Civil Municipal Magazine Aug 2023

104 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 8 “We can produce reliable, clean, electric, that doesn’t fluctuate like the grid does, with natural gas power generators. So, data centers, cloud type of technology environment is certainly an opportunity.” Adequate land is not an issue, as the county is rich with wide open spaces, many of them brownfields leftover from previous industries. The Monongahela River is another available resource for an enterprise that might require large amounts of water for operations or transportation. “There’s electric infrastructure on the ground with available industrial sites that are ready to be used. We are ready to be used,” Belding asserts.