PPL: Data and Operations Center

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PPL: Data and Operations Center

Year Built: 2013
Utility Provider: PPL Electric Utilities
Ownership: PPL Corporation owns the building.
Lot Size: 13 acres
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PPL built its Data and Operations Center near Route 100 and Interstate 78 in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, to house a next-generation corporate data center and its electric system operations center. PPL announced the project in June 2011, began construction that fall and completed it in late 2012.

Site History

  • Late 2012: The building is completed.
  • June 2011: PPL announces the project.

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2.11 miles Cetronia 2
This facility was planned to be part of the Cetronia Road Data Center Campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
2.26 miles Cetronia 1
Plans to construct a 2.6 million-square-foot data center campus outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, have been officially scrapped after local officials rejected the application.
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3.47 miles Colocation America - Philadelphia DC1
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3.54 miles TierPoint: TekPark Expansion
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5.78 miles Edged: Project Atlas
Project Atlas is being proposed by applicant CDE Acquisitions, LLC, which is pursuing the data center campus as the prospective purchaser of the 410-acre property currently owned by Jeras Corporation.
7.41 miles Quantm: Allentown Emaus Avenue
Quantm Group plans to convert a vacant warehouse on West Emaus Avenue in Allentown into a data center.
8.76 miles J.G. Petrucci: Allentown
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8.97 miles Serfass: Allentown Roble Road
A former Flexential data center on Roble Road in Allentown, now offered for redevelopment as a larger data center by its new owners.
9.11 miles DataBridge: Allentown PA
A former colocation data center in Allentown that operated as AGILE Allentown and later under DataBridge Sites; it closed by early 2021.
10.73 miles Prologis: Northampton, PA
Prologis has secured unanimous conditional use approval from the Allen Township Board of Supervisors to convert its 1.01 million-square-foot warehouse into a data center.
11.02 miles Paxos: Bethlehem Industrial Drive
Paxos Enterprises and Boyle Construction propose a two-story data center on Industrial Drive in the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Bethlehem.
13.89 miles TierPoint Lehigh Valley
TierPoint’s Lehigh Valley facility in Bethlehem, is located along the Lehigh Valley Thruway. In addition to the data center, the facility has office space and/or disaster recovery suites.
13.89 miles Colocation America - Philadelphia DC3
13.90 miles TierPoint Bethlehem
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PPL Corporation is a publicly traded utility holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its regulated utilities serve about 3.6 million customers. PPL Electric Utilities delivers electricity in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities serve Kentucky and five Virginia counties, and Rhode Island Energy serves Rhode Island.

PPL also owns a data and operations center in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County. The company announced it in 2011 to house its corporate computing and its system operations center.

PPL Corporation History:

  • In May 2022, PPL acquired The Narragansett Electric Company and renamed it Rhode Island Energy.
  • In June 2021, PPL sold its U.K. utility business, Western Power Distribution, to National Grid.
  • In June 2015, PPL spun off its competitive power generation business, which combined with generation assets of Riverstone Holdings to form Talen Energy.
  • In November 2010, PPL acquired Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities from E.ON.
  • Founded in 1920 in Pennsylvania as Pennsylvania Power & Light, through the merger of eight utilities.
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