It’s time to drag out that AC/DC song again:
I just don’t pretend to understand what’s going on. Just when you think it can’t get any more twisted and insane over at the Historic Hood Mansion in Limerick, it just does.
A little while ago I wrote about how Hood Mansion was facing destruction from warehouses, End it seems that according to Limerick’s zoning officer, Greta Martin Washington, data centers are a form of warehouse, so was this the plan all along?
So why the switcheroo of what was previously being built versus now? I mean OK if the zoning says a data center is a kind of a warehouse and then they put that in a public notice that might possibly be the letter of the law, but is it the spirit of the law and does the spirit matter at all here?
So I have to ask with everything else Hood Mansion, did it come up at Limerick supervisor meetings? And since human remains were found there, what about them? Limerick seems a little bit shrouded in mystery and cloudy days, so I’m asking the questions. It’s another Nancy Drew mystery, right? Needs sunshine?
What is also with Nancy Drew mystery with Limerick Township are their agendas and their meetings because I don’t really see them talking about this unless I’m not looking in the right place? Again did the change get discussed at a public meeting or just in the notice filed in itty bitty print that no one reads?
Always read the fine print. It’s exhausting.
Yes, warehouses were bad enough right? It’s a historic site and it may quite probably have been on the underground railroad, and they recently found human remains right? So now it’s not mega warehouses, it’s mega data center time?
Gosh Limerick Township, that’s very Louden County, Virginia of you.
Yeah, I’ve written about data centers before. Here are the posts:
I’ve also written about Hood Mansion before.
The media has spoken about Hood Mansion quite a bit…
Urban Explorers love Hood too:
https://www.phillyvoice.com/hood-manison-limerick-preservation-free-moved-historic/
And it’s also about the public notice:
https://www.publicnoticepa.com/Details.aspx?SID=ugtmfnusypjrkj4hq0uholrv&ID=1864474
Was this discussed in a meeting in Limerick as well? I know I’m becoming repetitive, but I’m just so curious as to how this all came about, or if this was the plan all along?
And people would ask why data centers? Will data centers get along very nicely apparently with nuclear power plants, correct? And isn’t Limerick literally like down the road across the road across the street or something?
And what made me think of that? A little Googling – I found this thing from May in Data Center Dynamics:
AWS granted 1,600-acre rezoning request, plans 15-building campus at Pennsylvania nuclear site
Company going big at nuclear site acquired from Talen
It’s a pretty big article and it’s fairly interesting. I would suggest people read it because it’s a road map isn’t it? Aso basically, it’s like these people want to do this in Limerick right? They knock down the Hood Mansion they don’t care about the human remains or the history and they build a data center and they’re across the street from Limerick or whatever, right?
And don’t forget data centers also go hand-in-hand with those lovely hydrogen plants don’t they? We learned that in West Whiteland didn’t we? MACH 2 Hydrogen Hub anyone?
If you’re interested in that, check out this Delaware Riverkeeper video :
I will close by suggesting everyone read what’s below from this August- It’s a big long article I’ve taken a big old excerpt, but go to the source and read the whole thing. I think this is the game plan. Of course, I have no proof and I also have no inside information. It just seems to make sense because there’s a nuclear power plant at Limerick and then there’s the Hood Mansion and they want to put a data center form there now, so has this just been hiding in plain sight all along?
Time will tell and all of the people who live in that area of Montgomery County need to wake up, not just a historic preservation types who want to save old structures like Hood.
There’s a big picture here. Lots o’ money in data centers and things data centers love and interact with right?
Don’t forget Louden County Virginia – down there those residents in those developments next to data centers can tell you how noisy they are. There are tons of articles.
Sigh. Here comes a data center circus.
https://virginiamercury.com/2022/12/09/virginia-has-a-data-center-problem/
Something really does smell like dead rotting fish in Limerick, PA doesn’t it?
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