Data Center Registry
Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center)
Boyers, Butler County, Pennsylvania · All 13 Iron Mountain sites
Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) is an operating data center in Boyers, Pennsylvania (Butler County), operated by Iron Mountain. The public record puts it at 40 MW planned, 200 acres.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Iron Mountain
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Boyers, Butler County, PA
- Coordinates
- 41.0956, -79.9128 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 40 MW planned
- Land
- 200 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) in Boyers, Butler County, Pennsylvania appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Cooled using a 35-acre underground lake / geothermal cooling system in the former limestone mine; Iron Mountain cites this as the basis of the site's efficiency. No withdrawal or consumption figure is published.
Notes on the record
333,000 sq ft of data center space 220 feet underground in a former limestone mine on a 200-acre campus, about an hour north of Pittsburgh. Operator states 40 MW of total potential capacity; the currently energised load is not published, so the figure is recorded as planned rather than operational. Long-standing colocation/records site rather than an AI buildout, no aiClassification asserted.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Scrubgrass Generating Plant · Kennerdell · Bitfarms Ltd. (Keel Infrastructure Corp.)10 mi · Operating · 1.3 GW
- Nova Energy Natural Gas-Powered Cryptomine (Frenchcreek Township) · Nova Energy LLC24 mi · Operating
- Powder Mills Data Center Campus · Stonebridge Associates28 mi · Proposed · In litigation
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) in Boyers?
Nothing on record as of August 31, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) in Boyers, Butler County, Pennsylvania appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center)?
No lawsuit over Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) appears in the record we track as of August 31, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center), and how big is it?
Iron Mountain is the operator on record. We hold 13 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 40 MW. The site is recorded at 200 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Iron Mountain WPA-1 (Boyers underground data center)," updated August 31, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/iron-mountain-wpa-1-boyers-butler-county-pa.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/iron-mountain-wpa-1-boyers-butler-county-pa, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Iron Mountain, Western Pennsylvania Data Center (WPA-1) · Iron Mountain · retrieved August 31, 2026
- 2.Data Centers in Pennsylvania, Project List & Locations (Iron Mountain WPA-1, Butler County) · Cleanview · retrieved August 31, 2026
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