The Homer City Generating Station, which was formerly the largest coal-burning power plant in Pennsylvania, will soon have a new identity.
The plant, which closed in July 2023 after nearly 55 years of providing power to Pennsylvania and New York, will be transformed into a more than 3,200-acre natural gas–powered data center campus, designed to meet the growing artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) needs of technology companies, Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) and Kiewit Power Constructors Co. recently announced.
The 1,888-megawatt coal plant began generating electricity in 1969 when the first two units entered service. Unit 3 was added in 1977, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). For 30 years, the plant operated almost continuously, achieving a utilization rate near 90 percent.
In 1999, a period when Pennsylvania was deregulating its electricity market, the Homer City plant sold for $1.8 billion. According
