Huge AI Data Center Planned for Pennsylvania Coal Plant Site
Demolition work at the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station, on March 22.
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A $10 billion natural gas-powered data center to serve the surging demands of artificial intelligence is being planned for the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.
The data center campus will be developed with gas-fired turbines built by GE Vernova Inc. about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh at the location of Homer City Generation, previously the state’s largest coal plant, Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit Power Constructors Co. said Wednesday in a statement.