Butler Co. Data Center Plans 300 MW Behind-the-Meter Gas Plant

Another big data center is heading to western Pennsylvania, and this one plans to make its own power with a natural gas-fired plant, right next door to a shale gas well pad. A Florida LLC and a Coraopolis microgrid company have filed preliminary plans for the Misty Hollow Energy & Data Campus: a 1-million-square-foot data center and a 300-megawatt power generation facility on a former dairy farm along Prospect Road (PA Route 528) in Forward Township, Butler County. The site sits next to a PennEnergy Resources well pad, and the township engineer wants a letter from PennEnergy signing off on the plan's revised access to that pad. The developer now confirms the 300 MW plant will run on natural gas, and it will power the campus "behind the meter," off the grid. Correction, Sept. 24, 2026: An earlier version of this story said PennEnergy Resources would give the project access to its well pad. The township engineer's review letter actually asks for an acknowledgment letter from PennEnergy about revised access to PennEnergy's own well pad. We regret the error. The story has also been updated with a statement from the developer.

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