Aligned Data Centers’ Project Phoenix is a massive $10 billion redevelopment of the former Bruce Mansfield coal plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. In partnership with the Frontier Group of Companies, the project is transforming the 660-acre site into a premier hub for hyperscale AI and high-performance computing.
The campus is designed to include three massive data center buildings, with each facility spanning over 600,000 square feet. By co-locating these expansive facilities with a newly converted 3.6 GW natural gas-fired power station, the project creates a "vertically integrated" ecosystem that provides high-density, "behind-the-meter" power directly to the site. This strategic reuse of legacy industrial infrastructure not only revitalizes the region with thousands of jobs but also establishes a new standard for gigascale, AI-ready digital infrastructure in the United States.
The Shippingport Industrial Park occupies the former site of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, a 2.49 GW coal facility that operated from 1976 until its decommissioning in 2019. After acquiring the property from Energy Harbor Corp in 2022, the Frontier Group of Companies announced a $3.2 billion 'coal-to-gas' redevelopment.
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| 0.96 miles | Standard Power: Beaver Valley |
Standard Power, a blockchain company, has partnered with Vistra Corp. to construct a large-scale, carbon-free data center adjacent to the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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| 1.87 miles | Big Digital Energy: Midland, PA |
Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc has deployed its Modular Data Centre (MDC) bitcoin mining solution to the Midland site. The Midland site now has a total capacity of 120 MW.
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| 15.24 miles | Switch: Big Beaver PIT03 |
Switch plans PIT 03 as the third building at its proposed Big Beaver data center campus on the former Pittsburgh-area racetrack.
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| 15.28 miles | Switch: Big Beaver PIT02 |
Switch plans PIT 02 as the second of three data center buildings proposed at its Big Beaver campus in Pennsylvania.
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| 15.30 miles | Switch: Big Beaver PIT01 |
Switch is planning a new data center campus on the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex property in Big Beaver Borough, northwest of Pittsburgh, expanding its U.S. campus footprint into Pennsylvania.
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| 15.30 miles | Provident: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
The proposed redevelopment of the former Pitt International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania, represents a massive 400-acre land banking play by Texas-based developer Provident Data Centers.
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| 17.33 miles | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2 |
Databank acquired the facility in 2019 from PNC Bank in a sale-leaseback transaction. BNC Bank occupies the entire second floor.
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| 19.72 miles | Ardent (Northern Data): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Ardent Data Centers, a Northern Data Group company, has finalized the acquisition of a new data center site in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 41,000 sq ft (3,900 sqm) expanded the site to 20MW.
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Aligned Data Centers is an infrastructure technology company that offers colocation and build-to-scale solutions to cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers.
In early 2022, Aligned Energy was rebranded to Aligned Data Centers.
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