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The scramble for dedicated power across the United States artificial intelligence buildout has reached Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale country.
Alpha Compute, a British Virgin Islands-incorporated AI infrastructure company, signed a binding term sheet to acquire land and natural gas rights in northern Pennsylvania for $55 million, Chief Executive Brittany Kaiser told Reuters, targeting a 200-megawatt data center campus.
The deal covers about 1,800 mineral acres of undeveloped Marcellus gas rights and would include on-site gas-fired power generation.
Kaiser said she expects to close the transaction after a 60-day diligence period, with the campus beginning operations in the third quarter of 2027.
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