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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Penn Hurst Holdings
- Address and locality
- Spring City · Chester County · Pennsylvania
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 23 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001113
What the source record says
~1.9 million sq ft data center campus (five two-story buildings) on ~125 acres of the historic former Pennhurst State Hospital site in East Vincent Township, with a five-acre substation and an on-site 550 MW gas plant. Township denied conditional use; developer appealing in Chester County court.
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
- 2026-03 · reported proposed
Revised plan for a five-building, ~1.9M sq ft data center campus with a 550 MW gas plant on the former Pennhurst State Hospital site; rejected by township and now under court appeal.
Sources and attribution
- Pennhurst Data Center Developers Add 600,000 Square Feet, Gas Plant in Last-Minute Revision · PHILADELPHIA.Today
- East Vincent Says No to Pennhurst Data Center, But the Fight May Not Be Over · VISTA.Today
- Penn Hurst Holdings Takes Data Center Fight to Chester County Court · PHILADELPHIA.Today
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID pennhurst-data-center-east-vincent-chester-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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