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Aliquippa Data Center (former J&L Steel site)

reported proposed

Five 9s Digital

Aliquippa · Beaver County · Pennsylvania

Planned 496 MWSource updated 10 September 2026approximate location · rumored source confidence
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Facility snapshot

Operator as published
Five 9s Digital
Address and locality
Aliquippa · Beaver County · Pennsylvania
Lifecycle status
reported proposed
Facility type
data center
Reported capacity
Planned: 496 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
Source freshness
10 September 2026
Location precision
approximate
Source confidence
rumored
Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000054

What the source record says

Operator attribution is unsettled and deliberately conservative: Five 9s Digital advertises the site, CB Tech Partners LLC is described as the purported purchaser with ties to Fezzik Energy, and Data Center Knowledge separately describes a Blackstone-backed redevelopment of an abandoned Aliquippa steel mill. Confidence is 'rumored' for that reason. No investment figure is recorded — the reported $25 billion is an entity/regional figure that has not been tied to this site by any source read here. Parcel is not geocoded in the records consulted; coordinates are city-level. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked a project-tracking dossier (2026-09-10) which explicitly states no public records have been linked to this specific project yet ('We haven't linked public records to this project yet') and lists community-organizing groups for several OTHER Pennsylvania data-center fights (Archbald, East Vincent, Limerick, Hanover, Penn Forest) but none for Aliquippa. Only Gov. Josh Shapiro's general 2025 statement that 'developers must generate their own power or pay for the additional draw on the grid' and that 'Pennsylvanians have real concerns about these data centers' is state-level, not specific to this site.

Capacity is not ranked or totaled here.

Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.

Status history supplied by the source

  1. 2026-04-27 · reported proposed

    Project listed as announced; no public land-use records linked to it at that date.

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Sources and attribution

Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aliquippa-data-center-beaver-county-pa. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.

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