Pennsylvania has a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to benefit economically by hosting large-scale data centers and supplying the power and manufacturing the equipment that development needs across the PJM regional grid footprint, a new study found. The report, “Pennsylvania Builds the Cloud: Manufacturing, Energy, and Data Center Development”  was recently released by the Pittsburgh Technology Council and the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies. The study f

A $1.7 billion high-voltage power line project to help the regional electric grid improve reliability and meet rising power demand in other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region is planned to be built through 10 Western and Central Pennsylvania counties. The Kammer-Juniata Project is a 765-kilovolt (kV) line that will span 220 miles from the Kammer substation in northern West Virginia, through Greene, Fayette, and eight other counties to the Juniata substation in Perry County. It

Almost 50 years after ground was broken for the Mon-Fayette Expressway project, construction of several more segments  of the still uncompleted highway between the Mon Valley and Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs is continuing. The expressway project has been talked about since the 1970s as a way to improve the fortunes of struggling Mon Valley communities by making it easier and quicker to get to Pittsburgh. However, it has seen a number of delays as the Pennsylvania Turnpike Com

After more than a year of study, a state government advisory committee has released a report  that examines how artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the global economy and creating concerns about privacy, misuse, and disruption to the workforce in a number of areas. The Joint State Government Commission  was directed by the legislature in 2023 to develop the report, and an advisory committee of 20 legislative, business, academic, and technology leaders met over more t