Switch Big Beaver Campus 1.2GW AI Data Center

Status: Under Development / Site Permitting   |   Location: Pendale Road, Wampum, Pennsylvania 16157, USA

Project Overview

The Switch Big Beaver Campus, located along Pendale Road in Big Beaver Borough near Wampum, Pennsylvania, is a planned gigawatt-scale data center development designed to support next-generation high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and other compute-intensive workloads. Situated across several hundred acres in Beaver County, the proposed campus is planned to deliver up to 1.2 GW of critical power capacity, positioning it as a large-scale digital infrastructure development serving potential demand across the broader Mid-Atlantic and Midwest technology corridors. The project is intended to accommodate the growing infrastructure requirements of hyperscale cloud platforms, AI model training, machine learning applications, and enterprise computing environments that depend on substantial power availability and scalable data center capacity. Its planned scale reflects the increasing demand for purpose-built facilities capable of supporting high-density computing deployments, where electrical infrastructure, cooling systems, network connectivity, and operational resilience are central considerations. The development also forms part of Switch’s broader national expansion strategy, which focuses on building large, secure data center infrastructure designed to meet evolving enterprise and technology requirements. At this scale, power delivery and supporting utility infrastructure are particularly important to the project’s development and eventual operating capacity. The campus’s proposed critical power capacity represents a planned development target rather than confirmation of fully commissioned infrastructure. Its progress will depend on construction execution, utility coordination, permitting, and the delivery of supporting infrastructure. If developed as planned, the Switch Big Beaver Campus could contribute to Pennsylvania’s expanding digital infrastructure landscape while strengthening the region’s potential role in supporting large-scale AI, cloud computing, and other data-intensive services.

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