Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, said its energy-focused private equity business has a deal to buy the 620-MW natural gas-fired Hill Top Energy Center in Pennsylvania. The Potomac plant is located in proximity to more than 130 data centers. Read our POWER Primer, “Focus on Data Centers,” and register today to attend our inaugural Data Center POWER eXchange event, scheduled Oct. 28 in Denver, Colorado. Blackstone is the largest data center investor in the world, and recently made major investments in AI companies CoreWeave and DDN. Blackstone officials have said the joint venture would develop power generation including natural gas-fired units.