EQT Corp. (NYSE:EQT) said Tuesday it signed a deal to supply natural gas to power the 4.4 GW facility that will serve the Homer City Energy Campus, a planned 3,200-acre artificial intelligence and high-performance computing data center campus in Pennsylvania currently under construction and anticipated to begin producing power in 2027.

The investment will expand the hyperscaler’s data center footprint across the largest U.S. power grid in the next two years.

Many of Meta’s competitors have multi-gigawatt sites planned, including Oracle, Google, OpenAI, and Amazon. TechRepublic recently reported that Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is building the world’s largest AI data center in Canada.

Meta is building data centers in tents to rapidly scale AI infrastructure and try to catch rivals such as DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.

Lawmakers want to make the commonwealth more attractive to data center developers, and are proposing incentives and new regulations to lure them.

The Japanese telecom giant’s data-center arm is aiming to pour billions into its business to meet rising demand for artificial-intelligence computing and other uses, its chief executive said.

As generative AI accelerates global demand for data centers, Korea is falling behind major economies in both the number of facilities and investment volume, data indicated Monday.