PA HOUSE DISTRICT 132 · SOUTH WHITEHALL · PARKLAND · UPPER MACUNGIE · ALLENTOWN
We are fighting all data centers.
Pennsylvania already has an estimated 101 active data centers, with dozens more proposed statewide — not just here. They're driving up everyone's electric bill, and once one is built next to a neighborhood or a school, there's no undoing it. Caren Lowrey is a lifelong South Whitehall resident, a Parkland graduate, a mother of three, and a drug prevention specialist running for State Representative to stop it, alongside lower costs, stronger schools, student safety, and accountability.
Why this can't just be a local fight
The bill that helps build them isn't local either.
House Bill 502 wouldn't just affect one township — it would create a state board with the power to approve data-center power facilities anywhere in Pennsylvania and override local zoning entirely. Mike Schlossberg co-sponsored it. At a May 2026 public forum on data centers, he said plainly: "I don't think a moratorium is appropriate from an economic or from an infrastructure development perspective." He didn't propose a pause — he said no to one, then backed the bill that clears the way for more of these, in every district, including yours.
Right here at home
The Atlas data center: our neighborhood's version of it.
Every one of these fights has a local face. Ours is the Atlas data center — a hyperscale proposal directly across Route 309 from Parkland High School, down from an original 5.1 million sq ft to roughly 1.5 million sq ft after community pushback, with a planning commission decision still pending. Caren has fought it since before she was a candidate for anything.
See her full record on it →Where she stands
Stopping data centers, and three more priorities.
Keeping decisions and dollars close to the people they affect — in South Whitehall, Parkland, Upper Macungie, and Allentown alike.
Lower Costs
Cut energy costs, ease the tax burden on working families and small businesses, and improve price transparency.
Read moreStronger Schools
Support teachers, strengthen parent involvement, and build real career pathways for students.
Read moreStudent Safety
Prevention and mental-health support from someone who does this work professionally, every day.
Read moreAccountability
Transparency, responsible spending, and real oversight — in government and in schools.
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Who's fighting for you
A neighbor first. A candidate second.
Caren works every day as a drug educator and prevention specialist in Lehigh Valley schools, sits on the Lehigh County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board, and is a certified recovery specialist in long-term recovery herself. Her family has run a local coffee-service business serving Lehigh Valley workplaces since 1988.
She's running for State Representative because the people making decisions about her district shouldn't be strangers to it — whether that's a data center in South Whitehall or a school budget in Parkland.
Meet Caren