The joint venture lacks identified customers and gas turbines, and the first power plants likely wouldn't be built until around 2031, depending on data center interest.

Pennsylvania electric and gas utility PPL and Blackstone Infrastructure have formed a joint venture to build natural gas generation stations to power data centers under long-term energy services agreements,

PPL Corp. (NYSE:PPL) is the "biggest winner" from this week's Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, with its joint venture with Blackstone Infrastructure to build gas-fired power plants to serve data centers in Pennsylvania and across the PJM Interconnection,

Blackstone Infrastructure have formed a joint venture to build, own, and operate natural gas combined-cycle generation plants in Pennsylvania specifically designed to serve data center loads through long-term energy service agreements (ESAs).

Blackstone and PPL have created a joint venture that intends to invest in new natural gas power plants in the state.

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Blackstone Infrastructure have formed a joint venture to build, own, and operate natural gas combined-cycle generation plants in Pennsylvania specifically designed to serve data center loads through long-term energy service agreements (ESAs).

PPL and Blackstone form joint venture to build natural gas power plants to meet rising demand from data centers and avoid electricity shortfalls.

The summit was held July 15 at Carnegie Mellon University and featured top executives in energy and AI, global investors, among others.

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