Western Pennsylvania appears poised for what could be the biggest infrastructure boom since the end of the steel era.
A new industry, one forged in server racks instead of blast furnaces, is increasingly eyeing the region: data centers.
Just in the past year, developers have announced billions of dollars of investments for several massive campuses that would draw more power than entire cities.
The project planned at Homer City’s former power plant in Indiana County would draw more than four gigawatts of power, while a $10 billion campus along the Ohio River in the small Beaver County community of Shippingport could have similar power needs.