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Never heard this before about Pittsburgh...
Abundant energy, yeah, they’ve got hundreds of years of oil and natural gas over there, but the last regime was too stupid to use it with the easy infrastructure already there.Pittsburgh Will Be Transformed Into "AI Hub Of World" With $75 Billion Investment | ZeroHedge
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LionDeNittany
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There are several other cities wirh all of these things.
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Agreed. Austin TX has cashed in on various tech endeavors, even before Dell. Motorola, I believe. In and around my town, there are Lucid, Intel, and Taiwan Semiconductor plants. There's enough to go around. I'm not from anywhere near Pittsburgh, but PA has done little to invest in tech due to its tradition of politics and inaction. So, I hope things work out.
Wilma Flintstone
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True, but are communities willing to embrace it? That's the real question. Here data centers are being met with resistance. You'd think they were building a dump.
2 proposed billion-dollar data centers near Ann Arbor face fierce opposition: What to know
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbo...rbor-face-fierce-opposition-what-to-know.html
The Spin Meister
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Microsoft already announced a huge deal gives open Three Mile Island nuke plant snc build a massive data center there
There is also a an AI/data center along with a huge nat gas co-generation plant at Homer City, just north of Pittsburgh.
There is also a an AI/data center along with a huge nat gas co-generation plant at Homer City, just north of Pittsburgh.
The Spin Meister
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They are being fought because they consume huge quantities of energy and are sldo noisy if you live near one. They require massive air conditioning to operate as the chips generate tons of heat.
The other issue is that they create very few jobs. But local municipalities love them because they pay a lot of local taxes but create little expenses like new roads, sewer, water, schools.
The Spin Meister
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Massive summit in Pittsburgh today. Trump, four cabinet members, over 60 of the biggest tech and energy companies
They do take a lot of energy. Google is actually considering installing nuclear power generators (SMR's - small modular reactors) at data center sites.
Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/google-inks-deal-to-develop-1-8-gw-of-advanced-nuclear-power/
They also consume a lot of water which is a precious resource.
The data center market is booming right now. One product we make is up like 5X this year because it's used in data centers.
AnyNameYouWish
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I don't like this development.
My kid has Carnegie Mellon as his top target ... and he's focused on AI.
I'm sorta trying to steer him toward better areas ... MIT, Stanford (he's already done some AI stuff with them), etc.
But Pittsburgh's always been a trash heap I've avoided, despite growing up in PA. They can't even figure out how to say "to be."
Maybe I can funnel him this news tidbit, and Trump's association with this project may be enough to sour him on CM.
My kid has Carnegie Mellon as his top target ... and he's focused on AI.
I'm sorta trying to steer him toward better areas ... MIT, Stanford (he's already done some AI stuff with them), etc.
But Pittsburgh's always been a trash heap I've avoided, despite growing up in PA. They can't even figure out how to say "to be."
Maybe I can funnel him this news tidbit, and Trump's association with this project may be enough to sour him on CM.
So, is he heading into a High Tech Studies program?
AnyNameYouWish
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Huh? He's a Comp Sci kid. He's going to focus on AI. At least, that's the plan.
Pittsburgh is poised to be at the heart of America’s second Industrial Revolution
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opini...art-of-americas-second-industrial-revolution/
PITTSBURGH — It was the site of America’s first industrial revolution. Now it’s prepared to usher in a second one, when the country’s leaders in innovation, technology, energy and artificial intelligence meet at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday for the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit.
President Trump, in an interview with me ahead of the summit, said the event is going to “open the eyes of a lot of people of what is about to be unleashed in Pennsylvania.”
US Sen. David McCormick, the Pittsburgh Republican who assembled the July 15 event, said the energy and AI summit will feature Trump, several cabinet members, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Big Tech leaders from OpenAI and Meta as well as energy leaders from all over the country, including natural gas powerhouse EQT’s Toby Rice.
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What happens to these data centers when they are obsolete? The Chinese have already proven that you can do AI without data centers, and there's a few US companies that are doing the same.
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