On July 15th, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University hosted a Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit which, behind all its star-powered hype, was essentially a branding exercise. Pennsylvania, apparently tired of being Energy Producer Number Two, is now positioning itself to “dominate” in the field of data center construction, eager to use the over $90 billion it has been promised, for construction of the computers needed to operate AI and crypto-mining operations – as well as the dirty energy facilities it will take to run them.
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Bob’s Path
It all started back about 70 years ago, when Bob Simcox was five. At that time his family lived in Farrandsville a little over a mile from the Donut Hole trailhead. On this particular day, his older brother had left the house to meet up with friends at the trailhead, and Bob didn’t like being left behind.
Rural Progressive Voices 