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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Pennhurst Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Penn Hurst Holdings
- Address and locality
- Spring City · Chester County · Pennsylvania
- Official metro area
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 23 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001113
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.
- Electric utility
- PECO
- Power source
- On-site gas
- On-site generation
- 550 MW (source-reported)
- Land area
- 125 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
Provider notes
Energy. Proposal includes an on-site 550 MW natural gas-fired power plant plus 160 backup generators.
Community. East Vincent Township supervisors unanimously rejected the conditional-use application on 2026-05-21; developer appealed on 2026-06-26 to the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
What the source record says
~1.9 million sq ft data center campus (five two-story buildings) on ~125 acres of the historic former Pennhurst State Hospital site in East Vincent Township, with a five-acre substation and an on-site 550 MW gas plant. Township denied conditional use; developer appealing in Chester County court.
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
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Revised plan for a five-building, ~1.9M sq ft data center campus with a 550 MW gas plant on the former Pennhurst State Hospital site; rejected by township and now under court appeal.
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.
- Pennhurst Data Center Developers Add 600,000 Square Feet, Gas Plant in Last-Minute Revision · PHILADELPHIA.Today
- East Vincent Says No to Pennhurst Data Center, But the Fight May Not Be Over · VISTA.Today
- Penn Hurst Holdings Takes Data Center Fight to Chester County Court · PHILADELPHIA.Today
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID pennhurst-data-center-east-vincent-chester-county-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001113
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.
Location and precision
- Spring City, PA · Chester (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Penn Hurst Holdings
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 125 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: PECO
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 550 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-23
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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