While the world’s tech giants are actively seeking primacy in the artificial intelligence economy, Big Tech seems to agree on one thing: Pennsylvania is a key location on the road to AI dominance, as evidenced by the flood of private investments into the commonwealth to build out data centers and other AI-related infrastructure. 

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It’s one of several efforts to create more oversight of the rapidly-growing sector powering the nation’s artificial intelligence boom.

The March issue of PIOGA Press is now available.

The data center boom isn’t a hypothetical anymore. It’s showing up in the country’s domestic forecast. In its latest Short Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration links rising demand directly to large computing facilities and data center expansion, with natural gas remaining the single largest source of U.S. power generation, holding around 40 percent of the mix in 2026.

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With energy affordability and reliability dominating headlines, state lawmakers peppered Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary Jessica Shirley about the administration’s strategy to speed the addition of new power sources to the electric grid.

The energy statistics in the United States have not changed: Pennsylvania remains the second-largest producer of natural gas in the country. If the Appalachia Basin region (Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia) was its own country, it would be the fourth largest producer in the world.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) final rule repealing the 2009 endangerment finding.

Pennsylvania must act to require industries across the economy to cut — and pay for — climate-warming pollution they release, a group led by prominent state environmental attorneys said in a legal demand to state regulators on Thursday. The coalition wants to compel Pennsylvania’s environmental rule-makers to create a program that puts a price and shrinking cap on allowable greenhouse gas emissions that would apply to a broad swath of pollution sources, including power plants, coal mines, factories and transportation fuels.