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Homer City Energy Campus

Homer City Energy Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) in Pennsylvania, Homer City. 4.50 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) · Brownfield · PJM · Homer City, Pennsylvania, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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Under construction
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Announced-to-energized gap: 4.50 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

8th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses31st by energized capacity93th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 3,645,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by Homer City Redevelopment / Kiewit (source).

Homer City Energy Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced4.50 GW2025-04-02claimedpress release
Energized0 GW2026-08-17reportedjournalist report

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q2 2025 · live Q3 2026 · 1 yr 5 mo build

2018-05-24Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-09-15Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-11Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-08-23Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-06-11Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; 3 on record.

Cooling Tower 1
Building sqft: 61,357
polygon on record (20 vertices)
Cooling Tower 2
Building sqft: 61,357
polygon on record (20 vertices)
Cooling Tower 3
Building sqft: 61,353
polygon on record (20 vertices)

Manifest totals: 184,067 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

4.50 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Homer City Redevelopment (HCR)

Developer

United States

Location

PJM

Grid

brownfield

Land

4.50 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

On the data center map

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The story of Homer City Energy Campus
Announced capex
$10B
Cooling
Surface water from Two Lick Creek; intake volume not disclosed, as cooling decisions are left to data center tenants
Grid
PJM · Connection already in place: the campus reuses a retired coal plant site that holds firm interconnections to both PJM and NYISO, so the generation build does not depend on a new queue position.
Derived
Cost per MW
$2M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterPennsylvania(95)

The deal

grid operator
PJM · Site sits in PJM territory with existing high-capacity transmission/substations from the former coal plant.
developer
Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) · Owner/developer of the former coal-plant brownfield site.
construction
Kiewit Power Constructors · EPC contractor.
construction
GE Vernova · Turbine supplier: seven 7HA.02 hydrogen-capable gas turbines.
financier
Knighthead Capital Management · Financial backer of the redevelopment.

Power

Power source
behind the meter gas
Grid operator
PJM
Interconnection
Connection already in place: the campus reuses a retired coal plant site that holds firm interconnections to both PJM and NYISO, so the generation build does not depend on a new queue position.
Water
Two Lick Creek, volume undisclosed. The creek is fed by Two Lick Reservoir, which holds 5 billion gallons at capacity. The permit application does not state how much water the plant will draw, and the operator has said it cannot answer for the campus because different data center tenants have different water needs.

7x GE Vernova 7HA.02 hydrogen-capable gas turbines, 4.50 GW gas, Under construction. Turbine order placed with GE Vernova; first deliveries 2026, generation by 2027. Kiewit is EPC contractor. Interconnects to PJM.

The PJM grid demand right now: 71.6 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 09:00). Homer City Energy Campus's announced 4.50 GW would be 6.3% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Indiana County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Homer City Energy Campus on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2025-04-01

    Planned 4.5 GW gas-fed AI campus targeting NVIDIA Blackwell tenants

    inferredAnnounced as an AI-first campus. Chip mix not yet published; Blackwell inferred from AI-training positioning.

    Homer City Redevelopment

Why here

Homer City Energy Campus sits on brownfield in Pennsylvania, Homer City. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on behind the meter gas power, interconnection is Connection already in place: the campus reuses a retired coal plant site that holds firm interconnections to both PJM and NYISO, so the generation build does not depend on a new queue position.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Total project investment
$10B press release
Announced cost of the on-site generating project
$10B journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Cooling
Surface water from Two Lick Creek; intake volume not disclosed, as cooling decisions are left to data center tenants source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    claim recorded
    metric:cooling_type
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

1c60d653-887c-4221-ac49-ed56853a4c66 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Homer City Energy Campus?
Homer City Energy Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Homer City. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Homer City Energy Campus use?
Homer City Energy Campus has 4.50 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 4.50 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Homer City Energy Campus?
Homer City Redevelopment (HCR) is recorded as a party to Homer City Energy Campus on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Homer City Energy Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Homer City Energy Campus is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Homer City Energy Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Homer City Energy Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/homer-city-pennsylvania

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