Search Results for: "Upper Burrell"

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PA’s Community Colleges Big Winners re Data Center Buildout

Pennsylvania’s community colleges stand to be big winners in the data center sweepstakes. In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to…

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Strategy Revealed for Building 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center in SWPA

In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.). The site is the old Alcoa R&D campus and the surrounding…

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The Future of AI Data Centers Has Been Found: It’s in Western PA

In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.). In early April, MDN brought you the exciting news that THE…

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Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center in SWPA to Use Local Wells

In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.). The site is the old Alcoa R&D campus and the surrounding…

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Surging Interest in Building Data Centers in PA; 6 Announced So Far

In early April, MDN brought you the exciting news that THE largest gas-fired power plant in the country, along with a MASSIVE data center complex, will be built at a former coal-fired power plant site in Indiana County, PA (see Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). The site will be…

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Massive 3 GW SWPA Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Builder to Speak at Conf

MDN has written numerous posts about AI (artificial intelligence) and the data centers that provide the computing power AI requires. Why? AI data centers use enormous amounts of electricity, most of which is generated by natural gas-fired power plants. Some 25% of all the data centers currently operating in the country are located in northern…

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PJM Report: PA in Desperate Need of More Gas-Fired Power Plants

According to a recent report from PJM Interconnection, the manager of the electric grid in all or parts of 13 states plus D.C., three electric transmission zones that are wholly or partly in Pennsylvania are expected to see sharp increases in power demand from current and new data centers in the next few years. For…

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Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.

We have some exciting news to share. Datacenter builder/operator TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, has purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect. The site is the old Alcoa R&D campus and surrounding real estate in New Kensington. The project will transform the shuttered…

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Allegheny Twp Leases Under Tredway Trail to Olympus for $2,200/Ac

These days we don’t often see the contract details for new leases signed by landowners to allow shale drilling. We used to see and report on large landowner coalitions and the deals they had struck back in the earlier days of the Marcellus/Utica. But today, about the only time you get any kind of insight…

Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Feb 1, 2022

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Hearing set for Marcellus Shale gas compressor station in Upper Burrell; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Frigid Canadian winter slashes gas exports to Midwest as demand soars; NATIONAL: Over $1B available for U.S. orphaned O&G well clean up jobs; McDermott starts-up carbon footprint calculation tool; INTERNATIONAL: Natural gas markets under extreme duress.

Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Dec 8, 2021

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Former supervisors ask Upper Burrell to add 2 more seats – ties to Marcellus; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Train 6 at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass produces 1st LNG cargo; Coal retirements, supply constraints promise upside for gas in MISO this winter; NATIONAL: Biden official heckled after urging shale boost; ConocoPhillips says USA regulations hold back…

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Olympus Energy Seeks Approval for Compressor Station in SWPA

Olympus Energy (formerly Huntley & Huntley) is expanding its drilling program in Upper Burrell, in Westmoreland County, PA, near Pittsburgh (see Olympus Energy’s 3rd Upper Burrell Well Pad Wins Unanimous Approval). Along with all the new wells the company is drilling comes the need for pipelines to flow the gas, and along with the pipelines…

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Westmoreland County to Sell Reservoir Water to Olympus for Fracking

Earlier this month MDN told you about a new/third well pad planned by Olympus Energy in Upper Burrell Township in Westmoreland County, PA that received unanimous approval by town supervisors (see Olympus Energy’s 3rd Upper Burrell Well Pad Wins Unanimous Approval). More good news for Olympus: Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County board members have voted…

Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Jun 2, 2021

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Hearing set for Olympus Marcellus shale gas valve site in Upper Burrell; Bucks County opens new Creek Road bridge in Warwick Township; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Tellurian likely to start construction on Driftwood project this summer; Justices won’t review Ill. fracking moratorium; NATIONAL: Hydrogen, RNG ‘not ready for prime time’ in gas grid –…

Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 16, 2021

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Another Marcellus shale well pad coming to Upper Burrell; Muhlenberg poll finds health concerns over fracking, climate change decline in PA; Newer-technology natural gas-fired generators are utilized more than older units in PJM; W.Va. high court orders judge disqualified from EQT lawsuits; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Council on Environmental Justice asks Northam to institute…