{"id":123325,"date":"2026-02-25T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:12:06","slug":"pittsburgh-based-aluminum-maker-alcoa-looking-to-sell-some-sites-to-data-centers-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123325\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-based aluminum maker Alcoa looking to sell some sites to data centers \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh-based Alcoa is looking to sell some of its sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/aluminium-maker-alcoa-seeks-sell-10-sites-data-centres-2026-02-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/aluminium-maker-alcoa-seeks-sell-10-sites-data-centres-2026-02-24\/\">Reuters reports<\/a> that the aluminum producer plans to sell 10 of its closed or idled sites to the data center industry, according to CEO Bill Oplinger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Aluminum producers face competition for energy from data centers, Reuters says, though the demand creates an opportunity to sell stakes in some sites located near energy sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The first sale could reportedly happen within the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh-based Alcoa is looking to sell some of its sites. Reuters reports that the aluminum producer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57919,34577,57915,57922,57923,57920,57917,57916,57913,57912,57914,57910,57911,57925,57921,57924,73,57918,57909,75,74],"class_list":["post-123325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alco-energy","tag-alcoa","tag-alcoa-aluminum","tag-alcoa-data-center","tag-alcoa-data-center-sell","tag-alcoa-energy","tag-alcoa-pittsburgh","tag-alcoa-site","tag-aluminum-maker","tag-aluminum-manufacturer","tag-aluminum-pittsburgh","tag-aluminum-producer","tag-aluminum-smelter","tag-closed-sites","tag-elcoa-data-center","tag-idled-sites","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-alcoa","tag-pittsburgh-aluminum","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}