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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Homer City Redevelopment
- Address and locality
- Homer City · Indiana County · Pennsylvania
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 4,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000793
What the source record says
EPC contractor: Kiewit.
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
- 2025-04-02 · reported proposed
Announced as conversion of former Homer City coal plant (retired 2023); $10B project; 3,200 acres; $5M PA state grant; environmental permit challenged by groups
- 2025 · reported under construction
Ground broken; ~1,200 workers on-site as of 2026; first vertical steel beams raised; GE Vernova turbine deliveries beginning 2026; power targeted 2027
Sources and attribution
- In Western Pennsylvania, a former coal town gets a gas-fired data center — The Allegheny Front · The Allegheny Front
- Homer City power plant to boost grid as data-center demand rises — Axios Pittsburgh · Axios
- Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit announce country's largest natural-gas-powered data-center campus — GE Vernova · GE Vernova
- Homer City Generation Site Redevelopment — Pennsylvania DEP · Pennsylvania DEP
- Largest US gas-fired power plant planned for data centers in Pennsylvania — Utility Dive · Utility Dive
- New power plants for data centers would worsen pollution — Spotlight PA · Spotlight PA
- Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit Announce Country's Largest Natural Gas-Powered Data Center Campus · Business Wire
- Homer City and Kiewit unveil plans for 4.5GW natural gas powered AI data center in Pennsylvania · DataCenterDynamics
- Project Overview - Homer City Redevelopment · Homer City Redevelopment
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID homer-city-energy-campus-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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