Dynamo DC, through Allegheny DC PropCo LLC and backed by the investment firm Davidson Kempner, is developing the Springdale Dynamo data center on the former Cheswick Generating Station site along the Allegheny River in Springdale Borough. The current design is one building about 75 feet tall, built out in four stages for AI hardware, with diesel backup generators and closed-loop rooftop chillers. The developer is studying power supply with Duquesne Light and FirstEnergy.
Springdale Borough Council approved the conditional use in December 2025. Allegheny County is reviewing the land development plan, and the project still needs state and county permits before construction, which the developer targets for 2027.
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| 4.62 miles | MSA: Rockpointe |
MSA's RockPointe data center is the original Tier III colocation facility of Management Science Associates, in West Deer Township north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 4.64 miles | Consolidated Rockpointe |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's RockPointe data center in West Deer Township until about 2025.
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| 4.96 miles | Ascent Data: Pittsburgh |
Ascent Data runs a SOC 2 audited data center for its managed IT and colocation customers in the RIDC Park in O'Hara Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 5.24 miles | University of Pittsburgh: NOC |
The University of Pittsburgh's Network Operations Center in the RIDC Park, O'Hara Township, is the university's enterprise data center for IT and research computing.
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| 7.72 miles | TECfusions: New Kensington, PA |
TECfusions' Keystone Connect is an AI data center campus at the former Alcoa Technical Center in Upper Burrell Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 8.26 miles | Next Tier Connect: Pittsburgh East |
Next Tier Connect Pittsburgh East is a mission-critical technology campus in the former Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville that hosts the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2.
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| 8.40 miles | iM Critical: Pittsburgh |
iM Critical's Pittsburgh campus is a modular high-density data center site on Brinton Road at the Wilkinsburg-Edgewood border, east of downtown.
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| 9.64 miles | aspStation: Pittsburgh |
aspStation runs a small colocation and cloud data center in its own building on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's East End, built by IBM in 1990.
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| 10.34 miles | Verizon: 530 N Neville St |
Verizon's Oakland central office in Pittsburgh holds the host switch that now serves many of the area's former exchanges, plus a regional signaling hub.
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| 10.87 miles | Cogent: 3126 Liberty Ave |
Cogent's Pittsburgh data center is a colocation facility in the former Sprint network building on Liberty Avenue, at the edge of the Strip District.
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| 11.62 miles | Lumen: Pittsburgh 2 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 2 site is a network switching and colocation building on Technology Drive in the Pittsburgh Technology Center.
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| 11.67 miles | H5 Pittsburgh |
H5 Pittsburgh is a colocation data center in Pittsburgh's Strip District that H5 Data Centers bought from vXchnge in 2022.
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| 11.87 miles | Consolidated Evergreen |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's Evergreen Heights data center north of Pittsburgh until about 2025.
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| 11.88 miles | MSA: Evergreen Hights |
MSA's Evergreen Heights data center is a Tier III-designed colocation facility in a hillside bunker in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh.
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| 12.27 miles | Lumen Pittsburgh 1 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 1 site is a network gateway and colocation building on South 25th Street in Pittsburgh's South Side Flats.
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| 12.68 miles | AT&T: 635 Grant St |
AT&T's 16-story network building at 635 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, owned by Reign Capital since a 2021 sale-leaseback.
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| 12.69 miles | Verizon: 416 7th Ave |
Verizon's Downtown Pittsburgh central office in the 20-story Bell Telephone Building houses the area's main tandem switch and a regional signaling hub.
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| 12.74 miles | Verizon: 3 Allegheny Ctr |
A former XO Communications network and colocation node at 3 Allegheny Center on Pittsburgh's North Side; the building now holds apartments.
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| 12.79 miles | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1 |
DataBank PIT1 is a carrier-neutral colocation data center in Nova Place on Pittsburgh's North Side that hosts the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange.
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| 12.81 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side) |
Expedient's North Side data center is a colocation and cloud facility in Nova Place, the former Allegheny Center Mall, on Pittsburgh's North Side.
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| 13.00 miles | DQE Communications Pittsburgh |
DQE Communications' downtown Pittsburgh colocation room and network node inside the Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue.
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| 13.00 miles | E.V. Bishoff: Pittsburgh Tech Center |
The Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue is E.V. Bishoff's downtown data center and telecom building, home to DQE and several colocation providers.
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| 13.19 miles | American Tower: Pittsburgh |
American Tower's Pittsburgh edge data center is a small modular colocation facility at a tower site in southern Pittsburgh.
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| 14.49 miles | EdgeConneX Pittsburgh |
EdgeConneX Pittsburgh is an edge colocation data center west of downtown Pittsburgh in a building EdgeConneX owns.
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| 15.30 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (Green Tree) |
Expedient's Green Tree data center is the company's original Pittsburgh colocation facility, in Green Tree Borough south-west of downtown.
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| 16.88 miles | Ark: Pittsburgh Northpointe |
Ark's Pittsburgh data center is a colocation facility in the Northpointe Technology Center in Armstrong County, built by Involta in 2017 with UPMC as anchor tenant.
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| 16.95 miles | Chirisa: Pittsburgh, PA |
Chirisa Technology Parks bought BNY Mellon's former data center in the Northpointe Technology Center near Freeport, Armstrong County, to redevelop it for AI workloads.
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| 17.18 miles | Henderson Road Data Center |
Hendricks Group proposes a large data center campus with its own gas power plant on a former landfill on Henderson Road in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County.
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| 19.70 miles | Ardent (Northern Data): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Ardent Data Centers, part of Northern Data, runs an AI-ready colocation data center in Robinson Township, west of Pittsburgh.
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Dynamo DC is a data center development company that builds AI data centers on remediated brownfield sites and former energy campuses across Appalachia, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic. The New York hedge fund Davidson Kempner backs the company, which is based in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Its project entity, Allegheny DC Property Co., LLC, owns the Springdale site.
Its flagship project is the Springdale Data Center, branded the Springdale Dynamo, on the 47-acre site of the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale Borough, Allegheny County. The current design is a single 652,300 square foot hyperscale facility. Allegheny County held land development hearings on the project in October 2026.
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