Project Phoenix data center campus (former Bruce Mansfield power plant)
Also called: Project Phoenix, Aligned Shippingport, Shippingport Industrial Park, Shippingport Power Station & Data Center
Aligned Data Centers started building a 2 gigawatt data center campus on the old Bruce Mansfield coal plant land in tiny Shippingport Borough. It will run on gas power made on site. The company promises about 640 permanent jobs.
Where things stand: Borough approved conditional use in December 2025 and phase 2 of the land development plan in September 2026. Aligned broke ground September 10, 2026.
🕒 Latest update (Sept 21, 2026): Shippingport leaders approved phase 2 of Aligned's land development plan while neighbors raised concerns.
What we know
- 📍 WhereFormer Bruce Mansfield coal plant, now the 660-acre Shippingport Industrial Park on the Ohio River, Shippingport, Beaver County
- 🏢 CompanyAligned Data Centers (data center); Frontier Group of Companies (site owner and gas power plant)
- 🏛️ Owned byAligned is owned by a group including AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners (reported)
- 🌳 Size660 acres
- ⚡ Power it needs2,000 megawatts (about as much as 1,600,000 homes)
- 🔌 Where the power comes fromIts own gas power on site (Frontier Group plans a 2.7 gigawatt gas plant at the old Shippingport power station), not mainly the public grid. Extra power may be sold to the grid.
- ❄️ CoolingClosed-loop cooling that the company says needs no water for day-to-day cooling
- 💵 Cost$10 billion
- 👷 Jobs promised640
❓ Still unanswered
Nobody has answered these in public yet. Can you help find out?
- How much water will the campus and gas plant take from the Ohio River each day? 🙋 I'll find out
- Has DEP issued an air permit for the gas power plant or fuel cells? 🙋 I'll find out
- Who is the tenant (which tech company)? 🙋 I'll find out
- How many diesel backup generators will there be? 🙋 I'll find out
- Was a secret deal (NDA) signed with Shippingport Borough or Beaver County? 🙋 I'll find out
- Will the project get a property tax break (such as KOZ or LERTA)? 🙋 I'll find out
What happened so far
- 2019Bruce Mansfield coal plant closed.
- Dec 2025Borough council approved the conditional use.
- Dec 5, 2025Conditional use application filed with Shippingport Borough.
- Sept 10, 2026Aligned Data Centers broke ground on a 2 gigawatt, three-building campus, called a $10 billion investment.
- Sept 21, 2026Shippingport leaders approved phase 2 of Aligned's land development plan while neighbors raised concerns.
Local votes and rules
✅ Approved
Shippingport council approved Aligned Data Centers' plan for up to three data center buildings, about 2 million square feet in total. The project, called Project Phoenix, includes its own natural gas power plant.
📜 Data center rules
Shippingport passed its first data center zoning law in March 2025. It was written before the borough learned about Aligned's plan for a huge campus next to the closed Bruce Mansfield power plant.
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Where this comes from
- Aligned begins construction on gigawatt-scale data center campus in Pennsylvania · Baxtel · Sept 17, 2026
- Ground Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport's Data Hub Rises · HotAir (Salena Zito) · Sept 26, 2026
- Beaver Valley becomes data center target · TMIA (reprint)
- Data center industry expands hopes in Western Pa., but its future remains uncertain · Tribune-Review / Mon Valley Independent · Aug 3, 2026
- New data center complex breaks ground in Shippingport · Beaver County Times (via Yahoo) · Sept 13, 2026
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