# Lancaster Publishes Data Center CBA

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) identified eight executed community benefit agreements (CBAs) associated with data center development, but found the Lancaster AI Hub agreement—the agreement between the City of Lancaster and developers of two data center campuses, dated November 2025—to be the only fully executed CBA publicly posted. The agreements address taxes and financing, environmental impacts, transparency, accountability, and project obligations, making negotiated community terms and public scrutiny relevant considerations for governments and firms pursuing data center projects.

- Data center developers and contractors should account for potential community-benefit commitments alongside project financing, environmental impacts, transparency, and accountability in local negotiations.
- Procurement and economic-development teams can use the Lancaster agreement as a public example; FAS also provides a CBA template and analysis of local ordinance trends.
- FAS invites local governments to share executed agreements at metrolab@fas.org, which may help broaden the publicly available examples for future project planning.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Information Technology
**Topics:** Digital Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
**Published:** November 08, 2026

### Government Entities
- City of Lancaster
- City of Cedar Rapids
- City of St. Louis
- City of El Paso
- Pima County

### Sources
- [What's with all the secret data center agreements?](https://fas.org/publication/data-center-community-benefit-agreements) - Federation of American Scientists