(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Pitt Race International Complex)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Big Beaver Borough, PA) A group that is opposed to a proposed data center development in Big Beaver hosted its own town hall last night, drawing nearly 100 people to the Big Beaver Volunteer Fire Department. 

This meeting comes about a month after the data center company Switch⁠ held a community meeting about its plans for the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex property. 

Among the organizers was Dan Dennehy-Rodriguez with the Three Rivers Motorsport Preservation Society, which is a group formed by supporters of the former Pitt Race complex. 

According to Dennehy-Rodriguez, the goal of that town hall was to educate residents about data centers and help them better understand how the proposed development could affect the community. 

Switch is proposing a campus that consists of three data center buildings on roughly 400 acres of the former Pitt Race property, which is approximately the size of 300 football fields. 

Dennehy-Rodriguez stated that he hopes the concerns that were raised during the meeting reach both Switch and local elected leaders. 

Big Beaver officials voted in September of 2025 to amend an ordinance allowing data centers in the township. 

Several local officials were invited to attend this meeting and some council members were also present, but no representative from Switch attended.