Data center firm Edged is looking to develop a campus outside Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Edged is looking to develop on some 410 acres of underdeveloped farmland at 2493 N. Cedar Crest Boulevard in South Whitehall Township. The campus is known as Project Atlas.

Via its CDE Acquisitions LLC affiliate, Edged originally hoped to build six data centers spanning more than 5.1 million square feet (474,575 sqm). Up to $9 billion was set to be invested, according to city documents.

However, the company has now scaled back its plans for the development, with Edged now looking to develop just three buildings, totaling around 1.5 million sq ft (139,355 sqm) and 725MW.

On a dedicated project website, Edged says it will pay for all power and infrastructure upgrades needed for the campus.

South Whitehall Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, some 60 miles north of Philadelphia.

News of Project Atlas first surfaced via a November township meeting. Edged removed its application from a January planning commission meeting, but is now back with updated plans. The township planning commission is set to discuss the project this week.

The land, adjacent to a local high school, is reportedly owned by local real estate firm Jeras Corp. and already zoned for industrial development. Edged says it aims to dedicate 160 acres to the Jordan Creek Greenway as part of the project.

A Change.org petition against the project has more than 9,150 signatures at the time of writing. A dedicated website against the project, OpposeAtlasDC, has also been set up. A fundraising campaign against Atlas has raised more than $34,000.

Formerly known as Edged Energy, Edged is part of Endeavour, which was set up by Aligned founder Jakob Carnemark. The company has data centers either operating or in development in Bilbao, Madrid, and Barcelona in Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; and across the US, including Missouri, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois.

Not traditionally a major data center market, a report published by analyst firm DC Byte in September 2025 suggested Pennsylvania’s data center market is growing exponentially, jumping from 231MW of total IT load in 2021 to a hefty 7.8GW of planned load in 2025.

DCD explored Pennsylvania’s recent rise as a data center market in issue 60 of DCD>Magazine. Read part I and part II here now.