{"id":285867,"date":"2026-09-14T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:24:18","slug":"alcoa-nears-sale-for-data-center-location-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285867\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoa nears sale for data center location \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/alcoa-corp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcoa Corp.<\/a> is close to a sale of a closed aluminum smelter in upstate New York\u00a0for a data center project. The sale is the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/alcoa-plans-to-sell-data-center.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in what is expected to be up to $1 billion in sales of former assets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">CFO Molly Beerman said the Pittsburgh-based manufacturer had been in talks to sell the closed smelter, known as Messina East in Messina, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Alcoa is \u201cvery close to announcing a deal with a data center developer,\u201d Beerman said during a session at the Jeffries 2026 Global Industrials Conference in New York. The Messina East smelter has been idled since 2014 and is already the site of a data center from North Country Colocation Services since 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">NCCS wants to expand its operations into about 355 acres near its existing site, with two data buildings of about 600,000 square feet each being constructed over the course of about two years. It would take hydroelectric power from the St. Lawrence River and not any natural gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/11\/alcoa-nears-sale-for-data-center-location.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/11\/alcoa-nears-sale-for-data-center-location.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/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":"Alcoa Corp. is close to a sale of a closed aluminum smelter in upstate New York\u00a0for a data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34577,57922,57911,3069,119056,119055,119054,237,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-285867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alcoa","tag-alcoa-data-center","tag-aluminum-smelter","tag-data-center","tag-messina","tag-messina-east","tag-molly-beerman","tag-new-york","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285867","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=285867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}