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Homer City Redevelopment Announces Agreement in Principle for EQT Corporation to Supply Nation’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Data Center Campus
INDIANA COUNTY, Pa., July 15, 2025--Homer City Redevelopment ("HCR") today announced an agreement in principle (the "Agreement") for EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) ("EQT") to serve as HCR’s exclusive partner to source and supply the natural gas needed to power the 4.4 gigawatt natural gas facility that will serve the Homer City Energy Campus — a 3,200 acre AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center campus currently under construction and slated to begin producing power in 2027. The project
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