Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (community benefit agreement for three data centres)

One of the first substantial community benefit agreements attached to data centre development in the United States, covering three facilities totalling roughly 2 million square feet, with 300 jobs and a 20-year term. Financial terms: $20.25 million total, comprising $10 million to a community foundation, $10 million to a clean energy fund, and $250,000 for planning, plus a $10 million letter of credit that decrements $2.5 million per compliant facility. Operational terms: municipal water capped at 20,000 gallons per day per campus, with closed-loop cooling. The water cap is a specific number tied to a specific unit, and the letter of credit pays out without litigation — the two provisions that demonstrably bind. Documented weaknesses from independent legal analysis: the community group received the agreement text two days before the council vote; 'clean energy' is satisfiable with unbundled renewable energy certificates; there are no numeric decibel thresholds; there are no binding local hire percentages; expected energy consumption was not disclosed; and enforcement of remaining terms depends on a resource-constrained city being willing to sue well-resourced developers.