A crowd of more than 200 residents left the Hanover Township Fire Hall feeling unresolved after a scheduled Wednesday night hearing on the proposed Starpointe data center project was delayed following nearly three hours of preliminary procedure. Residents had hoped to hear from representatives of Texas-based developer Prime Data Centers LLC, who submitted an application in May 2026 to construct a seven-building data center and attached power generation facility in Starpointe Business Park. Instead, the Hanover Township Board of Supervisors opted to continue the hearing until Aug. 31 after more than 20 residents used an opportunity to petition for party status to the hearing to voice their displeasure with the project overall. Three private attorneys representing residents who live near Starpointe requested party status, saying that their clients would be harmed by air, light, noise, water and vibratory pollution due to their proximity to the proposed data center campus. A team of attorneys representing Prime and Starpointe landowner ALTIAN Development LLC prepared a slideshow presentation to explain the project, but the extended party status application period did not allow them to begin.