Pins matching date:2025-08-01

Provident Data Centers (through its affiliate Wampum I LLC) purchased the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex ("Pitt Race") for $50 million to develop data centers. Owners Jim and Kathy Stout announced the sale of the over 400-acre site in October 2025, and the beloved racing facility closed its doors a month later. Switch has since announced plans for a 382-acre data center campus on that same property, with Provident as landowner and Switch as the campus developer and operator. Big Beaver Borough has confirmed Switch's intention to develop the former Pitt Race property at 201 Penndale Road, though the company has apparently not yet submitted a formal application. The overall project cost is projected to be between $80-$200 million.

QTS, a Blackstone company, is building a seven-building data center campus on 612 acres of Alliant Energy's Big Cedar Industrial Center in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with an estimated $10 billion total investment. Ground was broken on the first building in August 2025, the first three buildings topped out in October 2025 and Epoch's October 2026 imagery shows them externally complete but still being commissioned. QTS targets phase one in 2026 and phase two in 2027.

In August 2025 convenience-store owner Alpesh Patel's attorney asked Blakely Borough to rezone a residential tract for an AI data center of four buildings using about 1.5 gigawatts. After more than 100 residents objected, the developers withdrew the zoning request on 12 September 2025 and said the data center would no longer be pursued. Blakely then advanced a zoning amendment limiting future data centers to one overlay district.

Brewster Land Co. of Dorrance LLC wants to build a six-building data center on a 155-acre highway-business parcel at South Main and Yeager Roads in Dorrance Township, Luzerne County, but has filed no development application. It challenged the township zoning ordinance as exclusionary in August 2025; the Zoning Hearing Board unanimously denied the challenge on May 6, 2026, and the company appealed to Luzerne County court (reported Aug. 31, 2026). No power load, cost or schedule is published.