The PPL-Blackstone joint venture secured 5 gigawatts of gas turbines for Pennsylvania data centers.

The joint venture between PPL and Blackstone secured 5 gigawatts of gas-turbine capacity for data-center projects in Pennsylvania. The figure refers to generation equipment capacity rather than data-center IT load, accelerator capacity, or completed electricity production.

PPL President and CEO Vincent Sorgi said he expected bilateral contracting to be the principal pathway for adding generation in the region. His comments came as PJM Interconnection planned a backstop reliability auction for late September.

The source did not disclose turbine manufacturers, individual unit counts, fuel-supply arrangements, project sites, construction dates, customer contracts, or commissioning schedules. Securing turbines therefore should not be conflated with having 5 gigawatts of operational generation or completed data centers.