CoreWeave, Chirisa Technology Parks and Machine Investment Group announced more than 6 billion dollars of investment to convert a former R.R. Donnelley printing plant in Lancaster city into an AI data center. The initial plan is for 100 megawatts of capacity with room to grow to 300 megawatts, and CoreWeave would be the sole tenant. A second former Donnelley property on Harrisburg Pike is part of the same overall investment.
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Data centers in Lancaster County
We track 2 projects inside Lancaster County and 1 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Lancaster County
This second former R.R. Donnelley printing plant property on Harrisburg Pike is the other site in CoreWeave's more than 6 billion dollar Lancaster data center investment, alongside the Greenfield Road property. Together the two sites total more than two million square feet on about 144 acres. CoreWeave would be the sole tenant of the finished facilities.
Within 25 miles of Lancaster County
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Power bills in Lancaster County
Most of the county is served by PPL Electric.
PPL Electric distribution base rate case settlement raised residential rates 4.9% from July 2026: about $8 to $10 a month on a $184 bill. The order is meant to keep new data centers from pushing their power costs onto residential electric bills by requiring developers to pay for all of their own electricity. This does not change anyone's electric rate directly, but it is meant to stop the cost of new substations and power lines built for data centers from being added to everyone else's bill.
PPL Electric had asked to raise its base distribution rates, the part of the bill that pays for poles, wires and local service rather than the electricity itself, by 356.3 million dollars a year. A settlement filed in March 2026 cut that to 275 million dollars, working out to about a 4.9 percent increase for a typical residential customer, whose bill would rise to roughly 184 dollars a month once new rates take effect July 1, 2026. The settlement also builds in a large load tariff for new data center customers, including minimum 10 year contracts and security deposits, plus an 11 million dollar a year contribution to low income customer assistance programs.
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