# Keel Panther Creek Campus

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Keel Panther Creek Campus is a 336-acre site at the Panther Creek waste coal-fired power plant, 4 Dennison Road, Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The plant hosted bitcoin mining until Keel, formerly Bitfarms, decommissioned all U.S. mining in 2026 to build an HPC and AI campus. Keel lists 350 MW of secured capacity. The Carbon Node East plan calls for four data center buildings totaling 618,921 square feet off Industrial Road. Zoning and conditional land development approvals are secured, and environmental permits are pending.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: permitting
- Asset scope: campus
- Location: 4 Dennison Road, Nesquehoning, Carbon County, PA
- Operator: Keel Infrastructure (campus) — https://www.keelinfra.com

## Power and grid context

- Contracted power: 350 MW · reported · campus — Keel lists 350 MW of secured capacity (capacity with executed utility agreements), with expansion to 510 MW.

## Development

- Site area: 336 acres

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: ai_hpc, crypto_mining
- Workloads: AI, HPC
- Operating context: Bitcoin mining at the power plant ended when Keel decommissioned all U.S. mining in 2026 ahead of HPC construction.

## Sources

- [Pennsylvania Environmental Groups Urge the DEP to Deny New Bubble Permit for Cryptomining at Panther Creek - Earthjustice](https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/pennsylvania-environmental-groups-urge-the-dep-to-deny-new-bubble-permit-for-cryptomining-at-panther-creek)
- [FRS Facility Detail Report | Envirofacts | US EPA](https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_dtl.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110030471610)
- [U.S. Census street-address geocode](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/onelineaddress?address=4+Dennison+Road%2C+Nesquehoning%2C+PA%2C+18240&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&format=json)
- [Bitfarms Converts $300M Macquarie Debt Facility to Fund Panther Creek HPC/AI Campus | TheEnergyMag](https://theenergymag.com/news/2025-10-11/bitfarms-macquarie-debt-ai/)
- [Bitfarms Reports Fiscal Year 2025 Results | FinancialContent](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-3-31-bitfarms-reports-fiscal-year-2025-results)
- [Keel Infrastructure Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results | FinancialContent](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/gnwcq-2026-8-10-keel-infrastructure-reports-second-quarter-2026-results)
- [Panther Creek Campus | Keel](https://www.keelinfra.com/campuses/panther-creek)
- [Nesquehoning data center plans need work - Times News Online](https://www.tnonline.com/20260422/nesquehoning-data-center-plans-need-work/)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.
- Map point: approximate U.S. Census street-address geocode.

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