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The owners of what was once Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired power plant said Wednesday that they will turn it into a $10 billion natural gas-powered data center campus designed to capitalize on the...
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The project underscores the push to find adequate power to drive the artificial intelligence boom.
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Groups behind the data center project in Pa. said it will help generate the power needed for AI and advanced computing technologies.
Officials in Indiana County have now revealed what is replacing the former Homer City Power Plant.RELATED |According to the Homer City Redevelopment group, a 3
Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit Power Constructors Co. plan to announce details of a natural-gas powered “data campus” on the site of a former coal-fired power plant. The towers of the former plant that dominated the skyline along Route 22 in Indiana County were imploded March 22.
The 4.5 GW plant proposed at the old Homer City Generating Station site would be the largest gas plant in the U.S.
The two plan to spend at least $10 billion to transform what was once the largest coal-burning plant in Pennsylvania.
For years, the Marcellus Shale industry’s massive growth potential has been boxed in by one simple fact: There isn’t enough demand for natural gas in Appalachia or the pipelines to carry it to other parts of the country that need it.
The site of the former Homer City coal-fired generating station is expected to host by 2027 a $10 billion natural gas-powered data center campus.
On March 22 at 7 a.m., Shawn Steffee stood on a hill overlooking the Homer City Generating Station with his family and the community he grew up with. They were all looking at Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant for the last time — the plant he and his father,
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