1M SF Data Center Proposed in South Huntingdon Township

TriEnergy Inc. of Sewickley has proposed a 1 million-square-foot data center on the Stanton Farm site off Route 31 near Mount Pleasant Road and the I-70 interchange in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County. The single warehouse building would house the project; some reports cite up to 1.1 million square feet.

TriEnergy applied in May 2026 for a township land use permit as developer of the project, with Stanton Farm LLC as the property owner. Managing member is F. William Humphrey. Stanton Farm LLC owns the land, having acquired 178 acres along Route 31 in September 2021, though the Pittsburgh Business Times cites 118 acres. Douglas Sippel is listed by the state as a governor of Stanton Farm LLC. TriEnergy and Stanton Farm signed a three-year agreement for the project in October 2025.

The site sits less than a mile from the Route 31/I-70 interchange, just east of the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival entrance, and about a mile from the Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station, a roughly 950-megawatt natural gas-fired plant. The developer declined to say whether the data center would draw power from it.

Permitting remains incomplete. The Westmoreland Conservation District approved a wastewater discharge permit for a warehouse on the site in January 2025; it expires in December 2029. The DEP has not approved a sewage permit, blocking township review of land development plans. South Huntingdon adopted a data center ordinance on Sept. 17, 2026, requiring a 500-foot setback and other conditions. The township has no SALDO, so the Westmoreland County Planning Division would review the site plan.