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TierPoint Valley Forge

Montgomery County, PA

Source: OpenStreetMap

TierPoint Valley Forge is an operating data center in Montgomery County, PA, operated by TierPoint, LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 9 MW of reported power capacity and a 62,375 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

Real parent
TierPoint, LLC
Operator
TierPoint, LLC
Power
9 MW
Footprint
62,375 sq ft
Utility
Peco Energy Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

TierPoint Valley Forge is an operating colocation data center in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, run by TierPoint, LLC. Public records put its footprint at 62,375 square feet. The site draws power from Peco Energy Co inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.5 mi
Unknown123424
Transmission line
0.5 mi
230 kV line
Municipal water
Served
Audubon Water Company

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

Data-center discussions in Montgomery County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Norristown City Council
Dec 6, 2016 · 2 data-center mentions

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Water use

  • Reported withdrawal5.3K gpd
    2020 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal2.4K gpd
    2018 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal9.4K gpd
    2018 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal6.8K gpd
    2017 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal21.7K gpd
    2017 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal9.2K gpd
    2016 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal29.8K gpd
    2016 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal26.8K gpd
    2015 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal4.9K gpd
    2015 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal20.6K gpd
    2014 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal19.4K gpd
    2014 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal27.3K gpd
    2013 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal11.1K gpd
    2013 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal13K gpd
    2012 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal21.9K gpd
    2012 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal9K gpd
    2011 · groundwater · matched by location (754 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal24.7K gpd
    2011 · groundwater · matched by location (717 m, low confidence) · source

Location-matched records come from state withdrawal reporting, which redacts owner names in the public release. A nearby withdrawal point is circumstantial evidence — the distance and confidence shown are part of the claim.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
PJM RTO (rest of footprint) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's RTO pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost
$1.1M/yr

9 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
71
PM2.5
Moderate
47
O3
Good
14
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Philadelphia), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$73.5K
People of color
11%
Below poverty
5%
Tract population
3,281

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Woodland El Sch in Norristown, is 1.3 mi from this site (428 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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