Proposed-site record

Fort Cherry Development District

Fort Cherry is an industrial development district with a developer-described power-generation partnership intended to serve data centers and other high-energy users. The 250-1,000 MW dataset figure remains unclassified and is not confirmed data-center IT load or energized capacity.

Under constructionconfirmedHigh concern

Site Snapshot

Location: McDonald, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Operator / sponsor: Liberty Energy/Imperial Land Corporation
Status / stage: Under construction · under construction
Scale: 250-1000 MW reported; Mega campus (>1,000 MW); 6,000,000 sq ft; 875 acres; expected online 2027

Compute Workload

This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.

Undisclosed / unknownUnknown

No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.

Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.

Data Fields

Source leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.

NDA / secrecyMissing / needs review

Public moneySource lead attached

imperialland.com Data Center Dynamics centerforcoalfieldjustice.org

WaterSource lead attached

imperialland.com Data Center Dynamics centerforcoalfieldjustice.org

PowerSource lead attached

imperialland.com Data Center Dynamics centerforcoalfieldjustice.org

Public Money

Source dataset project_cost field reports $750 million; public funding records still need local review.

Source links for this fieldimperialland.comFort Cherry Development District Data Center DynamicsLiberty Energy Range Resources Ilc To Build Gas Plant For Data Centers In Pennsylvania centerforcoalfieldjustice.orgcenterforcoalfieldjustice.org source Imperial Land CorporationFort Cherry Development District

Water

Source review: the developer describes a closed-loop cooling concept, but the reviewed Fort Cherry materials disclose no water source, withdrawal permit, consumption quantity, or wastewater capacity.

Power

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Imperial Land describes a strategic alliance supporting a power-generation facility for data centers and other high-energy users; county economic-development material identifies Liberty Energy and Range Resources as partners. The dataset's 250-1,000 MW remains unclassified project/power context, not confirmed generation nameplate, requested, approved, energized, or data-center IT-load capacity.

Bloom / Fuel Cells

No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.

NDA / Secrecy

No NDA reported

Missing NDA / secrecyFields with source leads: Public money, Water, Power

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Sources and Leads

These links are the current public trail for this record. Treat broad dataset links as leads; local documents and reporting carry more weight.

imperialland.comFort Cherry Development District Data Center DynamicsLiberty Energy Range Resources Ilc To Build Gas Plant For Data Centers In Pennsylvania centerforcoalfieldjustice.orgcenterforcoalfieldjustice.org source Imperial Land CorporationFort Cherry Development District Washington County Economic DevelopmentWashington County development profile FracTracker AllianceOpen U.S. Data Centers Tracker ArcGIS source rowFort Cherry Development District dataset attributes