Jurisdiction: US — Pennsylvania (PJM)
Former Robena Mine site, Monongahela Township, near Alicia, Greene County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River. ~1,400-acre complex. (Prior use is a former coal mine, not a retired power plant — see note on prior_use field.)
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Robena Mine Data Center (Project Hummingbird) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Capital | baseline | 40 | Robena Mine Data Center (Project Hummingbird) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | prior use interconnection | +8 | Robena Mine Data Center (Project Hummingbird) | Brownfield site — Repurposed industrial / telecom site — inherits an existing energized grid interconnection, materially de-risking the scarcest deliverability bottleneck for a new AI/HPC load (§B.2.3). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Robena Mine Data Center (Project Hummingbird) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Utility Approval | Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2025-12-17. |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Robena Mine Data Center (Project Hummingbird) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Utility Approval | Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-12-17). |
Commissioning · Expected:
Utility approval · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| International Electric Power (IEP) | — | — | |
| Essential Utilities | — | — | |
| Peoples (Essential Utilities natural gas subsidiary) | — | — | |
| Project Hummingbird LLC | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
International Electric Power · backs: capacity mw
https://iepwr.com/227-2/
Farm and Dairy · backs: actual date
https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/top-stories/greene-county-residents-debate-proposal-to-put-data-center-on-former-coal-mine/900898.html
Utility Dive · backs: expected date
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/iep-plans-944-mw-behind-the-meter-gas-plant-in-pennsylvania-to-power-data-c/758830/
DataCenterDynamics · backs: status
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/data-center-proposed-at-site-of-former-coal-mine-in-greene-county-pennsylvania/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Observer-Reporter
Utility Dive
Farm and Dairy
DataCenterDynamics
International Electric Power
Pittsburgh Magazine