As $90 billion in AI and energy investments take root, Pennsylvania is rolling out a multipronged strategy to become a national data center powerhouse. We examine how the

CoreWeave's $6 billion investment in Pennsylvania suggests there could be vast promise for AI data centers in a state already leading in energy production.

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector,

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.

Some of the investments promised during the AI and energy summit​ on Tuesday at Carnegie Mellon University included AI data centers, which can require massive amounts of energy to run.

The prediction came after nearly two dozen companies at this week’s Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit announced plans for more than $90 billion in development projects across Pennsylvania.

Lawmakers want to make the commonwealth more attractive to data center developers, and are proposing incentives and new regulations to lure them.