Jurisdiction: US — Pennsylvania (PJM)
Shippingport Industrial Park, former Bruce Mansfield Power Plant site, Shippingport Borough, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; ~30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
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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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | prior use interconnection | +8 | Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix) | Brownfield site — Retired power plant — 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 | Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Utility Approval | Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2026-02-01. |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-07-15). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Utility Approval | Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-02-01). |
Announcement · Actual:
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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| Aligned Data Centers | — | — | |
| The Frontier Group of Companies | — | — | |
| The Frontier Group of Companies | — | — |
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.
The Frontier Group of Companies · Jul 15, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://frontier-companies.com/the-frontier-group-of-companies-to-transform-bruce-mansfield-power-plant-into-state-of-the-art-natural-gas-power-plant-supporting-americas-energy-goals-and-pennsylvanias-economic-gr/
Data Center Dynamics · Feb 3, 2026 · backs: actual date, capex usd
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/shippingport-industrial-park/
TribLive · Feb 5, 2026 · backs: capacity mw, status
https://community.triblive.com/news/3974611
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· TribLive
· Data Center Dynamics
· The Frontier Group of Companies