The Keystone Trade Center data center campus in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is an active, multi-facility development currently under construction. Spearheaded by NorthPoint and anchored by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the project is significantly increasing data processing and AI infrastructure capacity within the existing site. You can read the full analysis at local development reports.
NorthPoint Development is advancing plans to develop a data center campus as part of the broader Keystone Trade Center project in Fairless Hills. The overall development is valued at approximately $1.5 billion and is currently progressing through its third phase.
The proposed NorthPoint Development Keystone data center campus illustrates both the drivers and the challenges behind America’s data center boom. As developers race to build capacity for AI and cloud computing, projects face growing scrutiny over their local impacts, showing that demand for digital infrastructure does not guarantee community support.
According to project details, the data center campus is planned to cover 247 acres and include 10 buildings ranging in size from approximately 112,000 to 217,000 square feet. The structures are expected to be one to two stories in height.
The Falls Township Board of Supervisors has approved the construction of the data center project. The site had previously been designated for distribution and warehouse facilities, but the current proposal reflects a revised development plan focused on data infrastructure.
Latest updates for NorthPoint Development in Pennsylvania show massive expansion, including a 10-million-square-foot project at the Keystone Trade Center in Falls Township. The company is actively developing high-tech industrial and data center projects, with significant focus on Pennsylvania to support AI infrastructure.
NorthPoint’s Pennsylvania Dilemma: Data Center Gridlock Amid Warehouse Growth
NorthPoint Development is currently facing an unprecedented wave of community resistance and legal gridlock as it attempts to execute a massive, multi-billion-dollar pivot from traditional logistics warehouses to sprawling, Amazon-backed AI data centers across Pennsylvania. The friction has reached a boiling point at Project Hazelnut in Hazle Township, where NorthPoint’s highly unusual $45 million direct-to-resident cash offer was fiercely rejected by locals who labeled the $10,000-per-household payouts as “hush money.” This public backlash, combined with a recent court ruling upholding the denial of their zoning appeal and a municipal construction moratorium, has effectively frozen the tech campus’s progress while neighboring communities fight eminent domain threats over the massive high-voltage power lines required to feed the site.
While its digital infrastructure ambitions remain locked in intense regulatory and environmental standoffs, NorthPoint’s traditional commercial footprint in the commonwealth continues to advance. The developer has successfully decoupled its tech infrastructure battles from its core logistics portfolio, forging ahead with industrial expansions like the Hazleton Logistics 141 park. This master-planned supply chain hub is slated to deliver over five million square feet of Class-A industrial space, signaling that while NorthPoint’s high-tech AI future in Pennsylvania faces an uphill battle, its foundational warehouse and distribution network remains a major driver of the state’s commercial landscape.
Other Projects
The NorthPoint Development Keystone data center campus is one of the many as the Wonder Valley data center campus also advances. The construction of the 9GW Wonder Valley data center campus in Box Elder County, Utah has been given the greenlight. However, this comes amid passionate protests from residents who attended a meeting by the commission on Monday. The county’s three commissioners approved the “hyperscale” data center and energy project. It is backed by the Military Installation Development Authority and Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary. Another center advancing is Fisk University’s “Quantum Leap” data center project which is currently facing fierce pushback.
According to the university’s insight on the project, they the Quantum Leap Innovation and Technology center is a “100,000 square foot facility on the southern end of Fisk’s campus — comprising a 70,000 square foot innovation center and a 30,000 square foot Innovation and Academic Center.” The plans are being described by Fisk as “a replicable framework for responsible, community-centered digital infrastructure development across the nation.” Nonetheless, despite efforts to assure the community, the proposal has sparked a large outcry from the locals.
First two phases
The first two phases of the 5.5 million-square-foot Keystone Trade Center have already been completed and leased out. New Jersey-based US Elogistics signed on to lease 518,000 square feet in a newly constructed 1.04 million-square-foot building on campus, according to marketing materials.
At full development, the 1,800-acre Keystone Trade Center would have space for 20 or more industrial warehouses, distribution facilities, and data centers with a combined footprint of 10 million to 15 million square feet.
NorthPoint’s shift into data centers is an indication of changing market trends. Demand for industrial warehouse space increased earlier in this decade but has fallen sharply during the last two years.
And the campus is till expanding, on June 9, 2025, Amazon revealed plans for a $20 billion statewide investment in Pennsylvania, with one of its first cloud and AI data center campuses set for Falls Township’s Keystone Trade Center. According to Falls Township officials, the project is part of Amazon’s broader rollout of multiple innovation campuses and is projected to generate about 1,250 jobs. While the commitment is confirmed, township leaders noted that the exact building location within the Keystone Trade Center has not yet been disclosed, as final agreements remain under negotiation.
The pattern showing up at Keystone Trade Center — an existing asset getting reassigned to its highest-value use once a serious AI tenant is in hand — is playing out elsewhere too. In Southwest Michigan, Hyperscale Data made a similar calculation with its data center campus: after signing a neocloud services agreement, the company began converting mining capacity to AI compute and tapped its Bitcoin treasury to fund the buildout, treating an existing asset the same way NorthPoint treated its warehouse land — as the fastest available source of capital for a higher-value pivot.
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NorthPoint Data Center Campus at Keystone Trade Center:
Project Factsheet
Overview
Location: Fairless Hills, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Site: Former U.S. Steel site
Total Site Area: 247 acres
Project Phase: Third phase of Keystone Trade Center development
Data Center Campus Overview
Total Data Center Area: 2 million square feet
Number of Buildings: 10
Building Size Range: 112,000 – 217,000 square feet
Building Height: 1-2 stories
Approvals and Development
Approval Body: Falls Township Board of Supervisors
Previous Planned Use: Four distribution facilities
Current Use: Digital infrastructure campus
Broader Keystone Trade Center Context
Total Keystone Trade Center Site: 1,800 acres
Projected Full Development Capacity:
20+ industrial warehouses, and distribution facilities
10-15 million square feet total footprint
And the latest addition; 2M SF Data Center Campus
Completed Phases
First Two Phases:
5.5 million square feet completed
Fully leased
Notable Tenant: US Elogistics (518,000 sq ft lease in 1.04 million sq ft building)
Market Context
Shift from Industrial Warehousing: Responding to declining demand for warehouse space
Focus: Emerging digital infrastructure market
Developer
Company: NorthPoint Development
Read also: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces $1 Billion Data Center in Marysville
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