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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Ardent Data Centers Pittsburgh (McKees Rocks).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Ardent Data Centers (Northern Data Group)
- Address and locality
- McKees Rocks · Allegheny County · Pennsylvania
- Official metro area
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 5 MW; Planned: 20 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000090
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 7.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
Provider notes
Water. High-density HPC build using rear-door heat exchangers and direct-to-chip liquid cooling; operator target PUE of 1.2 or lower.
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- Cooling: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
41,000 sq ft building on 7.5 acres in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, acquired by Ardent (Northern Data Group) in January 2024 with 5 MW in place and a phased path to 20 MW. Purpose-built for GPU/HPC workloads at 135 kW+ rack densities. Street address is reported by third-party directories as 615 McMichael Road but was not confirmed in the sources cited here, so it is omitted.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024-01-22 · source-reported operational
Acquisition of the existing Pennsylvania data center completed; conversion to a high-density HPC facility expected complete Q4 2024, scaling to 20 MW.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Ardent Data Centers, a Northern Data Group company, completes acquisition of Pennsylvania data center · Northern Data Group via PR Newswire
- Data Centers in Pennsylvania — Project List & Locations (HPC data center, Northern Data, Allegheny, 20 MW) · Cleanview
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID ardent-pittsburgh-mckees-rocks-pa. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000090
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- McKees Rocks, PA · Allegheny (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Ardent Data Centers (Northern Data Group)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2024-01-22 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 7.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 5 MW; Planned: 20 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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