W. Texas Gas Data Center to Topple Homer City as Nation’s Biggest

Last April, Knighthead Capital Management, Homer City Redevelopment (HCR), and Kiewit Power Constructors Co. announced a plan to convert the former Homer City Generating Station, previously the largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania (Indiana County, 50 miles east of Pittsburgh) into a more than 3,200-acre natural gas-powered data center campus, designed to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (see Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). A new gas-fired plant attached to the project was slated to become THE LARGEST gas-fired power plant in the country, capable of producing up to 4.5 gigawatts (4,500 MW) of electricity. Scratch that. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the GW Ranch project, an 8,000-acre AI data center to be powered by a monster 7.65 GW gas-fired power plant.

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