows to 28.3 GW in Pennsylvania - Utility Dive

  Utility Dive· May 11, 2026
• Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission advances measure that aims to protect ratepayers from data center demand - 90.5 WESA

  90.5 WESA· May 8, 2026
• Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission advances measure that aims to protect ratepayers from data center demand - WHYY

  WHYY· May 1, 2026

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

▶ 24:53

Norristown City Council

Dec 6, 2016 · 2 data-center mentions

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

• Clean Air Actno penalty
  formal · reported 2024-11-01

• Clean Air Act permitted sourcePA000752433
  NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's RTO pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Philadelphia), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

The nearest public school, Woodland El Sch in Norristown, is 1.2 mi from this site (428 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.