Amazon Web Services has filed a Preliminary Land Development Plan for a 36-building data center campus at the Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, roughly 50 miles east of Pittsburgh. The campus will span 1,100 acres across Center and Blacklick Townships, with each building reaching 70 feet in height and 225,000 square feet of floor space. Construction is scheduled to begin in December 2026 across four phases, with full completion targeted by June 2036; the project is expected to create 1,500 to 2,000 jobs paying average salaries of $80,000 to $100,000. The campus will draw power from a 4.5 GW natural gas facility being built by Homer City Redevelopment on the former site of Pennsylvania's largest coal-burning power plant, with more than 1 GW to be returned to the grid.
At 36 buildings across 1,100 acres, the Homer City campus is one of the largest single data center developments filed by any hyperscaler to date, with Amazon having pledged $20 billion in Pennsylvania investment across multiple campuses. The project also demonstrates a direct link between retired fossil fuel infrastructure and new AI data center development, with a 4.5 GW gas plant purpose-built to serve the campus.
A 36-building AWS campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania represents one of the largest single campus announcements from a hyperscaler in recent memory, making it highly newsworthy for scale and regional economic impact.