Amazon in Talks to Land Data Centers at Homer City Gas Plant

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now in talks to build a data center campus next to the Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, PA — meaning the company that already pledged $20 billion for data centers in eastern PA (see our prior coverage here) may now be circling the massive Marcellus-fed gas plant project we've covered extensively in western PA. The news broke via TribLive, which obtained emails through a Right-to-Know (freedom of information) request showing Amazon has been talking with Homer City Redevelopment (HCR), the company converting the old Homer City coal plant site into a 3,200-acre, 4.5-gigawatt (GW) natural gas-fired power plant and data center campus (see our story, Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). Amazon confirmed the talks in a statement but stressed no deal is signed. No word yet on how big a footprint Amazon might want, or how much gas-fired power it would draw. We'll keep digging.

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