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Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix)

Shippingport / Bruce Mansfield Data Center (Project Phoenix)

Permitted
Confirmed
Retired power plant · inherited interconnection

Jurisdiction: US — Pennsylvania (PJM)

Shippingport Industrial Park, former Bruce Mansfield Power Plant site, Shippingport Borough, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; ~30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Capacity
3,600 MW basis: grid connection
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$10.0B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

68.7 /100
68.7/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

76 /100
76/100

Infrastructure

78 /100
78/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

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.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
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).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Aligned Data Centers
Developer
The Frontier Group of Companies
Owner
The Frontier Group of Companies
Utility Provider

Sources & citations

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.

  1. 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/

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Feb 3, 2026 · backs: actual date, capex usd

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/shippingport-industrial-park/

  3. TribLive · Feb 5, 2026 · backs: capacity mw, status

    https://community.triblive.com/news/3974611

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · TribLive

  2. · Data Center Dynamics

  3. · The Frontier Group of Companies